Rachel’s Reviews > 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 > Status Update

"I thought I needed to earn more so I could buy more of what I wanted. And then I wanted even more stuff, which meant I needed to earn even more money. This was a cycle that gave me a lot of stuff,  a lot of debt and not much else. Suddenly it dawned on me that I couldn't remember most of the stuff I had gotten rid of over the past 11 months, but I could recall details from every one of the trips I had been on."