Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping
by:
Judith Levine (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780743288866 (0743288866)
Publish date: March 10th 2006
Publisher: Atria Books
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Book Club,
Environment,
Business,
Economics,
Self Help,
Sociology,
Biography Memoir,
Sustainability
Not Buying It by Judith Levine documents her year of living in New Hampshire and New York while buying only necessities like food. She and her partner are fairly successful; but more importantly they learn consuming less doesn’t condemn you to a life of making your own soaps. And more importantly, o...
Every now and again I go through stages where I feel the need to dramatically declutter and simplify my life. They are typically intense, but brief, although over the course of many of them, I have honestly made some progress in voluntarily cutting down on my very typical American attitude toward co...
An interesting account of one woman's year without buying unnecessary items. She slips up a few times and spends a fair amount of guilt on her reasonings behind all this but overall an interesting look at the reasons people buy so much stuff. It made me think about my unthinking habits of shopping...
An interesting account of one woman's year without buying unnecessary items. She slips up a few times and spends a fair amount of guilt on her reasonings behind all this but overall an interesting look at the reasons people buy so much stuff. It made me think about my unthinking habits of shopping...
Levine and her partner decided to buy only essential items for a year. Fun to read about. Could I do it? Mmmm.
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