Buy Nothing Day!!! - Nov25th

[Karlin]

on the fourth Friday of November each year, Buy Nothing Day [BND] is for people to reflect on rampant consumerism and its fallout.

We have been brainwashed, to a degree, to have a hard-on for shopping. It becomes an obsession, we get a certain "high" when we whip out our....wallets , and shove our hands into our...purses!

- do you recognise this feeling? No? Then you are under its spell a bit too much because it is real. Get a grip for a day, stop shopping Nov 25th, the fourth Friday of November each year

evidence is that we spend more when we are stressed, as long as the stress isn't over a shortage of money!!

With Xmas at the door, we are about to experience this shopping fever at its highest temperature.

Personally, "I refuse" ... all of it, I buy nothing from Dec 1st to the 25, no gifts period.

Scrooge? No, thats part of the myth, like the way they bastardised Santa into consumer's daddy figure. Telling our children these lies does them no favours, and brings ditrust into the family unit << ok, maybe thats over the top, but you get my passion about Xmas now: I refuse to take part.


BND website:
http://www.ecoplan.org/ibnd/ib_index.htm

the Church of the Necessary Interruption,
the Revolution of Exalted Embarrassment,
pull away from the product!!
From: Rev Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping -
http://www.revbilly.com/blog/?cat=2

Straight Goods article:
http://www.straightgoods.ca/ViewConsForum5.cfm?REF=44

 

[Reverend Blair]

RE: Buy Nothing Day!!! -

I'll buy nothing on the 25th, but I think it's just as or more important to buy as little as possible the rest of the time too.

 

[Jay]

Make sure you stock up on beer and smokes on the 24th.

 

[Reverend Blair]

RE: Buy Nothing Day!!! -

I'll look after my own inventory if you don't mind, Jay.

 

[sj007]

lol whell what can a student afford anyways and y does it have to be a fryday then again if i make my friends pay the movie for me and what about my bus ticket does tht count?

 

[Jay]

Re: RE: Buy Nothing Day!!! -

I'll look after my own inventory if you don't mind, Jay.

I don't mind in the least Rev.

I wasn't necessarily replying to your post though... It's just good advice if your not going to buy anything on one day that you stock up the day before.

 

[Reverend Blair]

lol whell what can a student afford anyways and y does it have to be a fryday then again if i make my friends pay the movie for me and what about my bus ticket does tht count?

Take a Friday off, 007. Do something free.

Basics don't count, and that would include transportation to work and school, but why don't you have a bus pass? It would save you money most likely, and you wouldn't have to carry tickets or change.

 

[sj007]

ah whell taking frydays off is what i do best so its probably what ill be doing

 

[zenfisher]

I wish that would happen downhere...unfortunately the day after Thanksgiving seems to be buy everything and make the stores open from 6am to 11pm day. Jeez...do you really need to open a store beyond its regular hours? :evil: :blah5: :hmph:

 

[missile]

I'm not planing to buy anything at all until Nov.28th [Cheque Day] and then nothing until after Christmas.

 

[Canucklehead]

RE: Buy Nothing Day!!! -

Buy a good quality whatsit for a couple extra $$ and you'll save a few trips to Wallmart et al annually to replace their broken cheapo version ... not to mention a few $$ in the long run... common sense? ... apparently not.

 

[missile]

Straight on,that's the only way to shop.I never buy the cheapest and lowest quality products because I hate having to replace stuff over and over. I have to say that some second hand stuff can give great service tho[my washer and dryer are good examples[ Reconditioned and bought from a repairman]

 

[C'est quoi]

RE: Buy Nothing Day!!! -

1 day a year is easy, mmmm but it is friday . Can't possibly do it if for 1 week.

 

[unclepercy]

lol whell what can a student afford anyways and y does it have to be a fryday then again if i make my friends pay the movie for me and what about my bus ticket does tht count?

Take a Friday off, 007. Do something free.

