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Title: The Man That Lives Without Money !!!
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UK Telegraph
URL Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/gr ... n-who-lives-without-money.html
Published: Aug 21, 2010
Author: Jessica Salter
Post Date: 2010-08-21 12:46:03 by noone222
Keywords: None
Views: 348
Comments: 27
Mark Boyle, 31, gave up using money in November 2008. He lives in a caravan that he got from Freecycle (uk.freecycle.org), which is parked at an organic farm near Bristol, where Boyle volunteers three days a week. He grows his own food, has a wood-burning stove and produces electricity from a solar panel (it cost £360 before the experiment started). He has a mobile phone for incoming calls only and a solar-powered laptop. Boyle, who has been vegan for six years, set up the Freeconomy in 2007 (justfortheloveofit.org), an online network that encourages people to share skills or possessions and now has 17,000 members. The Moneyless Man: A Year of Freeconomic Living (Oneworld Publications, £10.99) is out now. Related Articles British man who aimed to walk to India forced to quit Former businessman lives on no money for a year Annie Leonard, the anti-consumerist filmmaker Keith Chegwin: 'Buying shares is too much like putting your money into a slot machine' Strictly Come Dancing's Camilla Dallerup talks money Coping with tragic news: Pulling togetherIt all started in a pub. My friend and I were talking about all the problems in the world, such as sweatshops, environmental destruction, factory farms, animal testing, wars over resources. I realised they were all, in their own way, connected to money. I decided to give up cash. I sold my houseboat in Bristol and gave up my job at an organic food company. I made a list of everything I bought and tried to figure out which I could get in another way. For toothpaste I use a mixture of cuttlefish bone and wild fennel seeds. Things like iPods you just have to knock off the list, but birds in the trees around my kitchen have become my new iPod. Everything takes more time and effort in a moneyless world. Handwashing my clothes in a sink of cold water, using laundry liquid made by boiling up nuts on my rocket stove, can take two hours, instead of half an hour using a washing machine. It was meant to be just for a year but I enjoy the lifestyle so much that I’m just going to keep living like this. I’ve never been happier or fitter. I had a very normal childhood. I think at first my parents wondered what on earth I was doing. But now they totally support me and they say that they may even try it themselves. Sometimes it is frustrating trying to socialise with no money. I grew up in Northern Ireland where it’s a show of manliness to buy your mates the first round. But I invite them back to my caravan instead to have homemade cider around the campfire. I am single at the moment, but because of the book and my blog a few women seem interested in me. Just being a vegan cuts down the number of women I’m compatible with, never mind being moneyless. I’ll be lucky if there’s one woman in the whole country who wants to give up cash for life – and I might not even fancy her.
Poster Comment: It was meant to be just for a year but I enjoy the lifestyle so much that I’m just going to keep living like this. I’ve never been happier or fitter.
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#1. To: noone222 (#0)
I really thought this was going to be about Turtle.
"Satan / Cheney in "08" Good information - thanks. (The parenthesis hosed the links. There needs to be a space between them and the URL.) How do you know it's not?
Turtle would be bragging about native girls dancing nude around his campfire. Total loony braggart.
When I first saw the title I thought someone had done an article about me! >(;^{]
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. He (Gordon Duff) also implies that forcibly removing Obama, a Constitution-hating, on-the-down-low, crackhead Communist, is an attack on America, Mom, and apple pie. I swear these military people are worse than useless. Just look around at the condition of the country and tell me if they have fulfilled their oaths to protect the nation from all enemies foreign and domestic. Shouldn't you be boiling some nuts for your Saturday bath ?
"To communicate anything to a goy about our religious relations would be equal to the killing of all the Jews, for if the goys knew what we teach about them, they would kill us openly". (Book of Libbre David, 37.)
I was going to suggest finding a good pumice stone and forgetting the nuts.
I just finished my first batch of homemade lye soap and it's curing in the shop right now. OK, so I didn't render the lard from hog fat or make the lye from hardwood ashes and water, but it turned out pretty good and I know *how* to make it that way should the need arise. It turned out pretty well. Tastes just like the stuff my grandma used to wash my mouth out with when I was a kid. Yeah, maybe I lose "man points" for scenting it with sage and lavender, but I grew the herbs myself... As for the lavender...well, if you ever happen to eat a lavender-shortbread cookie, you'll have pots of the stuff growing all over the place.
I think we're all going to life that lifestyle whether we want to or not. He's doing it when cash still has some value.
Click for Privacy and Preparedness files I've listened to preachers I've listened to fools I've watched all the dropouts Who make their own rules One person conditioned to rule and control The media sells it and you live the role ~Ozzy Osbourne: Crazy Train
I dont think so. It's good improvisation and that is worth a lot of man points. As for the lavender...well, if you ever happen to eat a lavender-shortbread cookie, you'll have pots of the stuff growing all over the place. YOu have a recipe? .
Click for Privacy and Preparedness files I've listened to preachers I've listened to fools I've watched all the dropouts Who make their own rules One person conditioned to rule and control The media sells it and you live the role ~Ozzy Osbourne: Crazy Train
You lose barbarian points but gain points on the civilized man scale. Those who communicate primarily through hoots and hollars will point and stare and laugh at you - but who gives a fuck about those cretins?
