Cait Flanders

3.5

I liked the overall read about how to improve one's life as an analogy of climbing a mountain. I would have preferred to read more personal impacts/stories of how the author achieved this instead of just talking about the steps. Overall it was a quick read - would give 3/5 stars.

This book was a bit different from what I first thought it would be but I still enjoyed it. It is a memoir of Flanders journey over a year long spending freeze. She changed and grew in ways she never anticipated. I love personal growth stories and Flanders certainly grew from her great experiment.

This is a read that’s so much more than a reduction of stuff as implied. I’m pretty sure I had read her blog and newsletter before I first read this, but she got very deep here and shared much more of her story which was very brave. All of it helped me realize what I have that works for me and what doesn’t. Her realization was so lovely: “I had to let go of the stuff I wanted the ideal version of myself to use, and accept myself for who I really was.”