Early Retirement Extreme

— a combination of simple living, anticonsumerism, DIY ethics, self-reliance, resilience, and applied capitalism

What’s holding you back from your financial dreams?

Published in October 4th, 2013
Posted by in Early Retirement, Finance
68 Comments

Certain things I hear here and there leads me to believe that many have their heart in the right place and want to achieve their financial goals while at the same time having their brain in the wrong place spending more on certain categories than they really want to. Now worries, I’m here to fix […]

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The three methods of finance, when enough is enough

Published in September 30th, 2013
Posted by in Early Retirement, Finance, Work
37 Comments

There are three methods of paying for stuff. Some work and pay as they go. Some borrow and pay interest. And other live off the interest. I will try to make this as simple as possible. The three ways look like this You can pay as you go. You save money and then you spend […]

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Access to credit: Why the young generation should avoid it

Published in September 25th, 2013
Posted by in Finance
20 Comments

Once again I find myself compelled to climb my heavily used soap box (which I of course got for free). I just read this piece on CNBC which describes a blogging chain reaction following the Federal Reserves decision to spend $200 billion of the tax payers money to make it easier to extend consumer loans, […]

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