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- Fri Mar 15, 2024 8:20 pm
- Forum: Resources & Recommended Reading
- Topic: "How to Drop Out"
- Replies: 125
- Views: 12635
Re: "How to Drop Out"
Sorry. Catching up here, so this is not responsive to the latest. I've always thought of "FI leading to SI" or "dropping out" as a first world privilege. You can see it in the data of household density (poor = higher, probably multi-generational; rich = low, probably limited to o...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 2:55 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Just Gravy
- Replies: 287
- Views: 85325
Re: Just Gravy
We got this, babe.
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 3:50 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Nomadic-ERE Year 5 - Wanderlust Prevails
- Replies: 1166
- Views: 272480
Re: Nomadic-ERE Year 5 - Wanderlust Prevails
Hey, delay. Thanks for popping in, it's nice to know someone's reading these sporadic updates. Sometimes I feel like I don't have too much to contribute here with my current trajectory. Here I must vehemently (vehemently) disagree. So many people treat FIRE as the end, when in reality it is the beg...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 11:31 am
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: ERE or Semi-ERE past Age 65
- Replies: 122
- Views: 5868
Re: ERE or Semi-ERE past Age 65
@candide - The insurers have modeled the boomers, I'm sure. Entire consulting practices specialize in analyzing scenarios like these, which then become standard products licensed by all the major insurers. If there is a mistake, it's likely impacting the full industry. This is when regulatory captu...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 11:26 am
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: ERE or Semi-ERE past Age 65
- Replies: 122
- Views: 5868
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 1:25 pm
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: ERE or Semi-ERE past Age 65
- Replies: 122
- Views: 5868
Re: ERE or Semi-ERE past Age 65
Yeah. I fully support social capital for picking up someone’s mail or cooking them dinner if they broke a hip. I’m not talking about that. I’m talking about when someone’s needs outpace their loved ones’ capabilities. See, e.g., @hristo’s experience with hristo’s father trying to care for his wife. ...
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 12:35 pm
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: ERE or Semi-ERE past Age 65
- Replies: 122
- Views: 5868
Re: ERE or Semi-ERE past Age 65
I thought about this more and I think for me, ending up in a LTC facility would be a personal failure. I think it's a mistake to rely only on monetary capital and not social or other forms of capital. I also think that having no financial plan or wishing this part of life and our modern solution to...
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 10:58 pm
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: ERE or Semi-ERE past Age 65
- Replies: 122
- Views: 5868
Re: ERE or Semi-ERE past Age 65
I am neither ERE/semi-ERE nor past the age of 65, but I have begun thinking of this topic, in some part due to my parents' advancing age, and so I offer some thoughts from observing them: 1) My parents are frugal. They have a 7-figure kitty, but they live off of social security alone and have for ab...
- Mon Feb 05, 2024 5:25 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: What I Spend
- Replies: 903
- Views: 195801
- Mon Feb 05, 2024 12:55 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Suomalaisen Päiväkirja
- Replies: 735
- Views: 176963
Slow Down and Degrow
https://grist.org/economics/slow-down-do-less-a-qa-with-the-author-who-introduced-degrowth-to-a-mass-audience/?ref=thebrowser.com Degrowth is about abandoning GDP [gross domestic product] as the single measure of our progress. Degrowth is also about reducing what is unnecessary. GDP can be increased...
- Sun Feb 04, 2024 11:55 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Suomalaisen Päiväkirja
- Replies: 735
- Views: 176963
Re: Suomalaisen Päiväkirja
@aspirant will pm you. Went out to celebrate a friend's end of dry January on Friday night. After the bar, we were driving past another friend's house and decided to see if he was home. Turns out he was drinking with some neighbors in the basement, so after round 2 ... I had a shitty hangover on Sat...
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 1:49 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Suomalaisen Päiväkirja
- Replies: 735
- Views: 176963
Re: Suomalaisen Päiväkirja
@7 cranky and man seem to go hand in hand, particularly where children (regardless of whose) are involved. Perhaps it has something to do with physiological changes not being too prominent in men as you speculated above. I did read something about baby pheromones impacting new fathers. Maybe it was ...
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 9:22 pm
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: How to Be More Agentic
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1359
Re: How to Be More Agentic
I think you're talking about The Secret
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 3:57 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Suomalaisen Päiväkirja
- Replies: 735
- Views: 176963
On Zen Gardens
The other day, @gravy and I went to her mom's house to help move some plants around after the recent freeze receded. She lives in a townhome(?) I guess it's called in America (rivitalo in Finland), where you have like a row of homes that share side walls or at least it looks like from the front that...
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 1:03 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: ffj's Early Retirement (round 2)
- Replies: 227
- Views: 59877
Re: ffj's Early Retirement (round 2)
I don't need the money but I need purpose in life and a reason to leave my house and mingle with other people. Has this caused you to reflect on your early retirement? Any lessons learned or "what I wish I'd known" or anything like that? Or would you still do things when and how you did t...
- Sun Jan 28, 2024 10:11 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: A Journey of Mindfulness--the Remaking of Life in Midstream.
- Replies: 1337
- Views: 290927
- Sun Jan 28, 2024 8:37 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: A Journey of Mindfulness--the Remaking of Life in Midstream.
- Replies: 1337
- Views: 290927
Re: A Journey of Mindfulness--the Remaking of Life in Midstream.
Haha. All these dating books seem to miss the point that it's not about being a certain way to the breadth of the opposite (or same) sex. It's about being a certain way to a certain person and vice versa. You can't "game" it or any of that dumb shit. You can only roulette wheel it until yo...
- Fri Jan 26, 2024 2:20 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: A Journey of Mindfulness--the Remaking of Life in Midstream.
- Replies: 1337
- Views: 290927
Re: A Journey of Mindfulness--the Remaking of Life in Midstream.
Nope, can't do it because there's nothing in IDave's initial new post that I can respond to in my relaxed feminine energy. That's how you know it's genuine. :lol: J/k. I'm just teasing you two. Sorry for the hijack @iD. Love how you've designed your life. Carry on and please keep checking in here f...
- Fri Jan 26, 2024 12:02 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: A Journey of Mindfulness--the Remaking of Life in Midstream.
- Replies: 1337
- Views: 290927
- Thu Jan 25, 2024 10:45 am
- Forum: Work & Education
- Topic: Making the most out of university
- Replies: 46
- Views: 3506