"Thanks for Sharing' by Eleanor Tucker is a nonfiction book that tells of the authors trials of various methods in the sharing economy.

Instead of buying things, the author looks at how skills and items can be shared, swapped or hired and thus reducing the impact on the climate and also the families finances. This is trialed over a year and the book tells of the author and her families adventures.

This book is fascinating and opens your eyes to avenues for swapping and sharing that you didn't even know where out there.

It is well written and the added bits of humour in the writing make it a really enjoyable read.

The book is split up in readable chunks and is well written.

Highly recommended to everyone as it really does enlighten you to what is out there with regards to sharing.

Thanks to the author, publisher and NetGalley in allowing me to read in return for a review.

One woman’s foray into a year of the sharing economy instead of the spening economy (where possible). Shw finds apps to share food, cars, parking spots, random household things, skills, even dogs!

It was a fun read that made me think about doing more than just buying my clothes used and putting books in little free libraries.

Fascinating is a great word to describe this book. While I won’t be going full tilt like the author, I think there’s lots of great ideas to implement in all of our lives.

Recently, the mother of my son´s friend showed me a colourful modern looking bike her son proudly drove. Curious, I asked her shyly how much did it cost, aware that for such gadgets, one should be prepare to pay a relatively high price. To my surprise, she answered that using this bike costs around 17 Euro per month, for the rental. Confused but pleasantly surprised - as in why I never thought about it before I couldn´t imagined that someone was smart enough to create such a convenient method to use objects without necessarily owning them. When you have a child in full growing process, paying humongous amount of money for things that should be shortly replaced as no more fitting is a waste of money. Paying the rent for a bike that after 8 months should be changed is a smart investment without necessarily owning anything.

In Thanks for Sharing, Eleonore Tucker provides many more examples in this respect, aimed at creating an affordable, sustainable and practical way of life. Beyond the financial advantages of using such an approach, there is a hidden philosophy question that everyone will try to answer after reading this book, which is: Is it really worth to own things?

The modern life is no more suited for the accumulation of things, but for experiencing life in its diversity. The adepts of the noman lifestyle need few things to move from one place to another, in their plans of trying to own the world. Giving up owning for the easier and most convenient options of borrowing - mostly for free - or renting are smart moves against the overcrowded spaces with different kinds of objects. Some may be emotionally important for us, but what about all the junk that we refuse to give up on?

Thanks for Sharing is the handbook preparation for a new lifestyle and also a new type of person that rather focus on life than on what frames life. Having enough money to rent different kind of objects that do have a clear practical role announces a different mentality switch and therefore a different fo set of values guiding his or her life.

A very recommended read to anyone up to making a dramatic life-change into a more sustainable direction.

Received a digital ARC of this book via NetGalley.

Nonfiction on how to live more sustainable through sharing items that we are wasting. This had interesting ideas on living more economically and sustainably especially given the current economy. I knew about Buy Nothing Facebook pages but didn’t know about apps for food, clothing, or even pets borrowing. Definitely something to consider given there is nothing to lose.

This book never got going for me. The writing was too slow and I ended up not caring about the story at all.

I am very picky about the books I read. I need them to go at a quick pace and don't care much for a ton of details and this book just bogged down.

I do appreciate how hard it is to write,

Thanks for Sharing is an informative and entertaining guide to sustainable sharing. We live in a society where over-consumption is the norm, but Tucker is here to introduce us to the Sharing Economy. Rather than spend money on something new, Tucker raises the idea of sharing, lending, renting, and borrowing instead.

I enjoyed reading about Tucker’s year-long experiment with the dos and don’ts of sustainable sharing. Each chapter dives into something different, such as food sharing, furniture sharing, and even dog sharing, yes, you read that right. Through sharing apps, Tucker was able to connect with her community and find ways to reduce food waste, support slow fashion, and keep second-hand or upcycled items out of the landfill. Thank you to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group – White Lion for this advanced reading copy (eARC) in exchange for my honest review.

