11.   The movement toward voluntary simplicity is mainly for those who can afford it, she acknowledged.

12.   The Woods and Pierce families, like others who are changing their lives, call it voluntary simplicity.

13.   Voluntary simplicity is fine, but as recent temblors in the stock market remind us, young professional Americans may have to learn about involuntary simplicity.

14.   Voluntary simplicity with cheap panache.

15.   Gerald Celente, a sociologist with the Trend Research Institute in New York, believes voluntary simplicity will take off in the next decade.

16.   Andrews, who touts voluntary simplicity in a weekly Seattle Times column, receives hundreds of requests each month for printed study circle guidelines.

17.   Most initiates to voluntary simplicity just want to reduce clutter in their personal lives.

18.   Some sociologists have said that voluntary simplicity is only an option for the well-to-do, a trend not pursued by those who have ever struggled to make ends meet.