Key ideas

• Awareness and insight
• Motivation to change
• Coming up with a plan
• Keeping to the plan
• Involving a community and accountability
• Celebrating success and learning from failure
• Revise plan as you go along
• Pace self and "slow and steady wins the race"

From the book:

1. Declutter your home
2. Take inventory
3. 3 lists - essentials, non-essentials, approved shopping list
4. Unsuscribe from all store newsletters
5. Set up a shopping ban savings account
6. Tell everyone you know
7. Replace costly habits with cheap/free alternatives
8. Pay attention to your triggers (and change your reactions)
9. Learn to live without/become more resourceful
10. Appreciate what you have