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The author of "A Year Without Shopping" explains what made her decide to give up shopping for a year, what struggles she encountered, how she saved money, and how it affected her life. This book isn't written by organizing or personal finance experts, it's written by regular people, so the text is very personal and emotional. Who is the author? Kate Flanders is a Canadian journalist who gained notoriety for blogging about how she began to continually improve her life: She stopped drinking, paid off her debts, dropped kilos and turned to conscious consumption.
Out of that experience was born A Year Without Buying, which became one of the best-selling non-fiction moible number data books on Amazon in its first month of publication. What is this book about? Kate Flanders shared her diary from this period, where she notes how much she throws away and how much she manages to save in income. However, these milestones are more like narrative signposts. The same is at the heart of a story about what she did to consume less.

At the end of the book, Flanders gives a short summary and offers a list of recommendations for those . Take the first step The author recommends starting by modifying things first. She recommends literally taking everything out of the closet and, without alleviating doubts, separating those things you use from those extras that you'll never reread, have become irredeemably Little clothes for medicine, and so on. She herself, to get a better idea of the volume of stuff she doesn't need, even makes an inventory and calculates what she can throw away in a year.
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