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Key insights from Cait Flanders'
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
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Start ReadingTrue happiness can’t be bought.
After combating alcoholism and massive debt, Cait Flanders noticed that she still had a serious problem: Her shopping habit was out of control. So, Flanders decided to drastically change her lifestyle once again by stopping her shopping habit in its tracks and decluttering her life. Her journey was filled with both discoveries and disappointments, but it revealed to her that true happiness doesn’t come from your belongings. Rather, it comes from how you interact with the world and those in it.
Read this Snapshot if you:
- Have an addiction that you want to overcome
- Are trying to simplify your life by changing your habits
- Want to make a drastic change in your life, whether personally or professionally
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Start ReadingBook Information
Key insights from Cait Flanders'
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
True happiness can’t be bought.
After combating alcoholism and massive debt, Cait Flanders noticed that she still had a serious problem: Her shopping habit was out of control. So, Flanders decided to drastically change her lifestyle once again by stopping her shopping habit in its tracks and decluttering her life. Her journey was filled with both discoveries and disappointments, but it revealed to her that true happiness doesn’t come from your belongings. Rather, it comes from how you interact with the world and those in it.
Read this Snapshot if you:
- Have an addiction that you want to overcome
- Are trying to simplify your life by changing your habits
- Want to make a drastic change in your life, whether personally or professionally
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Introduction
Two days before Cait Flanders’ 29th birthday, she and her friends were hiking the trails of Garibaldi Provincial Park. As they spoke of where their lives were taking them, Flanders had a revelation. While all her friends were moving into the next stages of life, she seemed stagnant and still in need of working on herself. When her friends asked what her next step would be, she blurted out an idea she’d been dwelling on for a while: She would stop all unnecessary shopping for an entire year.
Flanders had made drastic life changes before, including combating alcoholism, obesity,...