Memoir · 2010
The Moneyless Man
A year of freeconomic living
Could you live for a year without spending or earning a single penny?
On Buy Nothing Day in November 2008, Mark Boyle, a business graduate who had spent years managing organic food companies, decided to find out. With a donated caravan, a solar panel, a wood-burning stove and a lot of goodwill, he gave up money entirely.
The Moneyless Man is the story of that year: growing and foraging food, cycling everywhere, making toothpaste from cuttlefish bones, and learning to rely on the kindness of strangers and the strength of community. It is a funny, practical and thought-provoking look at our relationship with money and with each other.
- Publisher
- Oneworld Publications
- First published
- 2010
- Genre
- Memoir / Environment
- ISBN
- 9781786075994
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Reissued by Oneworld in paperback and ebook.
‘Essential reading. The story of a fascinating social experiment, told with humility, insight and great humour.’
Chris Cleave, author of Everyone Brave is Forgiven
Inside the Book
A year without a penny
Food & foraging
Growing, gleaning and foraging: how Mark fed himself and others without a supermarket in sight.
Freeconomy
Sharing skills, tools and time through the Freeconomy Community, and the pay-it-forward ethic behind it.
Connection
The book's central idea: that money puts distance between us and the consequences of what we consume.
