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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
20 reviews
theochick's review against another edition
Content Warnings
Graphic: Eating disorder, Fatphobia, and Alcoholism
hannicherri's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
3.25
The author's overall goal was great, and she is decently skilled at writing, but I worry that she needed more mental health help for her problems than she got.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction and Alcoholism
Minor: Drug use and Fatphobia
libertycookies's review against another edition
reflective
medium-paced
2.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcoholism and Panic attacks/disorders
Moderate: Fatphobia, Physical abuse, Eating disorder, and Drug use
reallivingthing's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
4.0
This book was a great read to start my low/no buy year. I listened to Cait speak on a podcast about her experience, joined a server of other people wanting to do a shopping ban, and picked up the book. While I found certain parts unnecessary (like comparing alcoholism and being fat to being in debt or overspending), the overall book was a great memoir detailing her experience of only buying necessities for a whole year. It was very inspiring, and made me realize that this is something that’s possible for most people probably, including me who lives on low income disability. If reading just remember it IS a memoir and not a how-to, but you can gain some really valuable information from her experience.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcoholism
Moderate: Fatphobia and Eating disorder
Minor: Drug use and Body shaming
sarahconailte's review against another edition
emotional
informative
inspiring
fast-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Fatphobia
katherinethegreat's review
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
fast-paced
3.75
I really enjoyed this book! I skimmed parts about IWL and diet culture, since the author’s mindset on that was somewhat hard to read. But everything else was great. The writing was engaging, and I liked how she brought in stories and people and wove the narrative.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Fatphobia
megob's review against another edition
2.0
Interesting, but I didn't jive with the writing style and felt like the content didn't live up to the title.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Fatphobia
e_mcdowell's review against another edition
It was ok at the beginning but about halfway through it got super judgy and preachy. She says often enough that everyone is different but she sure makes it seem like hers is the right way. I’m all for saving money and reducing consumption but I’m not about to learn how to sew just so I can fix my old navy pajama pants.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Mental illness, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Addiction
Also shaming for binge watching tv.cavernism's review against another edition
reflective
medium-paced
1.5
I read this expecting something totally different based on the book jacket description. I can't blame the author for writing more of a memoir, but I can blame the editor and publicist for marketing it as a self-help book when it really isn't. I was frustrated the with the lack of depth as to why it's hard to resist buying things and the cultural and environmental implications of this. I guess it's unfair for me to rate a book low based on what I wished the book was versus what it was trying to do, but I found it frustratingly surface-level on the issue of having lots of things in general, while also being unhelpful for the general person wanting to simplify their lives beyond very intuitive, basic things. Also, if it's going to be an effective memoir, the author should have a compelling story to tell. I got so bored hearing about her travel itineraries and disjointed details about her family, friends, and addictive habits. To paraphrase The Office, this book could on a list of memoirs titled 'People I Don't Care About.' That sounds really harsh - I think even the most "typical" lives can be made fascinating by a good writer. The writing is simply not compelling enough to make it a good memoir, nor is it insightful or informative enough to make it a good self-help book.
I also was not expecting the blithe fatphobia the author directs at herself (casually throwing in phrases like how much she weighed and how unattractive that made her at her lower points) or the pretty detailed descriptions of alcoholism. Overall, this book didn't have the content I was looking for, and even the resources section was laughably bare-bones.
I also was not expecting the blithe fatphobia the author directs at herself (casually throwing in phrases like how much she weighed and how unattractive that made her at her lower points) or the pretty detailed descriptions of alcoholism. Overall, this book didn't have the content I was looking for, and even the resources section was laughably bare-bones.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction
Moderate: Fatphobia