Early Retirement Extreme

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

I’m not sure I have the guts to rely on a job for income

Published in December 1st, 2011
Posted by in Finance, Philosophy, Work
21 Comments

Imagine for a second that you have $250,000 in the bank; in fact, imagine that everybody through some miracle started with that amount and that you withdrew $10,000 annually which was more than enough to live on… that last part may be hard to imagine for those who are used to consumerism, but for the […]

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Making money and keeping score

Published in November 5th, 2011
Posted by in Book, Philosophy, Work
35 Comments

The following question comes up often enough that I think it’s time to devote a blog post to the topic. It goes something like this: If you’re really retired, why are you still trying to make money? Actually, I was going to write the question in a somewhat more nuanced way, but I think this […]

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I’d rather be wealthy than rich

Published in September 26th, 2011
Posted by in Early Retirement, Finance, Work
16 Comments

Some definitions: Being rich is having money. Being wealthy is having time. Typically Being rich means that you have to work for your money. Being wealthy means that you simply sit around and money comes to you. Anyone who wants to be rich has to work very hard typically by pursuing either some kind of […]

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