For years now I’ve been participating in Buy Nothing Day. Buy Nothing Day is the alternative to Black Friday, launched by the good folks at Adbusters.
The basics:
Buy Nothing Day is fairly self-explanatory. On the official Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, Buy Nothing Day encourages consumers to not shop til they drop but to buy nothing instead. Black Friday is usually the single biggest shopping day of the year. Adbusters notes, “We’re asking tens of millions of people around the world to bring the capitalist consumption machine to a grinding – if only momentary – halt.”
Why Buy Nothing Day?:
- You have better things to do with your time than shop such as spend time with your family.
- The U.S. is considerably overwhelmed with consumerism and Buy Nothing Day is one day that attempts to highlight the fact that while over consumption is currently alive and thriving, it doesn’t need to be this way.
- Black Friday is a holiday that’s all about encouraging people to buy more, more, more. It’s not green. It’s not budget or family friendly. It doesn’t teach any life-long lessons your kids need to learn. You don’t have to be on board.
Black Friday is not a green holiday: Keep on reading this post!
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