Early Retirement Extreme

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

Some observations after 1 year of blogging

Published in December 3rd, 2008
Posted by in Personal, Timely
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I started blogging on 12-04-2008, so by my reckoning I have been blogging for exactly one year today. For those of you that are keeping score and computing batting averages, here are my stats 327 posts 2076 total comments 137,823 total unique visits 316,000 total page views 913 subscribers Why if only I had a […]

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It’s buy nothing day today.

Published in November 29th, 2008
Posted by in Early Retirement, Finance, Timely
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– So are you going shopping today? – Nah, I’m going to stay at home and read my book. – What book could be more fun than shopping? – My bank book! Anyone else not joining the mayhem today? Originally posted 2008-11-28 04:39:27.

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The price of an Olympian body

Published in November 17th, 2008
Posted by in Health, Personal, Timely
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I just came across a New York photo series of Olympians along with their stats and measurements. I must say this was very surprising, because it turns out they are not superhuman but just ordinary athletes. I found it interesting to compare myself to these guys, so here’s me: Jacob, inline hockey center forward, clubbeller, […]

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