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

Fortunately, there was an application that could help with this, which pulled together a long list of the 300-plus newsletters I had apparently subscribed to over the years, and put a big red “unsubscribe” button next to each one. Again, there were bookstores, outdoors stores, home decor stores, and department stores. Unsubscribe, unsubscribe, unsubscribe, unsubscribe. But there were also airlines and travel deal websites that notified me about discount codes and flash sales. I struggled with the decision to remove these future e-mails from my life. I am allowed to spend money on travel this year. Shouldn’t I try to save money whenever I book a trip? I am a personal finance blogger, after all! I can’t tell people I spent more when I could have spent less.