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Put Your Life On a Diet: Lessons Learned from Living in 140 Square Feet | 
 enlarge | Author: Gregory Paul Johnson
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Category: Book
List Price: $12.99
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 186485
Media: Paperback
Pages: 176
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.6 x 0.5
ISBN: 1423603176
Dewey Decimal Number: 643.1
EAN: 9781423603177
ASIN: 1423603176
Publication Date: May 14, 2008
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Put Your Life on a Diet: Lessons Learned Living in 140 Square Feet is the ultimate resource for living a simpler life as well as leaving behind a smaller environmental footprint and living a healthier life for you and the planet. In this book author Greg Johnson guides us in five significant areas-housing, food, technology, utilities, and transportation-teaching us how to create a simpler life, reducing stress in our own lives and harm to the environment. Due to the pressures and complexity of life today, the search for simplicity is being sought after like never before. Put Your Life on a Diet: Lessons Learned Living in 140 Square Feet offers the tools to escape the "cookie-cutter" existence so many are living today and find peace in a simpler lifestyle.
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 GREAT info! December 5, 2008
BAM (Upstate NY)
WOW, great book! i have been downsizing for quite awhile now and i learned SOOOOOO much more from this book than any other downsizing or unclutter book i have read (and i have read lots!). the most helpful was the part about uncluttering by taking advantage of the latest technologies and storing documents, important papers, collections, books, music, movies and more in digital format. every bit of those types of things that i own will ALL go onto whatever pda i choose (presently my choice is the apple ipod touch) in a space small enough to fit into my pocket!!! also there is great information on space management resources, outsourcing, and how to begin the often overwhelming feeling of getting started and making it stick! i also learned alot about food and actually some useful info on food dieting. a great all around book for anyone thinking of downsizing a little, alot or to the point of having only enough usable space in your living situation to make life simple, easy and affordable. for years my goal has been to enter retirement with only a large footlocker of my possessions. this book helped me eliminate and/or store into a smaller space more stuff than i ever thought possible!i highly recommend it!! my personal buzz word for 2009 is "SIMPLIFY".
Fun book on outsourcing your life September 23, 2008
Superdog (Fort Worth, TX)
This was a fun read about a person that lives in a tiny house and outsources his life. He outsources everything, including the toilet. He lists several good suggestions as to how to liquidate assets and heirlooms. He sold his car on earth day and only uses a bike for transportation. After reading, I thought he is very lucky to be living in a bike friendly town and within biking distance of his office. I wish he had gone into more depth about how he lives in his tiny house. Life experiences including construction on the house, living, towing it to different cities, etc., would be nice. Maybe those will be in the sequel.
At 144 pages it's a quick read (the amazon page count is wrong). My main gripe is the font should have been larger and easier to read. It's a tiny book, with tiny font. It seems they were trying to match the page count to the size of his house.
His website, including his Gregory cam, have become my favorites.
 Are you really living if you don't have a toilet? August 21, 2008
LeeAnn Balbirona (Washington state)
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
I had high hopes for this book as a reflection on living in one of the Tumbleweed Tiny Houses. However, after a brief introduction summarizing some changes his life made after moving into the 150 sq ft dwelling, the rest of the book is mainly a series of guided reflections and questions on how you can pare down your life. I was hoping for more real life anectdotes rather than a self-help book. Anyway, my main criticism is that his 150 sq ft home is not really a home, since he admits he doesn't cook in it (barely ever used the sink, relies on eating out or instant foods) and there's no bathroom! That is called camping, not living. He does have some interesting ideas about using your neighborhood as your living space, but having to walk to your gym to use the bathroom every morning seems a bit unworkable for most. There is a chapter at the end where he discusses his lifestyle as not being amenable to having a spouse (no room for you, honey!) and a page where he briefly wonders how to live such a life with children (he doesn't have any that he mentions). So this book is perfect for an unmarried, unattached city dweller but probably of little use to anyone else.
FYI, all the other models of Tumbleweed Tiny houses do have toilets. Why he chose to live without one I don't know--other than maybe he couldn't get a permit or didn't want to deal with the hassle of emptying a tank.
There is still room out there for a personal memoir of actually living, not camping, in such a small space. I understand the author is trying to redefine what is necessary for living but this reader didn't find his vision completely realistic.
Nuggets August 13, 2008
J.R. (Michigan)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I found that this book has a some golden nuggets in the rough, but also that a good share of the advice is "more of the same". I did like that after each chapter there was questions to get you thinking and a place to write down some actionable items. It was a clear, quick read. For a natural declutterer like myself it wasn't a fantastic book, but overall I think most people would enjoy it.
Good lessons for all of us July 18, 2008
Jordon Cooper (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I really enjoyed this little 144 page book. There is a lot of lessons in here for people who happen to live in a little larger space. The fact of life is that we live in a world driven by consumption and the author is asking us to look a little closer at what we consume, how we consume, and what we really need in life. Not only have I enjoyed the book, I have given out a couple of copies to friends
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