The Buy Nothing, Get Everything Plan: Discover the Joy of Spending Less, Sharing More, and Living Generously

by Liesl Clark, Rebecca Rockefeller

Genres: Self Help

Kindle Edition

Published April 14, 2020

Reviews

[Joel Choong · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quick read through the book, but not missing the main points: there’s too much in the world but we can definitely do better by giving and sharing what we have. People and communities can be built by this. Agree with all of it, but I think the book has a few too many examples.

[Candace Running · Rating 1 out of 5]

I loved the title. That's what got my attention, but I can't even say this was a "DNF," because I DNS. I'm impatient and as much as it's nice to see how the authors came about this "Plan," the stories and personal experiences were way too long. Save that for historical non-fiction, which I love, but I digress. I wanted to get to the nitty gritty. "How can I buy nothing, and get everything?" Well, I didn't buy this book, so I got what I paid for - nothing.

[Savannah · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was grueling to get through. I like the message but this did not need to be a book. It repeated the same sentiments over and over and over again without any new information. And the lists were ridiculous. Almost to the point that it was obvious they were trying to meet a word quota. It was just so hard to get through.

[Stef · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5 ⭐

[Micha Goebig]

A bit boring for me this days. Picked it up like ten years to late to provide value or new insights.

[Kathy Sharp · Rating 5 out of 5]

Inspirational. Full of great practical ideas to reduce waste.

[Pug · Rating 3 out of 5]

Solid ideas, but crazy redundant for 269 pages.

[Randall · Rating 2 out of 5]

According to this book, women are more generous than men, poor people are more generous than rich people, and capitalism is bad.

I have known many very generous rich people, many of them men. How did they get this way? Through capitalism.

Think about it. How are we supposed to buy nothing and get everything without commerce producing many of these goods in the first place? Somebody had to create them.

There are a lot of interesting tips in the book, but some of them are really time consuming.

So they are not really free, then, are they?