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What about hygiene? (And its High Philosophy)

Bathing
In Nature

When I'm in the canyon, I wash in the creek as often as possible, doing a full body plunge, winter and summer. In the hot Utah desert summer, I
plunge into the water and scrub my skin and hair every day, and I plunge in the water for a swim up to four or five times per day. In the winter, I
try to do a full-body creek bath at least once per week, but usually twice per week, on days when the sun is out. I love plunging into icy water,
getting me high and exhilarated, with a warm feeling on my skin afterward. However, some very cold weeks when I lack energy, I do full body
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sand baths. The Quran recommends bathing with sand when one can't bathe in water.
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I do not use soap, except when I'm in civilization, to wash my hands, socks, and underwear, or if I have been doing work with paints, grease, or
Moneyless other substances, or if I've been train-hopping (which gets me full of greasy soot that only comes off with soap). [See "Soapless Philosophy"
below.]
World - Free In Civilization
World - Many classic Bohemian and homeless types are so greasy and stinky you don't want near them. Urban homeless types have more of an excuse,
Priceless World since it is often very difficult to find places to bathe when you are on the streets. But I have found, if you put your mind to it, have self-respect,
you can stay clean. I find bathrooms and park spigots to bathe in. I have often waited until night time and gotten completely naked in city parks
under water spigots.

I would recommend, if you see a smelly homeless person, stop condemning them and, instead, have basic compassion and offer them a shower.
You have no clue how difficult it is for them, so get off your high horse.
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Videos I don't let go any opportunity to bathe in civilization, whether in a river, canal, public restroom sink, park spigot or an offer from a house-holder. If I
can't bathe my whole body, I wash my face, armpits, crotch, and feet every day. Not missing any opportunity to wash feet and socks every day is
featuring Suelo very important when you're on the road, because feet and socks are the greatest stinker. I always carry an extra pair of socks, washing a pair
& Other Moneyless Friends every single day, meaning I almost always have a wet pair drying on my pack. I try to wash underwear and tee-shirts at least every two or three
days, too, also carrying an extra of those, too.

