Let's share our links to favorite threads and comments in the ERE forum. This can serve as a fun reflection while also providing a thread to point to newcomers who don't want to dig for the gold in the history of the forum.
That thread starts out with a basic question you see on every FIRE forum, but it ends up getting to a great a discussion about the principles of ERE and how they differ from FI and E-ER.
There was a discussion about the rarity of living on 1 JAFI or less that was interesting and maybe puts things in perspective: viewtopic.php?p=253762#p253762 (If you want to continue this discussion please post in the JAFI thread instead of in that journal!)
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Another journal that shows rapid progress in ERE (going from $70k/year spend to $22k/year spend with plans to keep going lower): The Education of Axel Heyst. AxelHeyst's journal also has many theory discussions and it also illustrates many mindset changes which are interesting to see. His journal is also interesting as a semiERE case study.
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The Stoa presentations are also worth mentioning. Free of jargon (about Wheaton Levels etc) but still describing the framework. Might be easier to grasp for people starting out, and help those of us that find themselves lost in the map then and again
...The renaissance aspect of ERE is not to diversify one's income streams. It's to be able to play one's life tune using more than the four simple notes available to vacationing full time workers....
Matt3121: How to retire in 6 years as a Barista
Interesting thought experiment.
Barista is more or less interchangeable with other low income jobs in the US. Working at starbucks has an advantage concerning coffee (1lb free per week) and food (1 free item per shift).
Matt describes income and expenses incl. buying a house.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing ~ Helen Keller
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ERE can help to buy freedom and may provide tools for dealing with outright exposure, but freedom and tools get rusty without use. Here is a thread dedicated to those who are using them to the fullest.
If you believe it to be an adventure then post it. There is no right answer. The adventure can be in your head or on a spaceship to mars.
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