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"Water water everywhere, but not a drop to spare", as they say. Given the concerning increase in water shortages around the world, including countries like Australia (where I'm from) I've been investigating ways of collecting drinking water off-the-grid. First there are solar stills which look cheap...

Hi all, I'm a little ashamed to admit that I know little or nothing about car repair or maintenance. Apart from changing oil or replacing a tire (and even those I'd probably have to Google a bit for), I'd be practically useless if faced with a broken down car or van. For those of you who have such s...

chenda wrote: ↑

Tue May 15, 2018 4:58 pm

Accepting that there are certain things we can't fully know or understand, at least in this life.

Agree with this! I'd even prefer to enjoy and revel in the mystery.

Due to life circumstances, it happens that I have my money in two countries at once: 1) An investment platform and a high-interest savings account in Australia 2) A current account in the UK Most of my live savings are in Australia (1). But I'm currently working in the UK and putting the earnings fr...

Great to see another person join the movement. I'm also from Australia (though currently living abroad).

I'll check our your blog.

Thanks for the inspiration and best luck on your journey.

Good on ya, mate!

Gilberto de Piento wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 19, 2018 10:31 am

6) Produce reality TV show. Be sure to include plot lines like "who ate all the lentils?"

I laughed, but actually seriously, this could make for a nice Netflix mini-series! Especially with the extreme saving aspect of it!

This is sort of like the extreme version of the tiny house village movement https://www.aarp.org/home-family/friends-family/info-2018/tiny-home-village-fd.html Looks interesting. I'd really like if the messiness could be solved in clean, consistent ways, kind of like how Ikea makes furniture-shoppi...

Yes, if you can find them and keep them. (4) provides some stability, but what do you do when people want to move out? Can you attract new people fast enough? How do you handle vacancies? Practically speaking, there's the issue of leasing for multiple people. Who is on the contract? Other people ha...

Great work on achieving your financial freedom. Still working towards mine, but getting very close now. Will be most satisfying when the time comes.

Hi everyone, I wanted to propose an experiment: an ERE Share House. How this would work is: 1) A number of us, say 4-5 people, whose jobs/businesses are clustered around a similar location and who are in the accumulation phase and maintain the shared goal of retiring early, would exchange contact de...

My daily spend, broken up by food-group: Protein/Grains - Oats - $0.25 Protein/Fat/Legumes - Peanuts - $0.25 Greens - Cabbage/Kale/Etc - $2-3 Carrots - Big discounted bags - $0.50 Chocolate - Order online in bulk - $0.70 Coffee - Instant - $0.25 (approx) Fruit - Frozen Berries - $1.40 Fish - Sardine...

wealth is not money in the bank and in the markets, but the home in a nice place, the comfortable and reliable means of transport, the enriched life with agreeable and stimulating friends, art and music, plentiful 'flow' experiences, and of course the insurances, available money, and other arrangem...

It seems like a lot of jobs - especially white collar and/or tech-sector jobs - fall into three groups (sometimes overlapping): Money - the well, or at least, better-paid gigs. These can range from highly specialised contractors on 6-figures through to more generalised but higher-ranking middle and ...

Just got recommended this by Jason Fried: TheDistance

Looks like an interesting resource. I'm pretty sure the ideas that make for sustainable, long-term businesses would be a gold-mine for ERE-ers such as myself.

Going to have lots of fun listening to their podcast during my morning commute.

Maybe regularly scheduled chats with specific topics would work in addition to the normal spontaneous stuff? This! I would be keen on "workshops" centred around a given theme, with someone chosen to lead the discussion, followed by an open-ended discussion period, in which people ask questions, deb...

Would anyone be interested in joining an ERE-oriented chatroom? I was thinking something along the lines of an IRC channel or even a group chat in WhatsApp? It would be awesome to have a constantly active, live feed of people from around the world, providing constant motivation to eachother to keep ...

Jacob, I’m only partway through the book but I might now pay special attention to Ch 7.

7Wannabe5, yes fair point too. I’m striving to live healthy but there’s a good chunk of medical issues that are environmental or genetic and outside one’s control.

I've been having some thoughts lately about respectability. These are partly inspired by a lecture given by a sociologist that I found on YouTube (I'll try and find it and post the link). In the lecture, she breaks down her concept of respectability, to do with social standing and social pressures. ...

Lately I've been learning about Reactive Programming , and finding some of the ideas interesting in relation to early retirement lifestyle and budgeting, particularly the concept of elasticity – the ability to scale resources up and down in response to circumstances. During the accumulating phase, t...

I've found it helpful to focus on the actions of your job. The hows . The things you act on (e.g. emails, documents, chat sessions, phonecalls, etc) may be relevant only to your current employer, but the way you perform those actions (including the techniques, habits, mental models, behaviours, repe...