How did you find earlyretirementextreme.com?
How did you find earlyretirementextreme.com?
Search? What search terms?
PF blog reference/blogroll? If you remember, also include name of the site.
Animal instincts?
PF blog reference/blogroll? If you remember, also include name of the site.
Animal instincts?
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Re: How did you find earlyretirementextreme.com?
I googled "early retirement climate change INTJ lentils"
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Re: How did you find earlyretirementextreme.com?
Found MMM first, then heard of this site, read the book, and found the overall ERE philosophy more to my liking. Admittedly, I'm an INTJ.
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Re: How did you find earlyretirementextreme.com?
Found it through incoming traffic links to my own site. Name intrigued me so I took the bait and here I am. Been reading stuff on and off all day.
Re: How did you find earlyretirementextreme.com?
I first heard about FI on a podcast. That lead me to the FI subreddit, which then took me here
Re: How did you find earlyretirementextreme.com?
I literally googled "extreme retirement", because I wanted to retire early!
Re: How did you find earlyretirementextreme.com?
friend sent me a news article 5 years ago about a crazy guy who lived in an rv in San Francisco, and then I tracked him down on the internet....
Re: How did you find earlyretirementextreme.com?
hahaha. nice. oh and me too.jennypenny wrote:I googled "early retirement climate change INTJ lentils"
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Re: How did you find earlyretirementextreme.com?
I was on a field training exercise (a Krieg Spiel), and I was reflecting on how well one could live just on the contents of one's backpack. So, since I was a TOCroach at the time, I googled minimalist. One of the sites I came across was the "so long and thanks for all the fish" transfer to MMM. So then I started reading both of them and it blew my goddamn mind.
Re: How did you find earlyretirementextreme.com?
I'm not 100% sure, but I believe it was a reference by a blogger or someone who commented on a PF blog a long time ago. I enjoyed Jacob's analyticcal bent, even if he is more analytical than I am.
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Re: How did you find earlyretirementextreme.com?
I googled "secret danish conspiracy to undermine capitalism" and it popped up as #1.
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Re: How did you find earlyretirementextreme.com?
Well... the Amazon 'suggestions' did it for me. I was looking for books written by Tom Hodgkinson - the king of idleness - and just like that Jacob's book popped up in the suggestions list. From there, it was the logical search and find through reference lists and the web. So actually I was aiming to become a professional idler and now I'm working as hell to become FI :p ... strange paradigm shift...
Re: How did you find earlyretirementextreme.com?
it was mentioned by someone on MMM and I started reading some of Jacob's posts and realized a lot of it was way over my head. So I got his book and started "getting" it.
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Re: How did you find earlyretirementextreme.com?
Same as FXr, but more recently.
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There was a "cheap living" thread over at Mark's Daily Apple back when I first started eating Primal/Paleo, and after reading "Possum Living" (because it was the only one the library had in stock) someone suggested Jacob's Book. I actually devoured the site/forums here before getting the book, but I did eventually buy the book so I could lend it out to people who aren't inclined to binge read online content.
Re: How did you find earlyretirementextreme.com?
Just a duckduckgo.com search for "early retirement" and ERE was the third or fourth result but by far the most eye catching because it says extreme.
Re: How did you find earlyretirementextreme.com?
This is an old topic but I like the question. Responding is also my way of thanking the person if they are around...
I was working as a teacher in Asia circa 2014 and was on an internet forum for local expat teachers. Someone fleetingly mentioned they planned to retire in x amount of years due to extreme frugality or something like that and posted a link to the website without further comment. I think I may have clicked on it and then fled (too many Wheaton levels removed). 6 months later I was back in the home country and at a loose end and something pulled me back in. I chased the white rabbit right to the bottom of the hole.
If you are ever a reader of this forum, I thank you tremendously!
I was working as a teacher in Asia circa 2014 and was on an internet forum for local expat teachers. Someone fleetingly mentioned they planned to retire in x amount of years due to extreme frugality or something like that and posted a link to the website without further comment. I think I may have clicked on it and then fled (too many Wheaton levels removed). 6 months later I was back in the home country and at a loose end and something pulled me back in. I chased the white rabbit right to the bottom of the hole.
If you are ever a reader of this forum, I thank you tremendously!
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Re: How did you find earlyretirementextreme.com?
Time warp... it was probably a decade ago when jacob posted on The Simple Dollar and it was quickly becoming obvious that Trent wasn't going beyond soap recipes.
[edit: OMG, I just popped into thesimpledollar.com and now it's a tout for loans and credit cards! My, how low can you sink?]
[edit: OMG, I just popped into thesimpledollar.com and now it's a tout for loans and credit cards! My, how low can you sink?]