Early Retirement Extreme

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

Modified Navy Showers

Published in December 30th, 2021
Posted by in household
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According to wiki, a normal ten minute shower uses as much as 60 gallons of water. This means that the water tank of an boat or an RV(*) will be exhausted after a single shower. Therefore we’ll have to adopt to some kind of Navy shower. The thing I don’t like about Navy showers is […]

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Our new small kitchen

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