Thanks for Sharing takes a deep dive into the sharing economy. Eleanor is a wonderful storyteller and presents an honest review of her many different experiences throughout her dive into this alternate economy. I found myself inspired to explore this idea of sharing resources rather than owning everything I only occasionally need. Her honest perspective and concerns (will I stink up this rented dress if I use natural deodorant? will anyone want to borrow my mom vehicle?) all felt very relatable. Her insights into this experiment were also interesting. While I don't want to own designer clothing, like her, I might feel more put together and confident at a formal occasion if I rented something that fit really well. I also am looking into the experience outings that she described and am excited about supporting local economies as a participant rather than a consumer.

Eleanor Tucker is on a mission to be more sustainable and use her stuff wisely. The rise of sharing apps has made possible a wider range of co-use possibilities. Remember when we were little and it was common to borrow something from a neighbor? Today it is harder to do that. We don’t know our neighbors and it would be creepy if someone popped up at your front door asking to borrow your pipe wrench that you haven’t met before. Tucker signs up for various types of sharing apps and tries them out. She is a mother of two kids, married and tries her best to be green. Some of the apps she tries focus on food, clothes, stuff, and pet sharing. She gives her honest opinion on what works for her life and there are some surprises. She really likes the clothes sharing! This is all great if you live in an area where lots of people near you are also using the apps. I think if you live in a rural area where you would use lots of gas or petrol, it would not be as green a concept. This is a great experiment and a wonderful way to consume less stuff and put fewer things into the landfill. Recoup some cost from that fancy dress you bought by lending it out for a fee, get that once in a lifetime purse and share it to offset the cost, or lend out rarely used item you have taking up space. Give it a try and you might make new friends too.

Mostly a memoir based on the author’s own experiences getting used to sharing and sustainability in their everyday life, this book was a good read, but hard to relate to - primarily because most of the situations and the resources are not applicable to my own life. I think this would be a good book to read for people to learn more about sharing and get excited about it, but not necessarily for beginners as it doesn’t feel very beginner friendly. 3.5 Stars

This book was great in theory. Unfortunately I live in the US and a lot of these resources were for the UK. However the general theory of it all is pretty good and I look forward to learning more on how it can be done in the US.

A well written and entertaining guide to doing things a bit differently. Do you have food to share, or could you offer to walk a dog? Perhaps car sharing is an option. I enjoyed the suggestions although living in the country makes it much more difficult to follow the suggestions!

I love this book. Thanks for Sharing by Eleanor Tucker is a unique book that lets all open our minds about consumerism and how it affects our environment and impacts truly everything around us.

We are such an over-consumption world. Especially now with "influencers" trying to make a living trying to influence us to buy the next item we can live without. From mascaras to eyeliners, clothes, shoes, etc. When is enough, enough? There are people who have three, four bedroom homes and rent storage units for all their stuff.

As a farmer, I've utilized the idea of borrowing or sharing. Where I live we have acreage and many of us need equipment that we might use three times a year but is that item worth purchasing? An example is a tree chipper for pruning trees. So I approached our neighbors and asked if they would like to go in on a chipper and we all share it. They loved the idea. So it rotates, we all own it together.

I do believe this book is a great tool to examine where we could cut back and think about each purchase because its purchase decision with intention will help better our environment.

I would like to thank NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read and review Thanks for Sharing by Eleanor Tucker.

I have recently been appointed a local ‘Sustainability Champion’ in my workplace. We are at the stage where the team is quite new and ideas are fresh, so I wanted to look at the topic from a different perspective. Ultimately, my aim was to gain ideas as to what improvements we can make. I got that from this book! 


Thanks for Sharing is split into two sections. The first mainly focuses on smaller and individual changes that people can make to reduce waste, or mass production of goods that are used infrequently and can be shared. The second half of the book deals with more of the ‘big’ ideas. For example, the impact of commuting and travel and how people can reduce their carbon footprint.


I enjoyed looking at both sides of the same coin. When we think about the environment and sustainability, we often think of these large, mass scale results that need to take place in order to see a global benefit. However, the first section of the book goes to show that we can do that by each taking small steps. Not only that, but it emphasises the point that taking any step in the right direction is better than doing nothing at all. 
Let me say that again. Taking any step in the right direction is better than doing nothing at all.


