A commenter asked me why I was into dumpster diving - and expressed interest in why anyone does it. In this article I'd like to try explain what my views are.

I started the "freegan" lifestyle in general about a year ago. I didn't name it that, but this was basically what I was. I lived in squats, even on the street a little bit.

"Free food", an article I wrote on bin diving, also known as skipping, dumpster diving, or freeganism, has just come out in Barcelona Metropolitan magazine. This obscure practise involves getting food for free from the bins of supermarkets. Done correctly, this is better than it sounds, as supermarkets are generally incredibly wasteful and a lot of perfectly good food gets thrown away. When I was doing it, there were many times in which I really couldn't perceive what tiny flaw, if any, had been the reason I had been so generously gifted the stuff I found. A real lesson in divine abundance :)

I'm so psyched! This is my first article in print, and I'm proud of it. You can find it online here.

Me and Marlem, an employee at the three-person restaurant I work at, were talking. I say "employee". She's an employee, but I'm not. She earns a steady salary, and works 9 to 5, because that's how she needs things to work. Me and Cristian, however, split the rest of the earnings at the end of the month and work as much as we need to/feel like. Pretty nice setup.