Congratulations! I’m a newcomer to your blog but have spent a good amount of time here lately. I really appreciate all you’ve written, you’re sharing some great information. Thanks and happy birthday!!

Happy Birthday! I never RSSd or anything, but I have faithfully followed your blog for a year and a half. I think when I started you had 300 readers on your feedburner. Congrats!

I totally agree with this and it’s one of the major reasons this is in my top 3 blogs: “but I have learned a lot from comments and I am continuously surprised how few instances of negativity I have seen”

I think of this blog a little like being a hockey fan. It’s not the most popular sport, but it’s kinda cool being in on something that is different than what the majority of people are doing.

Happy Blogaversary to you! I don’t always agree with what is written on the blog but I look forward to reading it nontheless. Keep up the good work!

Congratulations Jacob on making it 2 years, I have to smile sometimes at the stuff you write, it is so nice to see someone else who understands the value of “fixing” stuff and derives satisfaction from it.
Might not always agree with all you write, but your viewpoint is interesting nonetheless!
Keep it up and I’m sure we’ll keep enjoying!

Congrats, Jacob. I wish I had found this blog last year as I was putting together the pieces and the schedule for my retirement about one year ago. It would have been fun going through it with someone who had just begun his early retirement.

And thanks for including my story as a guest post in your blog a few weeks ago.

Happy 2 Years!

I subscribe to your posts via email but come back to the site regularly to read the comments. I do not usually comment because there is no need. You and your readers are very intelligent!

Your blog is an amazing daily reminder of why I am working so hard right now. People look at me like I am crazy when I talk about not wanting to ‘work’ in the way that others define it, so I try not to talk about it. Just plug away day after day adding to that savings account.

You keep me sane Jacob. Thank you.

I found your blog when my son was born. I remeber he would not sleep so I would stay up all night reading your posts. He is 16 mongths now. It is interesting how much your blog and my son has change my life in those 16 months. Since reading ERE I manged to pay off my student loan of $27000 and save $14500 for early retirement. I also started reading about investing and took my money out of a mutal fund where the MER was 3%.
My wife and I thought numerous of times of moving out of town. However, the thought of owning a second car and not being able to walk to work or for groceries has made us stay. So thanks for your posts. I am looking forward to the book. I would also like to read the lost post? on Investing for early retirement part 2.

Hi Jacob, I’ve long forgotten how I stumbled on your blog, but it has become an enduring favourite of mine for your thoughtful posts and your extreme approach. You continue to be an inspiration to me by proving that early retirement is possible if one is extreme enough. Happy Birthday 🙂

Congratulations, Jacob. I cannot remember how I disovered your blog, but I check it daily and read almost every post with avidity. Yesterday, I “celebrated” the 8th anniversary of the most recent incarnation of my wage slavery. With that depressing fact and your insightful words operating synergistically, I am highly motivated to retire as early as possible. And to live as independently and sustainably as I can within the consumerist landscape. Keep sharing your wisdom.

Happy Birthday blog! I just found your blog a few weeks ago and I am so grateful!

I am slowly going through the steps. I have downsized our home and I can already feel a positive difference. I cannot believe how hard it has been to change our terrible habits/attitudes etc on credit cards and the like. I need blogs like yours to keep me on my toes….thanks again!

Best blog on the internet.

Congrats!! I found your blog through Frugal Bachelor (who has disappeared)…and I must say yours is probably the only one that catches my attention 100%! I love reading your posts! I’ve always been a saver, but not necessarily frugal and you have inspired me to change in more ways, so I am saving more b/c of you!! You have a great writing style which is why I keep coming back for more and you also have very posts. Keep it up! I especially liked your recommended books section..I’ve read some of those already:)

Thank you, Jacob, for this wonderful blog! Best blog on the internet (as one of the commenters pointed out), hands down. I discovered your blog in August this year and it was a complete eye opener. I must humbly admit that this is the ONE and ONLY blog out there that I read and re-read every single post you wrote. I even printed-out some posts to have them handy:) Thank you for your deep insights and pointing out the “obvious” that is not obvious for many anymore. By reading your blog I finally realized that being several sigmas off the mean can actually be a huge advantage:) Please, finish the book, I will be the first one to buy it. Your daily reader, AJ.

I can only add to the accolades.

I found your blog via a reader’s comment on either TSD or GRS. Now I read this and not those! I’m only bummed I’m not in my 20s so I can emmulate your path, but I feel much support for my lifestyle when I read your blog. Thanks for sharing your life with the world! And Happy Blog B-Day! Let’s drive to the pizza place and buy you gifts! Just kidding…haha.

Great job. Now take the next step, set up an RV community for people to join you to live in a frugal community. Or at least hold a ERE conference at a convention center (I mean free space in a park or something).

Congratulations Jacob! I am one of the inspired ones. I am one of those who owe a lot to you and the blog for the way I look at money and life. Keep up the good work! Viva Jacob! Viva ERE!

Hi Jacob, and Happy 2nd Birthday of your blog! I like reading your posts; they are well-written, creative, and analytical, and you don’t pull many punches… and half of your posts are better-expressed versions of some of my rants 🙂
It’s also nostalgic and escapist reading for me: I lived (a bit too) frugally and individualistically as a student and also had extreme early retirement plans, but now with kids, my priority is to take care of them, so the hobo life is no longer responsible. I do miss it sometimes though. Kids have also moved the focus from me to them and, weirdly, to the rest of the world. It no longer seems appropriate, for this stage of life, to think of self-improvement, travels, personal happiness, etc.; instead, I dream of improving the world in measurable ways.
Although my maths research might last a few centuries, I doubt that its accumulated impact will be worth much, maybe more than most jobs but still not substantial. My teaching and industrial consulting has much more immediate impact but it still doesn’t feel like much. In contrast, your blog and other activities are improving the world measurably, and you’re really making a difference. It’s a good job you’re doing here, and you do it well! Your example tempts me dangerously to find better ways in which to help improve the world… you have any ideas on how a maths researcher could do good?
Anyway, congratulations, and well done. I wish you lots of energy and good ideas for the next two years!

Jacob,

Congratulations with your work, and thanks for doing this!

I think there’s more than enough material on this site for anyone to get going. What I look forward to most of all is how you’ll live life in the years to come. Keep us posted!

Congratulations on your blog Jacob, certainly one of the best on the internet, no doubt about it.

I first visited it by searching something related to resource depletion and peak oil. I was already a fan of frugal living at 23 years of age and fully committed to not live the rat race for more then 6-8 years.

I wished you posted more about resource depletion and related investments, because you seem to know way more then this blog suggests.

(sorry for weird english)

Congrats Jacob! You really have made me explore my own limits of frugality. I think the biggest effect you’ve had on me is downsizing and de-cluttering my life. I now hate having too much stuff, and gladly take on chores that have, as a side-effect, a reduction in the amount of stuff I own.

I fear I may have been responsible for one of your two negative comments here. I meant it as lighthearted ribbing, but now that I re-read my comments there, they just seem mean, so I’d like to apologize if my comments offended anyone.