Nov 28: Buy Nothing Day

Great video to watch on "Buy Nothing Day" aka "Black Friday".

We call it consumerism, but seriously do we really "consume" all the stuff we get. We hoard it and "warehouse" it after a couple of days of use. And then we go out and buy some more...

clipped from www.gwenbell.com You Have Enough, You Have Enough, You Have Enough No, but really. You have enough. Yesterday I read an article on Gawker about a mom featured in the Times. She won’t have enough after buying her daughter a pile of toys to buy herself “this year’s designer jeans.” Gawker expressed my dismay succinctly: “Really not the sort of thing to pump you up to stimulate our wretchedly dysfunctional economy this Black Friday by buying a bunch of useless junk with money you didn’t save from sacrifices that don’t hurt on credit cards you shouldn’t have. So, really: Good call, Times. Well, all except the doom part. I think there’s something we can do about it. How about we all get a better grip on how much we do have.