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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
MrYikes
(720 posts)MineralMan
(146,345 posts)me b zola
(19,053 posts)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.
TedBronson
(52 posts)Confusious
(8,317 posts)and we can all be Luddites.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)bhikkhu
(10,725 posts)...so they can be bought and later discarded, and later rescued from the garbage.
Marr
(20,317 posts)That seriously impresses me.
I thought the hermit archetype had disappeared.
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Courtesy Flush
(4,558 posts)Yo_Mama
(8,303 posts)Then it really sucks. Big time.
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)especially chronic ones that need management, treatment and meds.
provis99
(13,062 posts)Bonobo
(29,257 posts)Just use it.