Diana

Helpful and Timely

Revisado: 02-04-21

I run a small NPO that provides street outreach to unsheltered community members and home visits to those who are precariously housed. Our team read this book at the end of 2020, just before the first stimulus deadline had passed. This gave us ideas on how to help them create a spending plan and what debt they might have. We realized we needed to make a dedicated effort to get everyone signed up for the stimulus and planned a week-long event. To date, we've assisted our community members in receiving more than $40,000 in stimulus money. We also applied this thinking to those we helped with unemployment and other emergency benefits. This is a great book for small and large organizations, or even churches and individual groups.

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love it

Revisado: 06-10-20

learned a lot from this book. it was very well written. it has opened my eyes to a log that i didn't understand

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Life-changing read

Revisado: 06-17-18

Not only does it inspire you to minimize your things, it really makes sense out of minimizing processes and decisions. Since reading this, my family has gotten rid of at least 75% of our things and we are still getting rid of items, we've discovered simple joys we never knew before, and we have made life-changing decisions. There is comfort in knowing I am more important than my things. I love how the book breaks it into so many steps and Fumio really gives great examples from his own life and references to other minimalists. He describes it in a way that just makes sense and inspires you. I found that listening to the book while going through things also helps me be more realistic in the moment. The difficulty for us right now is that we live in a very materialistic world and anyone that resists is often seen as an outcast in some sense, but I imagine the confusion or worry will decrease more and more as time goes on, which seems to be how it was for the author. One of the interesting things that happened while going through this was thinking certain things were going to be a struggle for me and then finding other items were actually much harder, even though they were clearly less sentimental. If you've ever thought you were born in the wrong century, or just had this feeling of wanting a simpler life, this book is for you. If you are thinking, "I could never give up my _____," then this book is also for you! :)

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