If everything was for free, would we have run out of anything?

Clever question. You'd abolish the idea of money overnight. People would consequently stop working and the only means of staying alive would to grow your own food. Who would go to work, earn nothing, and come home to an empty larder while everyone else is working the fields to keep themselves alive?

Eventually people growing specific crops and keeping various animals would meet to barter. This would turn to markets. Money would be invented again, and we'd be back where are now.

Star trek comes to mind. Nobody has to pay for anything as long as you work the job alotted to you, so there would still be a class system but it would work off inteligence and how well you do at school/college/uni. Spartans didn't have a proper currency system instead everyone just did what they were told to do, ie. spartan men had to be soldiers.

we would run out of frilled panties.

I doubt anyone would work if everything was free. People would do their own things or there would be some sort of new economy because we simply can't live that way.

In general, water is free. Some people don't have that.

Of course everything would be gone overnight lol I take things I don't need when it's free :/

Everything would be for free...that means people could take whatever they wanted. I think that when things are more readily available, people undervalue it and pay less attention to it. Everything may not last, but we won't be killing each other over it, as we're doing now.

Idealistic version of anarchism comes to mind. Not even Bakunin & Goldman's ideas. More along the lines of unicorns and dragons and other imaginary things.

I wish I could believe that the nature of the human beast is essentially good.

The nasty crap would be left

If the monetary system were abolished, humans would just find another way to acquire wealth or social status.
In my opinion, it's chaos now, what with the huge wealth disparities in some countries. Not a lot would change.

motivation to get out of bed?

im pretty sure it would just turn into communism. which could work on an extremely small scale

Certain cultures were able to live off the land and not take more than they needed, and if they had to kill something for food, they used the entire animal. Unfortunately most people today want more than they could possibly use. And SOMEONE would have to do the work to raise crops and purify water, and if what they were making were free, a bunch of lazy people would just come and take what they want (and more) and put in zero effort to help out.
It would be nice to go back to the good old days where people raise their own crops and animals, work hard, and realize the difference between "want" and "need".

I'm with mizeka, and I think there would be a lot of chaos, because not everybody would share either.

Of course we would run out of things. Why would a company produce anything if everything would be free? We would have to create our own things... It would be chaos.

what did we do before money.

It depends on the people in question.

I went to a 3-gun show late last month and was looking forward to trying the famous LaRue bbq.

When my bf and I finally got to the BBQ trailer I was astonished to see that it was all free. Here I was expecting to pay maybe $5 a meal or more... and he had prices literally CUT into the metal... everything free.

What astonished me more was that the people weren't abusing it. They were taking only what they needed without being greedy...

But... I knew... if this free BBQ trailer was in another venue people would abuse it and say "It's free! Take EVERYTHING!" as if they were entitled to it all.

If we shared it all out then the world would be a happier place. There wouldn't be rich people or poor people.
You get a certain amount of food each week, the same ammount as everyone else and you get to choose what food you get given. If you have chosen a certain food that runs out for others then you have to miss out on it the next week so the ones that didn't get it get to choose it.
It would be the same with clothes but some that would last a year.

You get everything for free and you get to choose what ones you get.

I think it would lessen alot of crime but then again my idea isn't a realistic one.

More than likely, people would take more than they need. We'd run out quicker or just have to manage the supply that we are willing to give out to the public. As long as the people who make it don't stop, we shouldn't run out but I don't think they should make more just to meet the demands of greedy people.