Daniel Shellabarger, who later became known as Daniel Suelo, decided to live without money in autumn 2000 after leaving his last thirty dollars in a phone booth at a truck stop in Pennsylvania, according to an account by Clay Bonnyman Evans published in The Coloradan. Mark Sundeen’s book The Man Who Quit Money , published in 2012, gave an account of Suelo’s way of life in the vicinity of Moab, Utah, where Suelo lived in a cave and gathered wild foods, as well as collected leftover food. In a blog post reproduced by Peace Corps Online , Suelo described money as a stand-in for the past as debt and the future as credit, never the present. The man had led a moneyless life, which is different from total self-reliance, since Suelo would accept any freely donated gifts and rejected any money or bartering system. This article looks at Suelo's lifestyle alongside two other sources: a 2006 psychology study on money and a federal report on food waste.
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