Extreme Simplicity

Lila Das Gupta from the Daily Telegraph writes "we are one month into a year long shopping moratorium ... the idea not to shop for a year was born in the haze of post-Christmas deflation. Like many people, not only did we spend more than we needed or ought to, but I wondered if anyone was really the happier for it ... Fed up with the consumerism and lack of respect for the environment ... we surmised that most people that most people don't need to go shopping at all, and probably have enough things in their houses to keep them going for the whole year."