The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store

by Cait Flanders

I had moved to Toronto and then Greater Vancouver because I thought I needed to be in a big city to build a name and career for myself, but I had never stopped to consider if that was what I actually wanted. It wasn’t. I knew what my values were now, and I wanted to live in a city with people who shared them.