Is everyone celebrating Buy Nothing Day on Friday????

[seafey]

Go here for more information: http://www.adbusters.org

Not that it's not self-explanatory or anything...

[politicat]

1. yep. Not even leaving the house if I can help it.

No Xmas music.

Pcat

[mike_c]

2. I certainly won't be buying anything....

[flvegan]

3. Yup. I'll be at the mall, though...

For Fur Free Friday (annual protest).

[Warpy]

4. I always hibernate from the Friday after Thanksgiving

until the consumer feeding frenzy is finally over during the second week of January. I buy food. That's it.

Part of it is because I despise crowds. Part of it is because I can't stand crass commercialism. Part of it is because Bush has had me unemployed for 14 months.

[candy]

5. Works for me,but I've never shopped the day after Thanksgiving-

I always had to work. I guess I really don't count but I wish all of you well.

I'm going to do my bit against consumerism this year by cutting back on gifts and giving the difference to a charity.

[One_of_8]

6. Is thrift store shopping allowed?

I might do some of that, because there is a great thrift store in Napa, where my folks live, that I like to visit whenever we are there.

But I have no plans to shop at any retail stores or otherwise on Friday. Weather permitting, we're going to take a nice two-mile hike, and look for fresh greenery to make our own Christmas wreaths. I decided I'm not going to buy either a live or dead Christmas tree this year, because I can't afford it. So am going to try to make a couple of really nice wreaths instead.

[0rganism]

7. For me, every day is Buy Nothing Day

At least, the longer I go without work, the more it gets to be that way. First I celebrated Buy Nothing Weekends, then Buy Nothing Weeks, now it's getting to be entire Buy Nothing Months -- excepting bulk foods and the mortgage and utilities.

[Lady Effingbroke]

14. I know exactly where you're coming from.

I've been out of work for almost a year. It may be a "Buy Nothing Life" for me from now on, bills excepted.

[scarletwoman]

8. I've NEVER shopped the day after Thanksgiving.

So this won't be any change for me. I've never understood why anyone would want to go out and battle the crowds on that day, anyway -- ugh. :P

sw

[Sputnik]

48. Exactly

I'd rather sandpaper a bobcat's butt in a telephone booth than go shopping the day after Thanksgiving.

[thinkingwoman]

9. I certainly won't be buying anything Friday

I'll be working.

I've given employees the day off, which means I'll be doing their work and mine.

What a nice boss I am.

[NMDemDist2]

10. lol I'm that kinda boss too... but I'm closed Friday

thank heavens!

[CAcyclist]

25. I'll be closed too.

I may be painting the walls, though.

[AndyTiedye]

11. I May Spend the Day MAKING Yule Presents

Homemade presents always seem to be more appreciated than the store-bought ones anyway.

I NEVER shop the day after Thanksgiving.

That said, we should try to be careful and selective about what
we boycott. If "boycott everything" takes hold in the blue states,
while there's business-as-usual in the red states, guess what
happens to the blue states' economies? Boycott those who deserve it.
Many of us already do, but don't do it blindly. There are a lot of
small businesses that are barely hanging on, and some of them are blue
too.

[sundancekid]

35. amen.amen.amen to all your points

[laheina]

40. :) I'm making candles, scarves, and liquor. Whoopee! nt

[Freddie Stubbs]

12. I didn't think that it was necessary this year

since it was so sucessful last year.

[Spock_is_Skeptical]

13. I will be observing Buy Nothing Day on Friday.

Just like last year, and the year before... ;)

[yellowdogintexas]

15. I will be busy baking at home, myself

I have cakes to bake and freeze for a charity auction the next weekend.

I do not like to get out into the shopping mania at all! Any shopping I do holiday wise will be done on Wednesday evenings ...quietest shopping night of the week.

[grilled onions]

16. won't leave the house

Don't buy gifts. Won't be buying a tree etc. Guess you can call us Scrooge Inc. Easy to do when their are always more bills then there is money thanks to * and company!

[talkwarrior]

17. Don't understand logic of buy nothing day

Look, I'm a Socialist, so I ain't exactly a proponent of buying useless shit to pad the pockets of capitalists, yet I really question the logic of Buy Nothing Day. If we stop buying, we're just hurting the economy. All that Buy Nothing Day does is put people out of work. I really think you need to rethink a better way of changing the system.

They wouldn't let me create a new thread to do this, so I'd like to take the opportunity to invite people to listen to, and hopefully call in during my live radio show. Please check it out:

http://talkwarrior.com

[Kimber Scott]

18. I don't understand it either. I know a lot of people who depend on

other people to buy things, so they can feed their families. The first people put out of work during a boycott are the ones who need the work the most. If I need to buy something on Friday, I will.

[laheina]

39. If you need to, go to an owner operated establishment.

Skip the corporate stores. Most of that money flows away from the local economy anyway. :)

[demgrrrll]

19. I won't buy a damn thing on Friday. Not a damn thing. eom

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[seafey]

23. Ok, but the economy hurts us and...

the only way you can really vote these days is with your dollars. If you don't support the corporations that outsource to foreign countries, that abuse the environments of poor countries, that exploit workers in third world countries, etc. you fight against them by spending your money with people that you find do honest business in the U.S., that don't exploit natural resources, and that produce goods that are durable, biodegradable, and that help us be self-sustaining instead of imperialistic. Whew. That's like the longest sentence ever.

Thanks for listening.

[CAcyclist]

26. I think that's a good way of looking at it , but we as a

society consume too much and waste too much, so its good to not buy anything on the busiest shopping day of the year.

