man lives for a year without money

The Argus reports that

A man who lived for a year without spending any money said that it has been the happiest time of his life and he intends to continue.

Mark Boyle, 30, has lived for the past 12 months as a true 'freeconomist', leading a self-sufficient lifestyle in a caravan in Timsbury, near Bath, growing his own food and reusing junk that people have thrown away.

This is the same Mark Boyle that wrote two pieces for the Guardian over a month ago? How does he manage to lead a cash-free life? Well he

either grows or forages for his food and gets his clothes from bins or from the Freecycle website.

which is all very admirable and, if you want to live the fantasy lifestyle of an eco-scrounger, that's the way to do it. Of course if we all lived that way there would be no clothes, no free newspapers, no waste food, no Freecycle and that's the problem with this 'cash-free' model. It relies on other people spending cash, trading and wasting for it to work.