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One year without the use of money?

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good_advice
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edited 17 March 2015 at 6:03PM in Old style MoneySaving
Could we live with no money for a year?

The title is a FREE kindle book I have just finished reading.

A bit false I thought. A single man in a hot country who is left a house and land by the sea.

No house bills. No gas/electric. No phone or car..
Def. no internet or tv.

The only thing for heating and cooking is a wood fire.
Water from a well.

Lots of thought! simple living without stress. No travel, just walking to the sea front for a swim and a walk.
A bare house with just a bed and table/chairs.

Reminds me a bit of "Little house on the prarie".

I think we love our belongings and comforts to much.
Need to pay house bills.
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  • [Deleted User]
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    There is a book by Mark Boyle called 'The Moneyless Man' well worth a read and he is based in the UK in Bristol.
  • MadelinesMum
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    I often dream of living on a desert island. It's also what I think of when I hear the Coldplay song Paradise.

    In reality, I expect I would hate it and turn insane, but it's nice to dream.
    I must remember that "Money Saving" is not buying heavily discounted items that I do not need. :hello:
  • want_to_save
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    one i have which i loved was

    How I Lived a Year on Just a Pound a Day Paperback – 29 Aug 2008


    by Kath Kelly (Author)


    it made me giggle and is a really good book
  • danih
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    I have just started reading the Moneyless Man. I have no plans to follow his example, but its a very interesting read.
    :j got married 3rd May 2013 :beer:
  • elsien
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    want_to_save wrote: »
    one i have which i loved was

    How I Lived a Year on Just a Pound a Day Paperback – 29 Aug 2008


    by Kath Kelly (Author)


    it made me giggle and is a really good book

    Isn't this the person who lived in London with all sorts of free entertainment and events to gatecrash/ nick canap!s from.
    I'm guessing in my small town with bog all going on it would be a slightly different story.
    All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.

    Pedant alert - it's could have, not could of.
  • PasturesNew
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    There's always a big flaw in these people's stories. What is the "use of money" - living in a free house is using money .... money converted into the free house.

    If I lived in a free house, in a hot country, by the sea, then I could live without the use of money too ..... it's not rocket science. But nobody's going to give me a free house in a hot country by the sea are they.

    And the woman on £1. Same thing - she was poncing off people and in a big city with access to stuff.....
  • chanie
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    Thanks, I've ordered the book.
  • Butterfly_Brain
    Butterfly_Brain Posts: 8,862 Forumite
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    The moneyless manifesto is free to read online

    http://www.moneylessmanifesto.org/
    Blessed are the cracked for they are the ones that let in the light
    C.R.A.P R.O.L.L.Z. Member #35 Butterfly Brain + OH - Foraging Fixers
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  • 7roland8
    7roland8 Posts: 3,601 Forumite
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    Don't you still have to pay Council Tax - even if in a caravan.
    Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day. -- Sally Koch
  • SailorSam
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    May not have to pay any sort of Council Tax if you're in a forirgn Country.
    Liverpool is one of the wonders of Britain,
    What it may grow to in time, I know not what.

    Daniel Defoe: 1725.
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