Survey: How Are You Celebrating Buy Nothing Day?

Lloyd Alter
Living / Culture
November 23, 2007

It's Black Friday, the biggest US shopping day of the year, when stores finally get into the black. Next is Cyber Monday when the geeks who slept through Friday get around to shopping for bargains. It is also Buy Nothing Day, "A 24 hour moratorium on consumer spending - participate by not participating" based on the position that it is all too much, that it is all about waste, conspicuous and excessive consumption and being manipulated by advertising to spend more than we have on things we don't need.

Tags: Conspicuous Consumption | Wretched Excess

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