Sunday, July 01, 2007
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Not Buying ItAuthor: Judith Levine
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About This Book
Many of us have tried to call a halt to our spending at one time or another. But what if we decided not to buy anything for a whole year? Obviously, we would need necessities like food and soap, but how would be manage without new clothes, treats, entertainment?
Not Buying It takes a close look at our society's obsession with shopping and the cold turkey confession of a woman who can't live without French roast coffee and expensive wool socks, but who has had enough of spending money just for the sake of it.
Author Judith Levine and her partner Paul pursue their careers, nurture family relationships and try to keep their sanity and humour intact during their self imposed shopping-free year. Tracking their progress and lapses, Levine studies need and desire, scarcity and security and consumerism and citizenship.
A thought-provoking account of the pleasures and perils of the purchase-driven life, Not Buying It may prompt some consumers to examine their reliance on the act of buying and to explore the possibility of getting off the shop-a-holic merry-go-round.
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