Early Retirement Extreme

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

Attaining the right weight

Published in April 21st, 2021
Posted by in Health, How to
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The kettlebell has been accredited with increasing the weight of underweight people and decreasing the weight of overweight people. This suggests that there is a right weight. For all around human challenges, that is, not extremes like bodybuilding which produces overheavy athletes or marathon running which produces underheavy athletes, that perform intensive work, I do […]

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Keeping warm during winter

Published in April 20th, 2021
Posted by in Health, How to, Strategy
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I was originally going to use “Winter heating” for the title of this post, but then I realized that, perhaps like many other things, this misses the main point. At its essence, the problem is cold. The solution is to stay warm. How do we accomplish this. There are two variables. The first one is […]

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Protecting the RV against rain

Published in April 14th, 2021
Posted by in How to, Strategy
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Living in an RV I hate rain. I do not know if this is the case for all RVs, but our RV has a rubber roof, which forms a tight skin much like a drum. Now imagine like inside a drum when it rains on it. Fortunately, it only rains a couple of weeks a […]

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