The release date for the English version of '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 is Jan 2018. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
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Cait Flanders, who was in her late twenties, was caught in the vicious cycle of materialism that so many of us experience: earn more, buy more, desire more, rinse, repeat. Her old behaviours reappeared even after she managed to pay off over $30,000 in consumer debt. She made the decision to push herself to give up shopping for a whole year after seeing that nothing she was doing or purchasing was making her happy and was instead preventing her from achieving her objectives.
In the book The Year of Less, Cait describes a year in which she only made purchases of consumables including food, hygiene and petrol for her vehicle. She set out to eat less of a lot of other things than shopping along the road. She completed a television ban, explored the zero waste movement, learnt how to mend items rather than toss them away, and decluttered her flat, getting rid of 70% of her possessions. She discovered at every turn that her sense of fulfilment increased with her consumption.
Throughout the year, Cait encountered circumstances that completely upended her life, and that's when the challenge transformed into a lifeline. She became aware of the costs associated with her constant resort to eating, drinking, and buying when faced with difficulties. She was unable to indulge in any of her typical vices, so she broke bad habits that had taken years to develop and realised what was most important to her.
With its unique blend of inspirational wisdom and useful advice, The Year of Less will make you consider what you're hanging onto in your own life and may perhaps inspire you to follow your own road of less.