*RANT ALERT* I am sick to the back teeth of seeing these I live without money stories all over the internet, most are BS as under further scrutiny it usually transpires that the person in question has a nice fat bank balance (and are doing this for a social experiment) or they had a well-paid city job for x number of years and used their fat stacks to buy their land and eco-house etc, etc to then suddenly begin their money-free lifestyle. Its not big or clever or even particularly helpful to be rich then buy all the stuff you need to set yourself up as a leader in money-free lifestyles. Its fake. Id love to hear from people who have done this all their life and never had an money. I did a lifestyle like this for many years and I tell you now its often very, very hard work and not fun. Its like being a fugitive. No money meant only eating out of bins (read: junk food) or wild food (read: go hungry for most of the year). I bartered for the rent of a tiny caravan with no plumbing or electricity. Wood was gathered from the local countryside. I had almost zero carbon footprint and it was a bloody hard life. I was often freezing cold, I went without many things that even the poorest would consider normal household items. How ever amazingly clever you are at this, there will always still be times when some money has to change hands at some point. (taxes etc). About 80% of my life was the money-free zone then I still had to raise some money each week for things I could not seem to get for free no matter how hard I tried. I would then do a few hours of gardening locally for cash. Its sooo much easier to have had a ton of cash first to set your money-free lifestyle up all nice and comfy. Try doing it for real, the hard way. With no bank balance first and no land. That would be the blog post/ebook worth reading. After 15 years of trying to live as low-impact and money-free as possible, I just got sick of scraping by and going without normal stuff (not luxury stuff). I wanted to do something with my skills to make a difference to others. Luckily I shook off my money is evil mindset and now I live in happy eco-luxury with a fine income and am able to enhance so many lives through the courses I now teach. I am actually contributing more by not dropping out.
Posted on: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 09:02:46 +0000
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