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Wednesday, 24 November 2004

Buy Nothing Day
from http://urbanfox.blogspot.com/

This Saturday 27 November (or Friday 26 November if you're in the USA) is Buy Nothing Day.

The official website says:

"For 24 hours, millions of people around the world do not participate -- in the doomsday economy, the marketing mind-games, and the frantic consumer-binge that's become our culture. We pause. We make a small choice not to shop. We shrink our footprint and gain some calm. Together we say to Exxon, Nike, Coke and the rest: enough is enough. And we help build this movement to rethink our unsustainable course."

Yours Truly, rancette at 12:01 AM PST

Updated: Wednesday, 24 November 2004 12:15 PM PST

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Wednesday, 24 November 2004 - 2:54 PM PST

Name: Adam
Home Page: http://www.myheadtrip.com

The friday after thanksgiving is the busiest shopping day of the year. it's gonna be tough to make a dent.

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Wednesday, 24 November 2004 - 7:54 PM PST

Name: chinq
Home Page: http://chinquapin2.tripod.com/nutty/

Rancette,

The funny thing is, every "day ofter Thanksgiving" is Buy Nothing Day for me. I can't deal with the pigs at the trough atmosphere. I used to be a Chirstmas Eve shopper, until "Downtowns" died.

Here's a great gift catalog, I'm gonna splurge on a goat this year-
http://catalog.heifer.org/index.cfm

Chinquapin

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Thursday, 25 November 2004 - 7:08 AM PST

Name: rancette

I totally understand!! I am not a "Shopper". It took me awhile to figure out that the day after Thanksgiving was the big sale day. And I was trying to figure out if I would have gone shopping that day anyway. I just made sure I have enough gas & groceries, so I don't think I'll be buying anything.

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