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| The Simple Living Guide: A Sourcebook for Less Stressful, More Joyful Living | 
 enlarge | Author: Janet Luhrs
Publisher: Broadway
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (61 reviews)
Sales Rank: 47202
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 464
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.5 x 1.2
ISBN: 0553067966
Dewey Decimal Number: 646.7
EAN: 9780553067965
ASIN: 0553067966
Publication Date: September 1, 1997
Release Date: November 3, 1997
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Product Description
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.
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." In The Simple Living Guide Janet Luhrs demonstrates how to live a deliberate, simpler life--and savor it.
Discover Simple Living approaches to:
Time Money Inner Simplicity Work Simple Pleasures and Romance Virtues Families Holidays Cooking and Nutrition Health and Exercise Housing Clutter Gardening Travel
Amazon.com Review
Janet Luhrs provides a thoughtful and practical guide to simplifying our busy lives. Luhrs stresses that living simply is not about being frugal, living on a tight budget, or a modest income. Rather, living simply is being fully aware of what you're doing and why you're doing it. Luhrs demonstrates through many real-life examples how you can redesign your life and learn to savor every moment.
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 My favorite book in the world July 8, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is my favorite book in the world! Is that sacrilegious? That I'm a Christian and didn't say the Bible? tee hee. Anyway, I love that it describes simplicity in all the different catagories- clutter, housing, finances, etc. Simplicity is multi-faceted and the more I embrace it the happier I am. Also, I grew up learning about Henry David Thoreau, but this book helped me to understand him as a philosopher I really admire.
 Don't buy this book, borrow it March 27, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
The author spends too many pages chatting and not enough giving solid advice. The entire gist of the book could be boiled down to one-tenth its current size. Don't buy this book, borrow it.
I Re-read this book every year January 6, 2008
This book has changed my life. I re-read it every year for continued inspiration.
Simple living is to each his own November 7, 2007
I love this book because it said it all. We have different views about simplicity & these are only guidelines not rules written in stone.
Saving is important because in this country, a lot of people are up to neck about debt, really it is hard to make ends meet, whether one is single or married w/ children. A lot of books are in sync w/ this book like , Richard Foster's " Freedom of Simplicity" or Simple Abundance by Sarah Ban Breathnach. They are also must read. It will really help make a life lighter if we are only content w/ what is basic.
FREE YOURSELVES FROM ECONOMIC SLAVERY - READ THIS BOOK July 5, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
After reading this book, you will see that you are nothing but an economic slave to the multitudes of businesses who clamor for your dollar each day of each year.
This work shows you how to have more for less and how to have more money while having more at the same time.
Simplify, streamline and downsize and refine your needs is the hallmark of this work. YOU DON'T HAVE TO SUFFER AND DO WITHOUT you just have to revise how you **DO**
My wife brought me this book after she had read it and it changed my entire viewpoint on how we should do things.
After banging our heads against an impenetrable wall to "keep up with the Jonses" and exhausting years of hard earned savings, it was simply time to do something else.
This book illuminated the way for us.
It is an easy read that can be done very quickly. It will show you some things and give you some ideas that may have never occurred to you.
Of course, if you are still caught up in the rat race and live it, then you certianly are not ready for this book.
If you have BEEN in the rat race and have had your measure of success and find that it simply is not enough because you STILL DON'T HAVE ENOUGH then
YOU ARE READY FOR THIS BOOK.
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