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More or Less: Essays from a Year of No Buying

More or Less: Essays from a Year of No Buying

Pratt, Susannah Q.

Paperback

BeautyGeneral ParentingGeneral Sociology

Publisher Price: $19.99

ISBN10: 1958094218
ISBN13: 9781958094211
Publisher: Eastover Press
Published: Feb 7 2023
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.35 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

WINNER OF THE EASTOVER PRESS PRIZE FOR NONFICTION

The essays in More or Less explore the degree to which we are defined, and confined, by what we own.


In 2017, novelist Ann Patchett wrote in the NYT about planning a year buying nothing other than what she would consume-and Susannah Q. Pratt took the hint. In 2018, after some convincing (that included a family PowerPoint!) Pratt and her family decided to buy nothing, too: We undertook a 365-day moratorium on the purchase of new clothes, toys, games, books, electronics, gear, furniture, housewares, and other things that fall in the general category of 'stuff.' For twelve months we purchased only essentials - food, toiletries, light bulbs, and a few pairs of shoes for my growing boys. We stayed out of stores and off of online shopping sites. We fixed things. We made things. We went without.

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