Early Retirement Extreme Forums

It for sure is a transition period. It comes with insecurity. It's nice that you have a very nice buffer of money to help you make that jump. Plus all your other buffers of talents, experiences, diplomas, knowledge, relationships, etc. As a Dutch person, I'm sad to see you go. I'm sure you were a ne...

Did we already add that sometimes you can get medication cheaper in a different country than in the US? This could also be worthwhile to consider, although it might be difficult for THIS specific medication as it could be hard or illegal to move large amounts of it across borders. Points of attentio...

Perhaps move this last part of the discussion to a fresh discussion, as it's more about how to test for character traits / neurodiversity than about how to pay for your ADHD meds and/or reduce the cost of ADHD meds?

So close to the $4 million! But you'll get there, no doubt.

Do you have a favorite dining out experience that you can tell us about? A favorite chef, or favorite restaurant?

Yup. In the Netherlands, 50% of inhabitants of long term care homes die within 2 years of entering such a home, 80% die within 4 years. It's (hopefully!) not the best part of your life, so maybe we should be glad that generally it doesn't last long.

Hi comandante... I'm sorry to hear about your breakup, at the Dutch meetup she seemed like a nice lady. But it is true, no matter how nice people are, sometimes they don't belong together, which often is a very sad thing to discover. If you can, send her my regards and best wishes. You also get my b...

I would experiment next by washing clothes just with your hands (or feet). The enzymes in the washing powder would probably eat away at your dead skin cells. If you do it twice a year, I wouldn't bother with protective gloves, but if you do it every week you might want to wear gloves indeed, especia...

Ah yeah, I'm sure when the goddess descents from the heavens to end all of our misery, she will loudly blast either Gregorian chants or Reign in blood by Slayer. Or maybe she will just play the sound of our automatic coffee grinder, because that is also a rather chilling sound. My grandfather, who w...

I'd avoid nicotine at all costs, due to its addictive quality, price, and increased risk of not only cancer but also cardiovascular disease. I wanted to add that some people with ADHD function well by using lisdexamphetamine on days when it's important to be able to work and/or study effectively, an...

So, tonight I finished collecting the paperwork/evidence for our income taxes; now the accountant will create a concept of how he wants to file for us and then we can approve that concept (or have it changed). One can file the tax "paper"work on March 1st here, but it took me a few more we...

Yup. What I learned when I was looking for my current house is that there will be new properties on the market, and there will be ones that will be just as good or better than the one that has just passed you by. So who knows what will come on the market next! (And yes, good to be prepared for it!)....

Wellllll.... let me just wish you a happy birthday, frugaldoc. With many more happy years to come

Keep us posted on whether you extend this assignment or do something else. Are there perhaps yet other options for you, or could they maybe open up over the next months?

Personally it's state pension + work pension + individual retirement account + regular investments/savings + government benefits for the disabled + government retirement home + hospice.
Potentially euthanasia as it is legal here under certain circumstances (like with a painful terminal disease).

Sounds lovely to be able to live in Spain for a while. I would also rent, at the very least for a year or so, before considering to buy.

Maybe you can start a choir or singing group at the ship, frugaldoc? Maybe there's even someone around who has some official training in music to guide the group? We're a local women's choir (because too few men would join) that sings "easy" pop songs from say the 1970s onward. We generall...

If you quit when you have 25 times your expenses, you are very likely to never run out of money, due to a variety of reasons: 1. It is likely that a SWR of 4% turns out to be too safe for your specific date of quitting. 4% is still safe under very bad market conditions, most people will not retire a...

Thanks! So far for this month I have tried one new recipe. In the supermarket one can buy boxes that contain all the ingredients for one specific meal. So I bought a "traybake" veggie meal and made it, and it was surprisingly good. Yeah! Now I want to try to replicate that by myself. Buy t...

Wow, indeed!

I'm looking forward to your updates

Some people have Damocles' sword menacingly above their heads, you have Okinawa's knife tantalizingly in front of you to make you do well over the year. Speaking of carrots and sticks, you have already jumped on that rower by now, haven't you?

Hello Rouva, good to read another update from you. Ah, so in my country also some houses are on the government's or local government's land, and if so, the house owners need to pay an annual rent bill to the government. Sometimes for a big sum you can pay rent in one go for for example 10 or 30 year...