zoe olesker’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
zoe olesker
is 52% done
“that was all i was ever going to be to her: a novelty; something to talk about. i don’t want to be known as the sober one anymore. i wasn’t just the sober one. there was more to me than that. wasn’t there?”
— 6 hours, 30 min ago
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zoe olesker
is 78% done
“when you want less, you consume less — and you also need less money”
— 2 hours, 10 min ago
zoe olesker
is 75% done
“advertisements and marketing campaigns had conditioned me to believe everything was now or never. it never occurred to me to wait until i actually needed something. the truth, i was learning, was that we couldn’t actually discover what we needed until we lived without it.”
— 2 hours, 32 min ago
zoe olesker
is 65% done
“who are you buying this for: the person you are, or the person you want to be?”
— 4 hours, 8 min ago
zoe olesker
is 51% done
“when people announce your sobriety, it […] makes you feel like they have whittled down your worth to one sentence and turned you into nothing more than office gossip.”
— 6 hours, 32 min ago
zoe olesker
is 50% done
“people will always make comments when you decide to live a countercultural lifestyle”
— 6 hours, 40 min ago
