Moneyless.org - Inspiring

Book: Steps Towards Inner Peace

robino — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:09:28 +0000

The Peace-Pilgrim was a woman living almost 30 years without money, in the walhalla of money: the United States. She made many walking trips and took only little on those trips. She lived just from what people gave her and she never needed any money!

Her message was about an inner peace that is reachable by anyone. You as well! It's the ultimate form of happiness, always in peace with whatever is there. Always be at peace with yourself.

"Steps Towards Inner Peace" is the book published after her death. The book is available for free. You can order it at the website about the book and there is also a digital version in Dutch and other languages.

Also check Wikipedia for more information about her life and the website Peacepilgrim.

Raphael Fellmer

guaka — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 23:20:51 +0000

Some people have consciously chosen for a life without money. Raphael Fellmer and his family have been living without money or income since 2010, "to increase consciousness about responsibility, that we all carry for hunger, injustice and environmental damage." Raphael is living in Berlin with wife and children. He has been on TV several times.

Projects we love

guaka — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 19:08:14 +0000

Moneyless.org is a funny continuation of many projects we've worked on and built over the past 10 years. Back in 2006 I started Hitchwiki together with MrTweek. Fortunately I didn't accept Casey Fenton's offer to host the project on CouchSurfing's servers. By now Hitchwiki has 3k+ articles in English and many more articles in other languages, by far the best resource for hitchhikers across the world. In 2008 Robin, the other half behind Moneyless told me to register trashwiki.org.

Elf Pavlik - Moneyless since 2009

guaka — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 00:54:52 +0000

Elf Pavlik gave up money in 2009 after he had come back to Europe from San Francisco. In California he had been working for a highly competitive internet company that was mainly trying to compete with other companies, without really producing anything to make people happy.

Not buying anything for one year

robino — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:29:05 +0000

"Another month passed. The urge to buy is decreasing. Sometimes I see good deals and I'm seduced in a jiffy. Mostly about clothes." Thus wrote Jannie Spruit on her blog Eenvoudigwit (in Dutch) in February 2012 about her initiative to not buy anything for one year.

Living Moneyless: Mark Boyle

robino — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:10:04 +0000

Living without money, how does that work out in practice? The Irishman Mark Boyle has been doing it since November 2008 and he's having a great time. He's living in England in an old caravan given to him. He start symbolically on Buy Nothing Day, a yearly day to not buy anything together with others.

For Mark Boyle it's especially a reaction to the consumer society in which we live and the knowledge that we're responsible for the things we do, to make the Earth a nicer place to live.

Heidemarie Schwermer: A rich life without money

robino — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:34:55 +0000

Living without money was the way to live in the past. Money is only a recent phenomenon. But since we live in a money economy it's a big challenge to live without money. Heidemarie Schwermer from Germany has done that for 20 years, since May 1996, until she passed away.