(生活) 德國奶奶找到不用錢的快樂

德國一名69歲的奶奶發現了快樂，而且不用花你一分錢。

Heidemarie Schwermer在1996年開始一項試驗：不花錢過一年。她發現了以物易物以及交換勞務成為一種更能實現取得物品和幫助他人的方法，而且最後她將大部分的財產分送出去，將她的生活所需減少到一只皮箱和一個背包可容的大小。隨後她便航向世界四處旅行交換勞務，像是以家事、園藝、烹煮或是療程（她以前是精神治療師）交換食物和住所。這使她用更加豐富自由的方式體驗周遭的世界，從那時開始她繼續流浪的生活，寫書並將她所賺得的錢全數捐給需要的人。

她說之前很難讓親友理解她的決定，但是他們現在明白了，並且接受她的新生活。德國的社會結構也提供流浪生活一個相當安全的環境，因為人們比較能信任彼此也比較願意提供（與接受）他人的幫助。雖然她的模式可能不適用於你的國家，但可確定的是你可以採納她的部份手法，使你自己從許多的金錢枷鎖中解脫。

(Life) German Grandmother Finds Happiness Without Money

A 69-year-old grandmother from Germany has discovered happiness, and it involves not spending a penny.

Heidemarie Schwermer took on an experiment in 1996, which was to live without money for a year. She discovered how bartering and trading services made a more fulfilling method of acquiring goods and helping others, and ended up giving away most of her possessions, and reduced her life to what would fit into a suitcase and a backpack. She then set out on the world, traveling around and trading services such as housework, gardening, cooking, or therapy sessions (she was a former psychotherapist) for food and shelter. It allowed her to experience the world around her in a much richer and freer way, and she has since continued her nomadic lifestyle, writing books and donating all the money she earns to those who are in need.

She says it was difficult for her friends and family to understand her decision, but says they now understand and accept her new lifestyle.Germanys social structure also provides a fairly safe environment for living nomadically, as people are more trusting of each other and more willing to offer (and accept) help to others. While her system may not work in your country, you can certainly adopt some of her tactics to free yourself of many of your monetary chains.

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