Early Retirement Extreme

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

Why this early retirement blog continuously talks about cycling and cooking?

Published in October 5th, 2024
Posted by in budgeting, cost of living, financial independence
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Financial independence comes from the combination of having enough money and spending sufficiently little so that interest from the former covers the expenses of the later. The biggest sources of personal expenses are generally Children Housing Transport Food Taxes Reducing expenses in these areas will make a much larger impact that token efforts such as […]

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What early retirement means when you’re too young to retire

Published in May 4th, 2024
Posted by in financial independence, Work
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Note: In this post I discussed some of the aspects about my former career while I was still working. One of my problems was “lack of adequate replacement”. Like some people have pointed out, most people need something to do. However, I would point out that this does not need to be a job. It […]

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Can you wait, think, and fast?

Published in December 22nd, 2023
Posted by in financial independence, motivation
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A quote that is entirely relevant to financial independence: “His goal attracts him, because he doesn’t let anything enter his soul which might oppose the goal. This is what Siddhartha has learned among the Samanas. This is what fools call magic and of which they think it would be effected by means of the daemons. […]

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