The Moneyless Man: How Did Mark Boyle Spend A Year Without Spending A Dollar? (PHOTOS): “Not being able to buy pens or paper is quite hard when you like to write! Instead, Mark made his own paper out of mushrooms that he made into a pulp and dried. A US organization recently estimated that a 12 foot-high wall, running from New York to California could be erected using just one year’s waste paper from American offices.”