Early Retirement Extreme

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

Day 18: Join a challenge

Published in April 15th, 2009
Posted by in Early Retirement, Makeover, Strategy
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Some people like challenges and if so, adopting a challenge is a good way to stay motivated. Just think of the 100 push up challenge (I’m looking at you Syd 😀 ), the buy nothing for a year challenge, the no-car challenge, the X dollar a month food challenge, the no impact challenge, and so […]

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Day 17: Maintaining and repairing things

Published in April 14th, 2009
Posted by in How to, Makeover, Strategy
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Back by popular request, the 30 day Makeover continues … at least as long as I can keep it going. As I have explained before, it mostly comes down to housing, transportation, and food. There are really no magic tricks other than discovering that you will be just as happy — but probably more motivated […]

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Day 16: The stuff you actually keep and use

Published in January 20th, 2009
Posted by in Early Retirement, Makeover, Strategy
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One of my core philosophies is to maximize the quality of things I spend a lot of time with/in/on and minimize the quantity of things I do not spend a lot of time with/in/on. This way the reduction in quantity pays for the more expensive quality. This works well because in our society, quality is […]

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