‘Buy less!’: why Sewing Bee’s Patrick Grant wants us to stop #shopping

Grant is very exercised about this idea, and the book’s affably bossy subtitle is a much better clue to his personal energy than its #minimalist title: Stop Buying So Much Rubbish: How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier.

Less is a sort of anti-shopping guide, a plea to think very carefully before we part with our cash. Which might seem surprising given that Grant has himself for 20 years been a #retailer, designer and #clothing manufacturer

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‘Buy less!’: why Sewing Bee’s Patrick Grant wants us to stop shopping

The Sewing Bee presenter is a designer and clothing manufacturer who is also fiercely anti-consumerism. He discusses how he balances his beliefs with his business

^{Paula Cocozza (The Guardian)}