Okay, so here’s a little known fact about me. I used to be a competitive swimmer. Not exactly Mr Phelps et al., but I did spend 9 hours a week training in the water, I did smell of chlorine at all times, and I did participate in a few regional championships. My swimming career lasted [...]
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Learn how you can use the CSRS Voluntary Contributions program to put away money for retirement. You can also transfer CSRS VCP to an IRA or Roth IRA, find out how.As I have mentioned before extreme early retirement (<35) does not happen due to a prudent investment plan. It happens either by following an extreme savings plan or by being lucky (rich uncle, lottery, penny stocks, real estate, …). These reason is that the time it takes to reach financial independence, around 5 years, is [...]Well, there you go. I have no control over what amazon does with the retail price. It’s within their prerogative to reduce the price to increase their income. This may or may not last. Needless to say it’s hard for me to compete with that in terms of discounts. As far as I can compute [...]
Do you know where to retire in British Columbia? Let an expert help you decide.Any questions?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 [...]As someone who has lent out over $12,000 over the past 1.5 years (but is now completely divested again, see note below) here is what I prefer to see in a loan request before I bid. Be accountable! The original idea with peer to peer lending was that a group of people (like a knitting [...]Head over to read the post and the discussion. Also read the latest book review from Jeremy M. Day. Don’t forget the Seattle meetup this Sunday if you’re in the neighborhood.I know a substantial fraction are waiting for the ERE book to appear in the library. Keep in mind that getting a book into a library is a long and involved process which usually involves several middle distributors. Librarians pour over catalogs and decide what they think their patrons want to read and order accordingly. [...]The following was written as a response by “Wild” to a question in the forums about saving too much. I thought it was brilliantly put and capable of standing on its own as a blog post. I therefore asked if I could post it here and got the affirmative. I found Jacob’s book to be [...]According to google I am now the second highest ranked authority on extreme early retirement. I suppose this comes about because I have a “google ranking” of 4 which again comes about because I have yet to bother with monetizing this site as it would require advertising it in the local paper for 4 weeks [...]
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