DOING WITHOUT

BOOK RECOMMENDATION: Not Buying It - by Judith Levine
If you've ever contemplated scaling back your broadly-defined “Entertainment Budget,” but failed, Judith Levine allows you to witness and learn from her drastic experiment to quit the entire consumer rat race for a full year. She is an excellent and humorous writer. While allowing you personal access to the angst of buying generic cotton swabs and of how the constant wants vs. needs struggle affects her social space and self worth, she cleverly injects some stunning facts about American waste into this personal diary. You’ll love it. And, perhaps go a few weeks without “Uncrustables.”