INGREDIENTS 2 sticks of unsalted butter, room temperature 2/3 cup of powdered sugar 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla 2 cups of flour 2 tablespoons of lavender buds 1/4 teaspoon of salt DIRECTIONS In a standing mixer, cream the butter until smooth. Add powdered sugar to butter until combined. Add vanilla and mix until combined. In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, lavender, and salt. Slowly add flour mixture to butter mixture, mix until incorporated. Place dough in a large freezer bag, and into the refrigerator for 1 hour. After 1 hour, preheat oven to 325. On a floured surface, roll out dough to about 1/4 of an inch thick. Cut dough into desired shapes and place on a cookie sheet. Bake for 20 minutes, or until slightly golden. After they're done baking, let them sit on the baking sheet for about 5 minutes then transfer to a cooling rack. *************************************** Notes: This is sorta what I used. I tweak stuff a little bit, but FYI, some people also use mint in the recipe (I despise mint). Some people grind the lavender buds into a powder with a mortar and pestle, but if you do this, you *might* wanna scale back the lavender from the prescribed amount. It can be overpowering. Only other thing is, I'm pretty lazy when it comes to cooking, so before I refrigerate the dough, I just roll it into a log like those prefab store cookies come in, and when it's chilled, I cut cookies off it rather than rolling the dough out. You can also just pat the damn stuff into a baking pan and cut it up like brownies or eat it raw if you're impatient.
Got it saved, thanks! I like cooking
Click for Privacy and Preparedness files I've listened to preachers I've listened to fools I've watched all the dropouts Who make their own rules One person conditioned to rule and control The media sells it and you live the role ~Ozzy Osbourne: Crazy Train
Thanks for the recipe!
Simplicity is contentment to me.
"To communicate anything to a goy about our religious relations would be equal to the killing of all the Jews, for if the goys knew what we teach about them, they would kill us openly". (Book of Libbre David, 37.)
What's the saying? Happiness is not getting all you want, but being content with all you have.
I'd have to agree with it ! I remember a time when I was under attack by every mo-fo on planet earth. The State, my business partner, my future ex-wife, and a few others were attempting to pick my pocket or put me in jail ... but I had em under control ... and I recall standing at the toilet taking a leak, laughing inwardly thinking ... If I could just keep these problems and not get any new ones I'd be happy !
"To communicate anything to a goy about our religious relations would be equal to the killing of all the Jews, for if the goys knew what we teach about them, they would kill us openly". (Book of Libbre David, 37.)
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.
Thanks! I knew I was growing that lavender for something. I'll get around to the soap one of these days.
It's true, but I don't remember telling you about it.
“How many Sex and the City fans have funneled all their maternal instincts into their Chinese bulldog without even noticing their ovaries have expired?”
They turned out perfectly yesterday. I baked them 25 minutes instead of 20.
I really thought this was going to be about Turtle. How do you know it's not? I'm taller and thinner and my hair is a bit longer. I also live in a hollow tree.
“How many Sex and the City fans have funneled all their maternal instincts into their Chinese bulldog without even noticing their ovaries have expired?”
I also live in a hollow tree. Yes, that and the fact that this guy has ladies interested him...
And the day the organic farm and he has a disagreement, he will be forced to move, to be someone else's volunteer slave.
It is better to be hated for what you are, than loved for what you are not. - Tommy The Mad Artist.
Some are public (govt) slaves and others choose to be private slaves. Private slaves give nothing to the war machine.
"To communicate anything to a goy about our religious relations would be equal to the killing of all the Jews, for if the goys knew what we teach about them, they would kill us openly". (Book of Libbre David, 37.)
A slave is a slave.
It is better to be hated for what you are, than loved for what you are not. - Tommy The Mad Artist.
#2. To: noone222 (#0)
#3. To: tom007 (#1)
I really thought this was going to be about Turtle.
#4. To: tom007, Turtle (#1)
I really thought this was going to be about Turtle.
#5. To: tom007 (#1)
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I really thought this was going to be about Turtle.
Lord Acton
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#6. To: Lod (#2)
There needs to be a space between them and the URL.)
#7. To: noone222 (#6)
#8. To: Lod (#7)
#9. To: noone222 (#0)
It was meant to be just for a year but I enjoy the lifestyle so much that I’m just going to keep living like this. I’ve never been happier or fitter.
#10. To: Samuel Gray (#8)
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Yeah, maybe I lose "man points" for scenting it with sage and lavender, but I grew the herbs myself...
#11. To: Samuel Gray (#8)
Yeah, maybe I lose "man points" for scenting it with sage and lavender, but I grew the herbs myself...
#12. To: PSUSA (#10)
YOu have a recipe?
#13. To: Samuel Gray (#12)
#14. To: Samuel Gray (#8)
(Edited)
#15. To: Lod (#7)
#16. To: noone222, 4 (#15)
#17. To: Lod (#16)
Happiness is not getting all you want, but being content with all you have.
#18. To: Cynicom (#4)
#19. To: noone222 (#0)
#20. To: Samuel Gray (#12)
#21. To: Cynicom (#4)
Turtle would be bragging about native girls dancing nude around his campfire.
#22. To: ratcat, Lod, PSUSA (#20)
#23. To: Pinguinite (#3)
#24. To: Turtle (#23)
I'm taller and thinner and my hair is a bit longer.
#25. To: noone222 (#0)
#26. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#25)
And the day the organic farm and he has a disagreement, he will be forced to move, to be someone else's volunteer slave.
#27. To: noone222 (#26)
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