Retire early: Live beneath your means


	Retire early: Live beneath your means

egsnyder

1-21-2008 5:17 AM

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egsnyder says:

DLM offers 10 suggestions. Here's an 11th and a 12th.

11. Buy Used: Lots of stuff on Craigslist and other resale venues is actually new. Bought and never used!

12. Shop Freecycle / Fullcircles / ReUseIt / or ANY of the gifting / reuse networks springing up all around the world! [fullcircles.org; freecycle.org; reuseitnetwork.org]. Paying nothing means you don't have buy with after tax $$. And a lot of the stuff given away is also unused - new stuff; bought and never used!

Think of all the money you can save. Makes it possible to either work less; or retire early.

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1-21-2008 5:45 AM

abailart

I retired at 42 ,am 10 times poorer and 10 times happier.

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