A review by befrazzledenby
The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store by Cait Flanders

medium-paced

0.5

this was horrible. thought this would explore consumerism and mindfulness and the intersection especially under capitalism, and i was super interested in the shopping ban concept. instead, i got a detailed journey of the author’s relationship with alcohol and her parent’s divorce. the only actual advice was to “buy less takeaway coffees” (and i was even ready to sift thru bad dave ramsey advice!) also super fatphobic. the last six pages were the only useful material, and even then, it wasn’t much. 
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