Well-Lived Life: One Couple's Quest To Discover The Beauty in Living With Less

Western culture wants us to spend, spend, spend. From childhood we're bamboozled and brainwashed into believing that buying stuff will make us feel better, feel sexier and that we will have 'made it' when we own houses big enough to hold all of this stuff. Possessions are the modern show pony for friends, family and peers.For many years I've hankered after a simpler life. One that will enable me to work from wherever I am. To not be tied to a geographical base. To not be reliant on one income stream. A few years ago however, I finally bit the bullet and REALLY started decluttering. I found that whilst I clearly had an emotional attachment to my belongings, the emotions I experienced on shedding my 'stuff' skin were relief and clarity and a lightness I had not experienced since childhood.Until my early thirties when I relocated from London to the south coast and met my future husband, I had lived a fairly nomadic lifestyle. Yet it had never curbed my fondness for accumulating stuff. I had admired the zeitgeist of minimalism, self-sufficiency and off-grid living without knowing how this fitted into my life or how to get there.In this book I chart the journey we took and share our tips, ideas, recipes and recommendations to help you to do the same and discover the beauty in living well with less:Save More, Owe Less - Live More, Stress Less - Be More, Own Less.