How do you feel when you go out of money or you take the path to live your upcoming days, weeks, or even a month without a single penny? You will go insane, as you can’t imagine your life without money. Back in fifteen years, a person took the step to become or spend moneyless for a whole year! Yes, you are listening to or reading it right. The name of the insane person is Mark Boyle.
Recently, I got the opportunity to read his first documented experience of 2009 in his book “The Money-less Man: A Year of Freeconomic Living,” which was published by One World Publishing in 2010. It states his experiences, living, challenges, and overcoming all sources of obstacles without the help of money.
Mark Boyle is an Irish businessman who lives in Bristol, UK. He started the chain of the Freeconomic Community, where people from around the world aspire to live or transform their lives from excessive waste of money to utilizing things according to the needs of their lives and sharing the hack of living. Their concept focuses on utilizing more and wasting less.
In his book, Mark first describes the introduction of money into civilization and society with storytelling methods. He was aware of the rules and was concerned about the journey he was starting to begin that was outset after Buy Nothing Day in 2008, and a feast was arranged almost without the money involving most. He arranged his moneyless abode, where he spent his whole year. his meeting with problems and concluding the session with the alternatives with a single drop of money. He skilled himself with research before and through the journey.
He interviewed many news channels about his ups and downs as his day started with searching for food, making an online presence, noting down his experiences, his travel costs by hitchhike, and all were explored freeconomically. He learns and adapts in the most natural way. His Christmas, a free pass for the music show, and around people, all support him. He also made us aware of the money-free living people and the homeless people.
Boyle adapted the self-made rocket stove, mushroom-made paper and ink, a cattle-fish brush, and his shelter (a trailer he got from the Freecycle platform, a platform where people can give or share their things without money). And Boyle made his shelter almost full of resources; he grows plants and vegetables. Other people also support him; the unpunctured tires on his bicycle are one example.
Throughout the journey, he understood and adapted to a more sustainable way of living without money. The journey is really amazing for anyone who wants to change their life by finding alternatives to living a life less dependent on economics if they want to. You must give this book a place on the reading shelf. There is more to be explored, and you should know the other part of the exploration I left for you!