Former Chatelaine publisher Rev. Lee Simpson tries a year of buying nothing

Photo: Ingrid Bulmer, Chronicle Herald


Lee Simpson, who was the publisher of Chatelaine magazine for 16 years before becoming a retired United Church minister in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia and a regular contributor the United Church Observer, is attempting to spend a year buying nothing. Well, not nothing, but not much.

Simpson acknowledges in her introduction to the fortnightly series that, as