Freegan, millionaire swap wives

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When it first emerged people were forgoing the weekly shop to rifle through supermarket skips it seemed like a dirty business.

However, committed freegans – who believe paying for goods is the last option – were unmoved and have continued to go quietly about their business, their numbers and their profile growing.

Documentaries have been made about the phenomenon and when a millionaire's wife moved in with a family of freegan Christians on Channel 4's Wife Swap, the movement must have thought it had finally arrived in the mainstream.

Put simply, the premise of freeganism is waste not want not – and while its devotees are often painted as scavengers living below the breadline, it's an unfair portrayal as most are motivated by thrift and environmentally friendly ethics.

 

Wife Swap - Episode 2

 

The series continues with an ex-pat episode: Marbella socialite Anna Courtenay and her husband Chris swap places with "back-to-nature" Dan and Kara Darby-Dhyan, who live on an eco-friendly boat.

Both couples emigrated from England for a better life in Spain but that's where the similarities end.

Anna (42) and her second husband Chris (49) enjoy the kind of lifestyle many would envy: a five-bed villa with a pool, three domestic staff to run the house, a beach close by and the weather to enjoy it all.

The couple run two successful businesses, and make sure their four privately educated children get what they want. But the family rarely spend time together.

Kara (32) and her husband Dan (32) live a completely different life in the sun. When they left the UK, they also turned their back on modern life.

They live a self-sufficient, carbon-neutral existence on their boat Sinbad miles from the nearest town, spending their days tending the land, growing their own food and raising their own cattle for meat.

For the Darby-Dhyans, consumerism is the number one evil. Their three children are home-schooled, and the Darby-Dhyans spend all of their time together as a family.

How does Anna cope with getting her hands dirty tending the land, no modern conveniences and living off a mere six-Euro weekly budget?

How does Kara handle "sleeping with the enemy" as she has to endure everything she has come to despise about modern life, including "frittering" away a mammoth €1,000 weekly budget?