A Life Less Throwaway: The lost art of buying for life

9. Developing a healthy attitude towards money. (Chapter 15)

10. Choosing each new item with your long-term priorities and tastes in mind. (Chapters 7, 12 and 13)

11. Developing the skills to take care of and keep the things you’ve chosen to bring into your life. (Chapter 14)

This book contains practical exercises on how to put all these steps into action. Skipping straight to the exercises may leave you with a shallower understanding of why they are important. However, if time is short and you just want to get cracking, go ahead – there’s a list of exercises on the next page, or simply flick through the book for them.

This is above all a book on how to be happy in the ultra-commercial world we live in right now. It’s meant to be useful, so please use it in the way that’s most helpful to you.

Let’s get started!

List of Exercises (#ulink_193c3da4-c566-5837-a188-12502cd518eb)

Persuade yourself of the importance of non-material actions (#ulink_3cae0dc0-1515-5128-9cd7-d323476b9089)

Sign up for BuyMeOnce mantras (#ulink_d0054bda-e460-5fa3-8936-cb5bcbc2d003)

Simple ways to combat materialism every day (#ulink_686a04f9-ebcd-59dc-bf2b-08fa21856b5b)

Identifying your homeware aesthetic (#ulink_722a3593-e004-5484-adbc-67180c454ddc)

Generating empathy (#ulink_32638acf-666a-542d-a3ff-35962841df89)

Free yourself from celebrity influence (#litres_trial_promo)

Make your own adverts (#litres_trial_promo)

Ad-blocking (#litres_trial_promo)

Separate lifestyle and product (#litres_trial_promo)

Finding your fashion identity (#litres_trial_promo)

Dressing up for the roles you play (#litres_trial_promo)

Shape up (#litres_trial_promo)

Find your true colours (#litres_trial_promo)

The mindfully curated capsule (#litres_trial_promo)

Turning necessities into luxuries (#litres_trial_promo)

If you were the last person on the planet (#litres_trial_promo)

Refusing to feel ashamed (#litres_trial_promo)

How to increase your sense of being valued by your tribe (#litres_trial_promo)

Digging deeper to find purpose (#litres_trial_promo)

Discovering your passions (#litres_trial_promo)

Kill yourself off (metaphorically) (#litres_trial_promo)

Bringing it all together to find your ‘42’ (#litres_trial_promo)

Your purpose and your purchasing (#litres_trial_promo)

The common threads of taste (#litres_trial_promo)

Where your values and brand values meet (#litres_trial_promo)

An exercise in commitment (#litres_trial_promo)

The life-less-throwaway challenge (#litres_trial_promo)

Write your own unwish list (#litres_trial_promo)

Nourishing your self-esteem (#litres_trial_promo)

Identifying impulse-buying triggers (#litres_trial_promo)

Preventing lost property (#litres_trial_promo)

Memory training for glasses (#litres_trial_promo)

Saying goodbye to an object (#litres_trial_promo)

Prioritising where your money goes (#litres_trial_promo)

Find your freedoms (#litres_trial_promo)

Connect with your special people (#litres_trial_promo)

Find your tribe (#litres_trial_promo)

Grow every day (#litres_trial_promo)

Tell yourself a better story (#litres_trial_promo)

Have a purposeful weekend (#litres_trial_promo)

Be a friend to yourself (#litres_trial_promo)

Improving your home’s mood (#litres_trial_promo)

PART I (#ulink_6f17ff32-cbec-5c3e-9bc9-972dcbe44b81)