Woman who's lived without money for 16 years!

As we move closer to a cashless society, some consumers are quietly challenging the idea of money in the first place––by giving it up completely. We meet one of them. (Image credit: AFP)

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Tue, Jun 19, 2012 1:00 PM SGT

Although she never had plans to go public with her life, after a German book publisher pushed her to put pen to paper, Schwermer relented. The latest of three books on her journey, "Seeing Miracles In Life Without Money," will be released this summer in Germany. As with its predecessors, all her royalties will go to the various charitable groups she supports.

"Now, more and more young people want to change something in their lives and often they
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Although she never had plans to go public with her life, after a German book publisher pushed her to put pen to paper, Schwermer relented. The latest of three books on her journey, "Seeing Miracles In Life Without Money," will be released this summer in Germany. As with its predecessors, all her royalties will go to the various charitable groups she supports.

"Now, more and more young people want to change something in their lives and often they don't know what they can change," she says. "I changed something in my life."
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