Your favorite buy-nothing book

[WootWoot]

I'm looking for books by people who did a buy-nothing year (more or less).
I've read "The Year of Less" by Cait Flanders, and "Not Buying It" (about someone who tried not to buy any Chinese imports, IIRC).

Do you have a favorite?

[Morning Glory]

I really enjoyed "The Day The World Stops Shopping " by JB Mackinnon. I'll edit my post if I think of more.

[WootWoot]

I really enjoyed "The Day The World Stops Shopping " by JB Mackinnon. I'll edit my post if I think of more.

Adding it to my to-read list. Thanks!

[Zikoris]

I loved The Man Who Quit Money by Mark Sundeen.

[mspym]

Both the Man Who Quit Money and The Day the World Stopped Shopping are really good reads and super thought-provoking.

specifically in the world of clothing, Aja Barber’s Consumed is very good.

[WootWoot]

Thanks for the very good suggestions!

Keep 'em coming!

[englishteacheralex]

If you like blogs, The Non Consumer Advocate is quite fun to read. She never buys anything new.

[grantmeaname]

I'm a big fan of The Art of Frugal Hedonism by Adam Grubb and Annie Raser-Rowland. It's very little known but the best FIRE book I've ever read. They're bona fide frugal folks, but the focus isn't so much on trimming and making do as building a really joyful life while spending very little.

[crocheted_stache]

Not a recommendation so much as a reflection. I have a book called How To Fix Damn Near Everything. Don't bother tracking it down. You'll get better instructions these days from YouTube.

When I first got the book, YouTube didn't exist yet, and the part that really connected was that fixing stuff was not only possible but didn't require superhuman skills.

[mspym]

I'm a big fan of The Art of Frugal Hedonism by Adam Grubb and Annie Raser-Rowland. It's very little known but the best FIRE book I've ever read. They're bona fide frugal folks, but the focus isn't so much on trimming and making do as building a really joyful life while spending very little.

That is a good one!

[crocheted_stache]

I'm a big fan of The Art of Frugal Hedonism by Adam Grubb and Annie Raser-Rowland. It's very little known but the best FIRE book I've ever read. They're bona fide frugal folks, but the focus isn't so much on trimming and making do as building a really joyful life while spending very little.

That is a good one!

Just finished reading this one, thank you!

The book is available to borrow here, for anyone who may be having trouble finding it:
https://archive.org/details/artoffrugalhedon0000rase/page/242/mode/1up

[WootWoot]

I'm a big fan of The Art of Frugal Hedonism by Adam Grubb and Annie Raser-Rowland. It's very little known but the best FIRE book I've ever read. They're bona fide frugal folks, but the focus isn't so much on trimming and making do as building a really joyful life while spending very little.

That is a good one!

Just finished reading this one, thank you!

The book is available to borrow here, for anyone who may be having trouble finding it:
https://archive.org/details/artoffrugalhedon0000rase/page/242/mode/1up

Thanks for the link!

[Morning Glory]

You might enjoy Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. It is more about the relationship between people and the environment but has a strong anti consumer emphasis.  From your other thread, I think you may also like The Nature Fix by Florence Williams. 

Plenitude by Juliet Schor is another one aboyt buying less/living smaller but it came out a few years ago and in retrospect she was a bit too optimistic about the "sharing economy ".

ETA
Influence by Robert Cialdini has a lot about resisting the effects of advertising and is just an all-around interesting read