Thanks for Sharing (how one woman gave up shopping!)

Thanks for Sharing is the inspiring story of one woman who decides to join the sharing economy, and give up buying stuff. She and her family pledge to share as much as they can over one year, and give up ‘owning things’, instead they lend, rent and swap in this tale of ‘collaborative consumption’.

Read more on no-dig gardening and humane slug/snail deterrents. If you live with animal friends, read up on pet-friendly gardens (some recommended flowers and fruit trees are not safe). Also avoid netting to protect food (just leave some for wildlife!)

Avoid facing indoor plants to outside gardens, to help stop birds flying into windows.

Each chapter includes a different type of sharing (food, clothes, cars, furniture, the space around us) plus tips to help you share (including useful apps).

What makes this book different is that it’s a real funny read, and not at all preachy. Anyone from any walk of life is sure to be inspired.

She begins her experiment admittedly not really knowing much about her fridge’s ‘two salad drawers’ that were for food her grandmother would have said were ‘on the turn’. So begins and adventure where is learning as much as we will by the end of the book.

Eleanor is a one-woman guinea pig who dives straight into sharing everything from food to fashion to furniture. She makes it all incredibly accessible due to her engaging writing styles, and warts-and-all reportage. Tessa Clarke (co-founder OLIO sharing app) 

Even with some hilarious misunderstandings and mishaps, I came away from reading this book, wanting to try sharing more regularly. Rebecca Heaps (founder of Tentshare)

About the Author

Eleanor Tucker is a former creative and features writer for newspapers, who now writes on the sharing economy. Originally from Oxford, she now lives in Scotland.