Early Retirement Extreme

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

Tests, cars, and travel

Published in October 17th, 2009
Posted by in Personal, Transportation
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This has been a stressful week for me, probably the most stressful since I retired from my career half a year ago. This Wednesday I tested for Jiho in Shinkendo (passed) and today I tested to get my ham radio Technician Class license (passed (*)). On Monday I am flying across the pond [to Europe]. […]

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How to spend very little money

Published in June 9th, 2009
Posted by in Early Retirement, Finance, How to, Personal, Transportation
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Here is a list of some of the things I/we do… We have a charcoal grill. We got it on freecycle. Once it dies, we’ll get another one—California is abundant in superfluous grills and entertainment centers; if you got the carpentry skills, you could probably build a house out of a week’s worth of discarded […]

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What’s the most economically inefficient gadget you own?

Published in March 12th, 2009
Posted by in Early Retirement, Finance, Personal, Philosophy, Transportation
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It seems to make that a large fraction of our economy, this economy, is dedicated to replacing cheap and simple solutions with expensive and complicated solutions. While this is so pervasive that it sometimes define our way of life e.g. arranging our living and work spaces so they are separate making us spend an hour […]

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