Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping by Judith Levine288 pages
Completed 4/17/10
The mere idea of this title made me break out into a sweat; there's no way I could do this. But it piqued my interest. I expected a humorous self-effacing account of a twenty-something year old forced to save and not spend. Oh, how I was wrong. I should have realized I was off point when the first chapters focused on the economics and societal effects of spending and shopping.
Levine voluntarily embarks on this no-spending journey with her roommate (a random guy in his forties...I wish more details were revealed about this weird relationship) and situations that could have been written funnily were instead dry and, quite frankly, boring. Are Q-tips a luxury? What foods are not a necessity? Ugh, spare me.
I began this book and was so annoyed a few chapters in that I had to stop. Only when I was too lazy to go get another book did I pick it back up again. Readers more politically lined may enjoy this, but for me the book was more about consumerism than quirky ironies and a better-than-thou attitude.
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