Thanks for Sharing: How I Gave Up Buying and Embraced Swapping, Borrowing and Renting [Paperback]

In this fascinating book, Eleanor Tucker sets out a bold vision of how sustainable sharing can save us money, and lead to a happier future.

What is theSharing Economy?How can it help uslive more affordable, more sustainable, and ultimately more fulfilling lives?  What would happen if for one year a family pledged toshare as much as they possibly can? Instead of owning more and more stuff, what it’s like tostop owning things and borrow, lend, rent and swap instead?

These are big questions, but features writer Eleanor Tucker sets out to answer them in thisthoroughly absorbing and entertaining guideto sustainable sharing, or as it is also known, 'collaborative consumption'.

In this engrossing study, Eleanor straps us into on her year-long experiment along with her somewhat reluctant family. Over the course of the year, with the aid of various sharing apps, they willpledge to buy as few new things as possible, instead relying on thepower of sharing, lending, renting and borrowingto supply their needs.

Each chapter introduces a different type of sharing into her day to day life, from thelittle ‘things' (food, clothes)to thebigger ’things' (cars, furniture, the space around us), and shows how the growth of tech has revolutionized an age-old practice. 

The book containsbest-for recommendationsbased arounddifferent types of sharing, to create an easily accessible shortcut into sharing.

Written withwarm and relatable humouras well as adeeply-researched knowledgeof the history of sharing,this unmissable guide could truly change the way you consume.