Basics don't count, and that would include transportation to work and school, but why don't you have a bus pass? It would save you money most likely, and you wouldn't have to carry tickets or change.

I love this forum. I read something, and sometimes, it makes me go, "WHAT?!" Take Friday, the 25th, off? That's Black Friday! In the US, it's the day after Thanksgiving - the biggest shopping day of the year. Almost the entire work force (except emergency workers) are off work. The cash registers will be ringing non-stop,
and the parking lots will be full to the brim.

Uncle

 

[Nascar_James]

lol whell what can a student afford anyways and y does it have to be a fryday then again if i make my friends pay the movie for me and what about my bus ticket does tht count?

Take a Friday off, 007. Do something free.

Basics don't count, and that would include transportation to work and school, but why don't you have a bus pass? It would save you money most likely, and you wouldn't have to carry tickets or change.

I love this forum. I read something, and sometimes, it makes me go, "WHAT?!" Take Friday, the 25th, off? That's Black Friday! In the US, it's the day after Thanksgiving - the biggest shopping day of the year. Almost the entire work force (except emergency workers) are off work. The cash registers will be ringing non-stop,
and the parking lots will be full to the brim.

Uncle

Yep. The official start of Christmas season.

 

[Reverend Blair]

RE: Buy Nothing Day!!! -

Imagine if everybody was to send a message that day, Uncle. Imagine if everybody said, "Nope, not shopping today...gonna stay home and listen to Tom Petty singing 'You're Jammin' Me' over and over instead."

Wanna bet that the culture of consumerism would begin to change pretty quickly?

 

[Nascar_James]

Re: RE: Buy Nothing Day!!! -

Imagine if everybody was to send a message that day, Uncle. Imagine if everybody said, "Nope, not shopping today...gonna stay home and listen to Tom Petty singing 'You're Jammin' Me' over and over instead."

Wanna bet that the culture of consumerism would begin to change pretty quickly?

November 25th "Black Friday" here is the equivalent of "Boxing Day" (December 26th) in Canada. Why don't we tell all Canadians to not shop on Boxing Day, Rev. We'll tell them that they can't get their discounts. Let's see what they say?

 

[Reverend Blair]

RE: Buy Nothing Day!!! -

I'm all for that, James.

You seem to think that this is being forced on you or something though. You sound scared, actually. Buy Nothing Day is purely voluntary, James. Just a suggestion for a way to say no to crass and over-commercialised society that values shopping for plastic crap over all else.

 

[Ocean Breeze]

Re: RE: Buy Nothing Day!!! -

Imagine if everybody was to send a message that day, Uncle. Imagine if everybody said, "Nope, not shopping today...gonna stay home and listen to Tom Petty singing 'You're Jammin' Me' over and over instead."

Wanna bet that the culture of consumerism would begin to change pretty quickly?

November 25th "Black Friday" here is the equivalent of "Boxing Day" (December 26th) in Canada. Why don't we tell all Canadians to not shop on Boxing Day, Rev. We'll tell them that they can't get their discounts. Let's see what they say?

go for it. as we would welcome it .......and make a powerful statement .......particularly on the biggest retail therapy day of the yr. Not a problem.

 

[Ocean Breeze]

lol whell what can a student afford anyways and y does it have to be a fryday then again if i make my friends pay the movie for me and what about my bus ticket does tht count?

Take a Friday off, 007. Do something free.

Basics don't count, and that would include transportation to work and school, but why don't you have a bus pass? It would save you money most likely, and you wouldn't have to carry tickets or change.

I love this forum. I read something, and sometimes, it makes me go, "WHAT?!" Take Friday, the 25th, off? That's Black Friday! In the US, it's the day after Thanksgiving - the biggest shopping day of the year. Almost the entire work force (except emergency workers) are off work. The cash registers will be ringing non-stop,
and the parking lots will be full to the brim.

Uncle

gosh, that sounds like a bit of a buzz....... hmm. Could it be this "high" that has yielded the increased number of shopping addicts??