Wonderful replies, thanks so much. Crypto, yes, those sorts of posts complaining so self-righteously about the "lazy beggars" outside and inside BM were part of what worried me, even if I agree that moochers are, sadly, a problem that arise in any giving community (despite what our utopian novelists...

I've never been to BM but when I heard about the whole "gifting" aspect I ran over here to read about it and start planning my first trip to the desert for Labor Day. Giving is the core tenet of my own little life philosophy; it is the most creative act I know of and if BM is about giving and creati...