According to a new post on Treehugger, Daniel Suelo has gone 9 years without spending money. http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/10/48-year-old-blogger-gone-9-years-without-money.php (http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/10/48-year-old-blogger-gone-9-years-without-money.php)
Is this simply an interesting curiosity or indicative of a possible shift that is taking place in attitudes toward materialism and traditional economic principles and practices? Here is a link to Mr. Suelo's blog:
http://sites.google.com/site/livingwithoutmoney/ (http://sites.google.com/site/livingwithoutmoney/)
I'm certainly not advocating for such a lifestyle (especially since I want to remain married), but I do think his dramatic choices highlight just how "dependent" we have become upon material objects and monetary resources that are not really essential to our survival and may not even be necessary for our happiness and quality of life.
With fuel, natural resources, food, health care, and other expenses on the rise and the ongoing depletion of wealth, are we inevitably going to have to change from a society of conspicuous consumption to a culture of simplicity and frugality?
I just found this intriguing.
Perhaps Daniel has accomplished this by hanging out at Hemming and asking me for my money. He is either always "out of gas just down the road" or trying to get his wife to the hospital. ;)