Radio Interviews It is un-natural to be dirty and stink

Re: the Book, Animals have the sense to bathe, primp and preen. Many "natural" Bohemian types stink so badly it's almost painful to be around them. Natural
The Man Who Quit doesn't mean lazy, and it doesn't mean lack of respect for yourself and others. And people automatically think not using soap and skin products
also means not using water.
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Soapless Philosophy ~ "Libertarian" Economic Philosophy?
Author Mark Sundeen's website
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ): I don't otherwise use soap for two important reasons: (1) Soap pollutes the creek. (2) Soap strips my skin of both necessary oils and necessary
living flora, disrupting the natural balance. When the natural balance is upset, you begin to stink, and you then need soap again to wash away
1. Why Do You Live Without the stink, in a mad cycle of addiction. Why does no wild creature on earth use soap? Notice how wild creatures' coats and feathers are sleek
Money? (A Biographical Intro) and shiny, without putrid body odor. I also noticed, in traveling in close proximity with people on buses in third world countries (Latin America,
2. Do You Think Money Is Evil? Southeast Asia, and India) in the 80s and 90s, I smelled no unpleasant body odors. But traveling on buses in the USA, people's body odors
could be unbearable.
3. What Do You Do For Food?
4. What do you do for shelter? Long before I gave up money I gave up soap, shampoo, and skin products to test my hypothesis. Note: I did not give up bathing, but skin
5. What do you do for products. I washed constantly with water and nothing else. My first month or so doing this, my skin and especially my hair were greasy, and I'd
transportation? develop body odor quickly. This meant I bathed in water more often. However, after a month or so, my skin and hair reached equilibrium, and
6. Do you get sick from dumpsters were no longer greasy and smelly. The natural organic chemistry and living flora of my skin reached balance.
& roadkill & living in the cold?
7. Do you take food stamps or This is the very principle of living moneyless: stop manipulating the balance, the balance between credit and debt, and credit and debt perfectly
other government aid or balance themselves out. If you want wavy water to calm down, get your hands out of it. This is also the principle of meditation: if you want your
institutional charity? thoughts calm, you can't do it with thought. If you want the natural environment to balance out, stop managing it.
8. How long do you plan to live
This is the laissez-faire economic principle that many Libertarians and Randians think they are practicing. However, true laissez-faire doesn't
this way?
work in a money system, because the very nature of money itself is control of credit and debt, a lack of faith in nature's perfect balance of credit
9. What will you do when you get and debt. Free means no money, and "free market" is an oxymoron. Your philosophy must be consistent across the board or it won't work. This
old? is why mega-corporations adore so-called "Libertarian" principles, because they appear to be about giving up control, and this is what makes
10. What happens if you get sick or them so deeply deceptive. The corporate greed-head adores the idea of you or any government giving up control over the corporation, under
injured? "free market" principles, that the corporation may then turn the tables and have total control over you and over government, using a slight twist
11. What would happen to society if to Libertarian-speak to promote its deception!
everybody lived like you do?
What if everybody raided Okay, I confess, it's funny going from bathing and soap to Libertarian economic theory. Just wait till we get to pooping and peeing!
dumpsters?
12. You look well-fed and well- Deodorants
dressed; are you a trust-funder?
Sand and dirt are excellent deodorizers, as they not only rub away excess skin oils, sweat, and dead skin, but they also restore its natural living
13. Why don't mooches like you
flora and skin suppleness. Even after bathing in water, I also rub sand or dirt in my armpits and crotch. When I am in civilization, I use a mixture
work? of cornstarch and baking soda to rub in my armpits, an Amish practice. I find baking soda and cornstarch in dumpsters, or friends give me a little.
14. You say you don't use money, It works better than any store-bought deodorant. But dirt and sand work just as well, too - just not so accessible & acceptable in civilization.
yet aren't you using products of
the money system & relying on
Pooping & Peeing
the hard-earned money of
others? I pee far away from my camp in random places, because it doesn't take long for pee to stink to high heavens. At night I keep a bottle, jar or can
15. What do you do if somebody nearby to pee in.
offers you money or buys things
for you? I poop in random holes I dig far away from my camp, away from streams. I bury it at least three inches deep. It decomposes more quickly in the
16. What do you do if you find topsoil, where all the organisms are, than it does deeper down. In the desert it also dries pretty fast in the hot summer, and I find that random
money? animals, including ravens, like to dig it up and eat it. Nature takes good care of it. When I am by myself, I don't dig deep pits or keep using the
17. Do you barter? same pit. That doesn't feel natural and doesn't disperse my nutrients. If I am in camping community with others, I dig a compost pit or use a
18. Isn't it hard living your life of composting bucket, since random periodic poopy places would make a too high and unsanitary impact.
asceticism?
19. What about relationships? Wiping
Don't you get lonely?
Toilet paper is my absolute last resort. Toilet paper is barbaric and wasteful and doesn't get you clean.
20. Has anybody else ever joined
you? I most commonly wipe my butt with sand or dirt, scooped up with a flat rock or stick. I also wipe with leaves (preferably dead semi-moist ones on
21. Do you know of anybody else the ground, or fresh deciduous, juniper or sage-brush leaves, or random plants). But be careful, some plants are irritating. Mullen feels soft and
who presently lives like you do? fuzzy, but causes a rash in some allergenic folks. I also sometimes wipe with old newsprint paper.
22. Do people harass you?
23. Do want to change the world to When I am in civilization, I carry a bottle into the bathroom with me and wash my butt with water, like they do in India and southeast Asia, rather
a moneyless world? than use toilet paper. Once you start doing this, you realize how barbaric toilet paper is, and you don't want to use it again because it doesn't get
24. Your ideas sound nice, but you clean.
naive. Let's get real. Don't you
think, with all the thieves, the The Philosophy of Pooping, Peeing, Breathing, and Dying in Nature
lazy, the mooches & the greedy
that a moneyless, free economy Giving, expecting nothing in return, is the most holy act a person can do. This is why pooping, peeing, breathing, and
just wouldn't work? dying in nature are the highest of holy acts. You do it egolessly, without thought of doing anything righteous, without
25. Are you religious? thought of reward. You usually don't give it a thought that you are freely giving food to the universe, contributing back
26. Don't you get scared or to all of society. One's waste is another's food. This is pay-it-forward in its purist form. Whatever you do with thought
discouraged? of self-righteousness is not righteous. Now if only all our acts could be just like pooping, peeing, breathing, and dying.
27. I want to live moneyless; but Die daily and be born again daily.
what if I have a family with
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children?
28. You are a hypocrite/ a bum/
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mentally ill/ an egotist/ self-
righteous, saying you live You do not have permission to add comments.
moneyless. But you can live this
way only because you are in a
land of wealth & industrious
people. Aren't you biting the
hand that feeds you? Why do
you scavenge off civilization's
waste rather than live off the
land or grow your own food?
29. What about eyeglasses & dental
care?
30. What if I want to be free of
money. Where do I begin?
31. Why are you an extremist?
Shouldn't you follow the Middle
Way between extremes?
32. How do you maintain your blog
and website and do email?
33. What about hygiene? (And its
High Philosophy)
34. What about grooming?
35. What about clothing and
fashion?
36. How do you do laundry?
37. Don't you know about grace?
Aren't you trying to "work" for
your salvation?
38. Wouldn't Society Fall Apart
Without Money?
39. What Steps Must I Take To Be
Free?
40. What are you contributing to
society?
41. Do you stay at people's houses
when you're on the road, and do
you house sit when you're not?
42. Are you a minimalist?
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SOME OTHER FOLKS
VOLUNTARILY LIVING MONEYLESS
IN THE MODERN WORLD:
(This list is out-dated, and many of
these folks no longer live moneyless,
and others who do are not yet
included here. Heidemarie
Schwermer passed away in 2016 on
my dad's birthday, a month after
Daniel Suelo's dad died. I hope to
update these links soon)

