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In which I reclaim some of my activist street cred
Buy Nothing Day is November 25th.
Is there really any good reason to go shopping? Just sit back, hang with your friends and family, and boggle over the people who would risk death by trampleation just to get a DVD player for $30 at Wal-Mart. 'Cause, seriously, what the hell?
(Of course, I may be a corporate sellout and end up having to work a couple of days that day, I wonder how well saying "Y'know, I can't come in after all, I realized that encouraging pointless consumerism is against my religion, and this is one of our most sacred holidays." would fly with the managers.)
Is there really any good reason to go shopping? Just sit back, hang with your friends and family, and boggle over the people who would risk death by trampleation just to get a DVD player for $30 at Wal-Mart. 'Cause, seriously, what the hell?
(Of course, I may be a corporate sellout and end up having to work a couple of days that day, I wonder how well saying "Y'know, I can't come in after all, I realized that encouraging pointless consumerism is against my religion, and this is one of our most sacred holidays." would fly with the managers.)
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One of the reasons he's not in retail this year.
As for me...whatever stuff I have planned for Yuletide gifts can wait till during or after my as-yet-unfinalized-plan trip to Florida. Which will be sometime in December.
But I join with you in spirit. Let us give our battle cry to the world--"BAH HUMBUG!"