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Kitchen Table Kibitzing, November 25, 2022: Buy Nothing Day [1]

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Date: 2022-11-25  

From BoingBoing, Instead of Black Friday, try Buy Nothing Day!:

According to Zippia.com, during 2021's Black Friday, 155 million shoppers were out spending money, and businesses made $30-40 billion in sales in this post-Thanksgiving festival of consumption. On this same day, though, activists across the globe were celebrating a different cultural holiday, Buy Nothing Day (BND), which began in 1992 in Vancouver, Canada and has spread to over 65 countries. BND brings together citizens who seek freedom from the manic consumer binging currently colonizing the holidays, and call attention to the ecological and ethical consequences of overconsumption. Examples of recent activities from BND include: The "Space Hijackers," a group of activists in London, enacted the "Half Price Sale." Wearing t-shirts exclaiming "EVERYTHING IN STORE HALF PRICE TODAY!" they entered popular London retail stores and pretended to be employees, folding and straightening clothes and helping customers. They also paced leaflets explaining the philosophy of Buy Nothing Day in the pockets of the clothing items for sale. In Tokyo, activists collected free ad-carrying packs of facial tissue, which are typically given away in busy commercial shopping areas. Activists altered the ads and inserted Buy Nothing Day information sheets in the tissue packs before handing them out. In New York City, Reverend Billy and his Church of Stop Shopping held a Buy Nothing Day parade, which started at Macy's department store at 5 a.m. During stops along the parade route, Reverend Billy exorcized a cash register at Victoria's Secret and said an anti-consumption blessing in front of Old Navy.

From Positive.News, Black Friday: seven things to do instead of buying stuff

As research reveals that most Black Friday ‘deals’ are bogus, here are seven things you can do as a rebuff to rampant consumerism

Ideas include giving unused stuff away, unplugging, repairing something, and of course, resisting the urge to shop.

x Happy 25th anniversary of the day Barney the Dinosaur exploded on live TV. #MacysThanksgivingParade #Macys pic.twitter.com/DDZHTZ0ZDZ — Danny Deraney (@DannyDeraney) November 24, 2022

The long holiday weekend has already started! Come in, share your day, your weekend plans, your menus. This is an open thread.

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