The 100 Thing Challenge, (Paperback)

from rmagahiz

The origin 100 Thing Challenge is ten years old now, before anyone heard of Marie Kondō and her ideas about home organization and purging the unnecessary. It's an odd book, with not a whole lot to give you insight into what it's like to live with a stripped down set of belongings for a year but m...

from LibraryCin

The author decided he wanted to try – for one year – to live with 100 “things” or fewer. That is, 100 personal possessions. It's a way to curb his “American-style consumerism” – the always wanting more, or better, or bigger. He took about a year to plan how he'd do it, and to get down to those 10...

from justicefortibet

An inspiring story but not too much help with the how to do it part. He does a lot of rambling on about all the activities he wants to do for pleasure but not much about WHY we need to consume fewer things.

from

Great idea but the writing was disjointed and refers a lot to his blog which I had never visited. In fact the book starts off as though you are familiar with his blog and the 100 thing challenge. 4 stars for thought provoking idea & 2 stars for the writing.

from Charles_Rayburn

A fairly decent book. I found myself disagreeing with the couple topics, but never really and truly about the motives behind the challenge itself, but more so how he counted some items. He does however recognize and admit that some people might find a problem with how he counts some items, so tha...