Early Retirement Extreme

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

How we eat

Published in May 19th, 2024
Posted by in household
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A reader asked me how I combine the warrior diet with extreme frugality. The simple answer is that I don’t. I don’t follow the warrior diet to the letter, nor am I nearly as frugal with the food budget as I used to be (less than $200 per month for two people in NorCal is […]

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Our new small kitchen

Published in September 27th, 2013
Posted by in household, Timely
13 Comments

In the previous post I introduced our new 289 sqft home. We, that is to say, I have slowly begun prospecting the shelf and cupboard space. DW prefers to wait until the RV gets serviced next week, but I can’t wait. As mentioned in the post linked above, we have everything a normal “foundation” house […]

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Early Retirement Extreme’s budget

Published in January 21st, 2008
Posted by in budgeting, household, Personal, Timely
37 Comments

I just went over the budget again just to give you an idea of where we’re at. In 2007, we had a combined income of $87k, a 12% tax rate, and living costs of $24k leaving $52k for frivolous stock purchases, etc. Being a few sigma off the mean (but I do know people — […]

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