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Buy nothing Day?

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Tryphena Absent

21:42 / 01.12.02

Free things are always the best, OK well I definitely wasn't blatant consumer girl (though two pots of Ben and Jerry's for £5 was more then I could resist. Oh Tesco's in studentsville how I lovvvveeee yyoooouuu).

Hieronymus

02:30 / 03.12.02

Well piss. Next year then?

unheimlich manoeuvre

15:50 / 12.11.06

It's almost that time again.
Saturday November 25th 2006 is Buy Nothing Day (UK).
Unfortunately it coincides with Stoatie's birthday, still it's a worthy cause. Make a stand! Say NO to consumerism and buy more the day before.

Grey Cell

18:09 / 12.11.06

"Unfortunately it coincides with Stoatie's birthday, still it's a worthy cause."

It's only against blind consumerism, not against the necessary acquisition of essential goods for facilitating festive social interaction. Buying beer and cake will be allowed.

We're The Great Old Ones Now

19:00 / 12.11.06

I hate this thing. My birthday is November 26th, and a truly remarkable number of people routinely use Buy Nothing Day as a reason not to get me anything. It's not even as if there's a sound logic behind that, they just do it.

So, on a personal level, Buy Nothing Day is evil. On a more practical one, I'm always a bit confused about what it accomplishes. It won't, for example, trigger a rush of selling less crap by commercial enterprises. I much prefer Buy No Petrol campaigns and so on - they seem to have a pattern I can understand.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

19:42 / 12.11.06

It's actually two days after my birthday, so cake and stuff is still allowed...

I like Buy Nothing Day in principle, but have never yet managed to actually do it. Either I have to buy electricity or gas credits, or bus tickets, or something essential (or, y'know, beer and cigarettes)... which, yeah, I could have planned ahead and bought the day before... but surely if everyone did that, it'd make the day before Buy Nothing Day a total victory for capitalism, cos the people celebrating BND would be stocking up...

I like the idea. I don't really get how or if it works, though.

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