The Buy Nothing Home is the perfect companion for your full Buy Nothing life. Read your way through our Buy Nothing Home guide, room-by-room, pick out options to try, then use the BuyNothing app to post your Gives, Asks, and Gratitude to your neighbors.
We like to explain a Buy Nothing life in 7 different actions:
- Give
- Ask
- Reuse & Refuse
- Reflect
- Make & Fix
- Share, Lend & Borrow
- Gratitude
Our Buy Nothing Home guide has a mixture of suggestions from all of these actions. The ideas here are a starting point, and we’d love to hear your ideas and discoveries!
Post pictures of your progress and inspire others to join the movement! If you use at least one of these hashtags with your posts, we can find each other online: #BuyNothingProject #BuyNothingHome #BuyNothingGetEverything #BuyNothing
Yours in BuyNothing-ing,
Liesl & Rebecca
We’ve learned a lot about how to change our own habits and perspectives over the past decade, and we’d like to offer this bit of advice: Please, don’t try to do everything at once! Choose just one ACTION, the one that seems the easiest or most appealing to you, and give it a try. Adapt our ideas as necessary for your own household and lifestyle and keep at that one first change until it’s second nature, or until you’re excited to add another action.
Remember that joy and pride are much better motivating emotions in the long run than guilt and shame. Find one first action here that addresses something you’d be happy to change because it’s driving you crazy, or something that you’d be proud to accomplish. Find the joy and humor in taking control of your stuff, and celebrate every little change you make. Over time, these small steps and actions add up and can have a profound positive impact, both personally and globally.
We thank each of you for taking action!