Heidemarie Schwermer
living moneyless in Germany since 1996.
An English write-up on Heidemarie
A movie about her, Living Without Money
Her book, Das Sterntalerexperiment

Mark Boyle,
An Irishman living moneyless in the UK
freeconomy, online gift-economy community
he founded
His book, The Moneyless Man

Benjamin, Raphael & Nieves

(Forward the (R)evolution):
from Germany & France (repectively) who have boat-
hopped & hitch-hiked around the world with no money,
raising consciousness.

(the late) Peace Pilgrim

Most hard-cord of all of us! She lived nearly 30 years
without money, wandering North America with nothing
but the clothes she wore & a few items in her pockets
until she died at age 79!

elf Pavlik
Gave up money a couple years ago on the European
continent (he claims no nationality or state I.D.) and
has been bringing us moneyless folks together into a
cohesive movement.

Tomi Astikainen
from Finland. He gave up money a couple years ago
and has been traveling internationally since. He is
writing an online book for free!

Adin
proving "Umbutu" in South Africa. He started a 5-year
experiment in 2009 of not spending money, though he
raises it, not for himself, but for good causes.

Sonja Kruse
proving "Umbutu", in South Africa. She wandered
without money for about a year and discontinued
it to do other grand things with her life.

Öff Öff Jürgen Wagner

in Germany. Theologian living moneyless (I hope to
update about him when I know more).

C.J. Colwell- "A Twenty First Century

American Nomad" I just discovered this guy. Finally,
one other chap living without money in the USA, that I
know of!

There are probably others I've missed and many more

who are off the grid and under the radar who can't be
Please let me know if you
listed here.
know of other folks who've
renounced money.
(Also see Videos above)

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