The art of simplifying your life (by getting rid of stuff)

[Warpy]

5. Ah, another upper class twit writing a book to tell the peasants they don't need all that stuff

cluttering up their lives, when if they'd had his advantages, they would have been a lot more selective instead of settling for cheap crap that doesn't work have the time and has to be dusted whether it works or not.

At the ripe old age of 27, he's been there and done it all and has written what will likely be a best seller on how to fix our shitty little lives, not realizing Thoreau did that over 100 years ago.

I predict that by the age of 37, he's going to realize there's a line between streamlining and privation and he's crossed it, so it's time to go shopping all over again. That cabin in the woods becomes a lot more bearable when you realize you can get comfortable digs with all the latest amenities when the book has paid you enough royalties to afford it all.

(Sorry to all the DU minimalists who have actually made a choice rather than having economics make it for them, a sprained back has made me deeply cynical about all things)