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The Simple Living Guide: A Sourcebook for Less Stressful, More Joyful Living

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In The Simple Living Guide Janet Luhrs demonstrates how to live a deliberate, simpler life--and savor it.

As Janet Luhrs says, "Simple living is about living deliberately.  Simple living is not about austerity, or frugality, or income level. It's about being fully aware of why you are living your particular life, and knowing that life is one you have chosen thoughtfully.  Simple living is about designing our lives to coincide with our ideals."

Whether you are looking at small solutions for cutting down the stress in your life or taking the big leap toward the simpler life, this book can be your guide. Janet Luhrs, the nationally recognized founder and editor of the Simple Living Journal, brings together strategies, inspiration, resources, and real-life profiles of people who have slowed down, overcome obstacles, and created richer lives.

Discover Simple Living approaches money, work, holidays, cooking and nutrition, health and exercise, clutter, gardening, travel, and more!

444 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1997

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444 pages, Paperback
Published
September 1, 1997 by Harmony
ISBN
9780553067965
ASIN
0553067966
Language
English

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Amewolfgang
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April 26,2025
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I started picking a couple of books of this theme because I felt I needed to ground myself from my rampant consumerism so as to avoid repeating past mistakes. This book does a good job of covering most of the bases you could think of where your life could become complex.

Unique to this particular book on the subject are the real-life stories interjected from people who made a decision to simplify their life and how they did it. Very interesting and since it is a lengthy book for one of this nature, the stories help to break up the how-to portions.
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amongthedeep
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April 26,2025
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I read this every few years. I love how it inspires me to simplify in so many different aspects of my life.
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yaneYao
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April 26,2025
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Reading this huge book is NOT the way to simplify your life.
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Marigolden
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April 26,2025
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This is a nice overview of simplifying different aspects of your life. It isn't too preachy, which is nice, and the author doesn't paint herself as an enlightened one. That said, depending on where you're coming from some of the suggestions may seem totally off-the-wall. Take from it what you will.
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spakecdk
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April 26,2025
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It's not really bringing much to to think about. I read it but skimmed some of it because it got a little monotonous.
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Ali-likes-Manga
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April 26,2025
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I really enjoyed this book and all the personal stories from people. I greatly admired them for their frugal living. I wanted to pack up everything and take my family to a simplier place until my husband told me I'd last exactly three days without a store or movie theater and he's probably right. But I did take away a lot of helpful information to try and strike balance in my life between simplicity and insanity.
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OfTheIronHills
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April 26,2025
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Skimmed through a few chapters, seemed too extreme,

example: couple quits job, moves to basement of house and rents out top two stories

example: women lives in house with no electricity

and seriously she even tells you how to read a book!

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