I must admit, when reading some of these examples of sharing, I would think “yes, but…”. There are plenty of reasons why the suggestions made ‘as is’ in the book wouldn’t work for me. A lot of that is down to where I live, or my lifestyle. But, there’s more to the suggestions than just taking them as given. For example, food sharing apps are talked about in the early parts of the book. They wouldn’t be practical for me because food is listed and disappears quickly. Frankly, I don’t have the time to manage that. However, there is no reason why I can’t manage the food I buy and use more effectively. That part of the concept isn’t complicated, and I have plenty of other ways to make sure that food gets redistributed to someone who can use it.

Another surprising element I really enjoyed about this book, is the humour. Through Eleanor‘s narrative, we really get to know her and her family. We get to laugh at mishaps/irony of children puking on carpets just after the borrowed carpet cleaner is returned. We experience sullen children/teenagers that you can’t get off games consoles, or who make themselves scarce so they don’t have to help pitching a borrowed tent in the rain. I laughed out loud throughout reading this book. 
Even though Eleanor has gone well out of her way to try different aspects of the ‘Sharing Economy’, we see a family life that we all recognise in amongst all this change. The familiarity goes along way in helping readers visualise ways we can incorporate similar changes into our daily lives.

I was not expecting a memoir when reading, I thought it would be a book about how to declutter your life and be more organized.

It ends up being the author's view on things, her own experiences, and renting and borrowing.

It was an interesting book, for sure.

First off, thank you to NetGalley for the opportunity to read this book. I’ll be honest, it was a DNF for me. I tried, believe me the idea of this type of living really appeals to me. Living more sustainably, sharing more, really becoming aware of needs and wants is all something I aspire to be like; but this just left me bored. I’m not sure if it’s because I couldn’t relate to using an app for this type of loving or because it wasn’t based in my own country but I couldn’t connect. It might be something I would pick up again at a later date, probably from my local library; but for me I just couldn’t connect. It’s something I would recommend this to someone who lives in the UK.

I misread the cover and thought that this was more of a how-to than a memoir. Its more of a memoir, which unfortunately was not what I was looking for. Couldnt bring myself to finish it.

I received a fre ARC in exchange for an honest review.

On a whim, I requested Thanks For Sharing from Netgalley to learn more about the sharing economy. I feel I did and I didn’t. If you are already familiar with the concept, the information provided might seem quite basic. By that I mean what the sharing economy is and the different types of products you can share. However, I did discover a whole bunch of companies that make sharing much easier (although be aware that for many of the categories, the companies are predominantly UK/US based).

The blurb of this book claims it is well-researched, but it depends on how you personally define well-researched. Each chapter does include some information from experts explaining how sharing is not really a new concept, and providing information about how certain sharing economies came to be about and why. However, while I felt I learned a lot here, this type of information was minimal. Most of the research comes from the author’s dedication to the sharing economy and what she personally learned on her journey. Also valuable research, in my opinion.

I liked the way Thanks For Sharing was written. While each chapter introduces a new economy, the others which the author has experimented with are not forgotten and we see how she progresses with them overtime. I also really liked the author’s humour and her relationship with her family was really sweet.

With the country in the throws of an economic crisis and the insurmountable energy bill rise I was hoping Thanks for Sharing would be my saviour and help me navigate my way to a more sustainable way of living.

The bulk of the book focuses on the author's own experiences of sharing, renting and borrowing. Whether it be clothing, cars, furniture or even dogs there's an app or group on social media for it.

I have previously used Olio and Too good to go and have had some great bits from them foodwise. I also source clothing from Facebook marketplace that's free and pay it on when I've finished/outgrown it.

I don't think I'd be comfortable sharing my dogs though as obviously there are no licences required and I'd be too worried they'd fall into the wrong hands and not be returned.

And with the furniture rental, I get it, but surely in the long run it would be cheaper to purchase the item outright rather than paying a monthly fee, presumably with interest?

While Thanks for Sharing is an interesting little book, I wish it could have concentrated more on the whole recycle, re-use aspect of 'sharing'.

This is interesting- I mean, in terms of what you can share and how and what that means for sustainability and reducing waste. I was particularly intrigued by the food waste and how to make use of leftovers, cooking at home instead of eating out- so this is definitely something that maybe I could try with my clothes and books for a start.

Thanks Netgalley for the eARC.