[seafey]

29. Yeah I know...

I feel VERY strongly about Buy Nothing Day. (In favor of it.) I was just trying to explain to TalkWarrior the logic of it since he said he didn't understand it. :toast:

[CAcyclist]

55. Whoops, sorry - I forgot to check who you were responding to

I wouldn't worry too much about Talkwarrior's opinion. I have a feeling he won't be here for long.

[newyawker99]

46. Hi talkwarrior!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[2bfree]

20. count me it as well.

This year we are changing our ways.

[greekspeak]

21. It will be a study day for me, and I will go to the gym as I do on Fridays

I am not planning on buying anything for anyone for Christmas this year, and I am trying to get people not to buy me anything. It is not as if I have any money anyway. This shopping frenzy each year is a gross bastardization of the meaning of any holiday.

[Tyler Durden]

22. We'll be in Goderich, Ontario: Meeting with MP!

We'll be in the MP's office discussing re-instating my late Father's citizenship, and therefore getting mine on the spot.

Wish me luck, we may be CANADIANS in a week.

[JNelson6563]

28. Good luck Tyler!

Let us know how it all works out! :toast:

Julie

[CAcyclist]

24. Yes, great site

Off- topic :There's another one - Carbusters - I'll need to find the link and post it sometime

[Triana]

27. I refuse to buy anything not absolutely necessary

...all holiday season (save food, etc.) - no mall-hopping, holiday shopping, online ordering, etc for me - unless it's something I have got to have and isn't holiday related (something I'd buy anyway).

F*ck it. I'm not giving those bastards one dime that I don't have to.

[Flammable Materials]

30. I'm taking it one step further ... EAT NOTHING DAY on Thursday.

Not a thing. Not a single thing fron sun-up until bed. I'm keeping a small glass of water at my desk just to keep my mouth from getting dry since I have to talk on the phone. I'll be sitting at the family Thanksgiving dinner table with an empty plate, thank you very much.

[laheina]

41. Right-on!

I'm gonna eat a little (I'm weak), but I'm making my presents this year, and I'll prolly abstain from purchasing through at least the weekend.

Fight the (corporate) power!

[Bridget Burke]

47. Is your family part of the Military Industrial Complex?

How will "making a stand" at Thanksgiving Dinner help the world?

[LeftyMom]

31. Probably not.

We'll be out of the town for the day and picking up a few things we can oly get that direction makes a lot more sense from an anti-comsumerist standpoint than making a second trip later. Normally we do participate, though.

[Lugnut]

32. No fear

Not only will I not be buying anything on Friday I will not be leaving my house. I don't have a grudge against myself.

[TrustingDog]

33. i usually don't buy much anyway, 'cept food and beer, a few trinkets.

conspicuous consumption is a sin called gluttony. shove that up your moral assholes, you bush lovers.

[sonias]

34. I'm buying nothing in the US

However I will be visiting my Mom near a border town close to Mexico so I will be shopping in Mexico. Only Mexican made crafts etc.

Sonia

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

36. Not even leaving the house.

I won't step foot in a mall until February at the earliest and I am done shopping for my daughter, husband and best friend anyway.

[proudbluestater]

37. I might have to buy a Big Gulp, but that's it.

I have never shopped the day after Thanksgiving anyway. Too many people out that day!

I don't plan on buying much the entire season. Then only at Barnes and Noble and Bed, Bath and Beyond and Costco if I get the ambition to drive out of town for them.

[WCGreen]

38. Buy locally and then go and stand around

Ar the Mall blocking traffic, gawkin' at all them pretty lights.....

[LiberteToujours]

42. Useless

And the corporations know it. They have a little smirk at our cute little day of protest, knowing full well that we'll go and make up for it the other 364 days of the year. Then they breathe a sigh of relief that this is the best we can come up with.

[RivetJoint]

43. Hell no

I need new skis. Going to Colorado in Dec!

[Dulcinea]

44. I'll be recovering from outpatient surgery, so YES.

Even under normal circumstances, wild horses wouldn't drag me shopping the day after Thanksgiving.

I shop online as much as possible! I hate malls unless there's no one there, like on Tuesday mornings or something like that.

[robbedvoter]

45. Doing it about 300 days a year, will do it on Friday too.

[hatrack]

49. Not a dime

It's our fourth year of BND, and we'll be honoring its intent throughout Christmas. Some charitable donations, and Christmas dinner, but that's all, folks.

[mulderig]

50. no shopping for me either....

I'm also cutting out shopping at Red Businesses year round. I think it is important for us all to get off the consumption treadmill anyway, for besides stretching the earth's limited resources, it just forces people into a cycle of work, spend, debt, work.

I really like the idea people mentioned of homemade gifts for christmas. My parents love to watch the birds from their kitchen window, so this year I will be making them two nesting boxes and a feeder (from some beautiful leftover cedar) to hang on the trees in their back yard.
M.

[madison2000]

51. Every day is Buy Nothing Day

when you're unemployed.

[tavalon]

52. As always

It kicks off my season of avoidance. I happily skip the bizarre consumer frenzy that is kicked off on that day.

[Pacifist Patriot]

53. No one could pay me to buy anything on that day.

Ten years of working retail will cure you of any desire to go near a store on Black Friday. I haven't stepped foot out of my house the day after Thanksgiving in eons.

[Fleurs du Mal]

54. Wallet will be in lockdown

[ScreamingMeemie]

56. Well, I'd love to but we have an emergency trip to go get Grandma

in WI that day...so I don't think we can do it. Can't make it 500 miles on a tank of gas. :(

[WI_DEM]

57. yeah, but I never go shopping the day after Thanksgiving.