Review: 100 Things to Get Rid Of

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F*ck if most of us haven't gotten lost in our lives at some point, looking for a way to see through it or a guide to figure sh*t out. Sometimes you have to leave things behind to be light enough to keep trekking ahead. Here is some raw honesty to kick all your worst traits to the curb. The following book is everything I've learned on my minimalist life journey as well as things I may be currently working on. You may think this is only going to be about minimalism, getting rid of extra t-shirts and useless kitchen equipment, but it is in fact about life in general. Our lives are cluttered with so much stuff other than just tangible things. Don't think of this as your usual run of the mill minimalism book, it is SO much more than that!! This life advice may help you to become a happier, healthier person on cloud nine doing things you never dreamed were actually possible. F*ck being miserable til the day you die.

Genre: non-fiction

Publication date: November 2017

Mature content: no, but some language may be considered slightly inappropriate

 

Review: I like the idea behind this book and I agree with (most of) the items in the list...but it's not what I expected exactly. While I do agree with a lot of what is being said, a large part of it has little to do with a minimalist lifestyle. Not hating anyone, for example, is a basic principle of life and one everyone should respect - it has nothing to do with a trend or a minimalist experience. And other things are mixed together in a kind of silly way - like reading in one page that you should spend more time with your family and in the next one that you need to get rid of your cheese addiction...

I also don't care much for the tone in which the book is written - giving orders instead of advice - and the language (although there I can't really complain because the synopsis is self-explanatory). 

Overall, I think it has a lot of potential, but the list deserved to be better organised (by topics, for example) and the tone revised to be perceived more as helpful and less like a drill sergeant barking orders to a bunch of recruits. 

 

Happy readings,

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