How to Survive Without any Money

I was checking my stats on Google Analytics and it turns out that people have been searching with the phrase "how to survive without any money", which just goes to show how serious the global recession is.

But it got me thinking. It's not really possible to survive with no money at all - but there are plenty of ways to get goods and services using barter or vouchers.

One such scheme is Freecycle, which allows people to collect goods that other people don't want. The only cost is that the person who wants the stuff needs to collect it.

Another scheme is Local Exchange Trading Schemes (LETS). LETS is essentially a barter system, where you offer to do things for people (say gardening) and get points, which you can then cash by asking someone else to do something you need (say plumbing). There are LETS groups all over the UK. There are also LETS groups in 39 countries worldwide - see here.

Another way to buy things without money is to accrue vouchers. Vouchers are mainly offered by survey companies - see here for a list of genuine survey companies.

I hope the above information is of interest to people

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