Archive for the ‘Minimalism’ Category

Boomers, Retirement, and Lower Expectations

This week, while listening to an episode of the KunstlerCast, I discovered a very interesting blog by Charles Hugh Smith — Of Two Minds. If you enjoy blogs with short posts, bulletted lists of “how to (insert topic of the day here)”, and a general concern for the coolness of the blogger, you will not [...]

September 2, 2010 · Bob · No Comments
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Interview with Juliet Schor

This is a must-listen interview with author Juliet Schor, that appeared on public radio. Check it out here — click the Listen tab.

June 4, 2010 · Bob · No Comments
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Retiring Early

As longtime (heh heh) readers of this blog will know, I have written a few posts about money, consumerism, the cost of cars, and stuff like that. Well, this morning Everett Bogue had an interesting tweet, with a pointer to a blog about how to retire early.  Even if you don’t want to retire early, I [...]

June 2, 2010 · Bob · 2 Comments
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Consumerism and Minimalism

As noted in a previous post, for the last few weeks I’ve been reading the blog Far Beyond the Stars, which deals with adopting a very minimalist lifestyle. The author, Everett Bogue, leads a “location-independent lifestyle”, meaning that because he keeps less than 100 possessions (he can fit all his stuff into a backpack), he [...]

April 14, 2010 · Bob · One Comment
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Reading a book

After reading a bunch of Everett Bogue’s blog posts over the last week, I purchased his book, The Art of Being Minimalist. I have been impressed by some of his ideas. While I don’t plan to sell our house or cars anytime soon, I think that some of the principles of minimalism can be applied to [...]

April 1, 2010 · Bob · No Comments
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