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cynatnite

(31,011 posts)
Fri May 4, 2012, 04:12 PM May 2012

Man lives completely without money...

Daniel Suelo is 51 years old and broke. Happily broke. Consciously, deliberately, blessedly broke.

Not only does he not have debt, a mortgage or rent, he does not earn a salary. Nor does he buy food or clothes, or own any product with a lower case "i" before it. Home is a cave on public land outside Moab, Utah. He scavenges for food from the garbage or off the land (fried grasshoppers, anyone?). He has been known to carve up and boil fresh road kill. He bathes, without soap, in the creek.

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Suelo wasn't always a modern-day caveman. He went to the University of Colorado and studied anthropology, at one point considering medical school. He lived in a real house, with four walls, a window and a door, and shopped in stores, not their dumpsters.

But over time he says he grew depressed, clinically depressed, mainly with the focus on acquisition. "Every time I made a resume for a job, signed my name to a document, opened a bank account, or even bought a banana at the supermarket, I felt a tinge of dishonesty," he said.

http://gma.yahoo.com/going-without-money-hurt-economy-one-mans-quest-211049892--abc-news-topstories.html

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me b zola

(19,053 posts)
3. For the love of God, no one show this story to mr zola
Fri May 4, 2012, 04:38 PM
May 2012

As it is, when he can't find his belt he uses a large spring attatched to his belt loops to hold up his pants.

bhikkhu

(10,708 posts)
17. And someone to make the clothes and other things
Fri May 4, 2012, 09:42 PM
May 2012

...so they can be bought and later discarded, and later rescued from the garbage.

 

riderinthestorm

(23,272 posts)
11. Was just thinking along those lines. This guy does not have health issues
Fri May 4, 2012, 05:34 PM
May 2012

especially chronic ones that need management, treatment and meds.



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