Buy Nothing Day
Buy nothing day is November 23rd in the US and Canada (today) and November 24th internationally. The idea is to bring attention to over-consumerism and the waste it creates and thus the damage it does to our planet. Kalle Lasn of Adbusters says: “Driving hybrid cars and limiting industrial emissions is great‚ but they are band–aid solutions if we don’t address the core problem: we have to consume less. This is the message of Buy Nothing Day. “
Personally I am a terrible shopper, meaning I am not good at it at all! I just don’t get satisfaction from wandering around stores looking, trying things on and deciding I need it. Most often I only buy things when I really have to get something, and even then I do not really enjoy it. Of course I sometimes buy things that I do not really need or even use – like a fancy phone + personal organizer that I bought last year at the electronics market in Singapore and have not really used. Everybody else were buying lots of stuff there so I kind of thought I should buy something too. Stupid move, since I did not really need it.
Today I have managed to participate in the North American version of Buy Nothing Day. I have not bought anything, well with the exception of a bus ticket and a chicken salad for lunch. I think that is okay – the day is not called Eat Nothing Day, is it? And tomorrow I hope to participate in the international version of Buy Nothing Day. That would make two days in a row without any consumerism from my side. Surely it will not make a big impact on the total consumerism of the world, but I guess every little bit helps, eh?
Personally I am a terrible shopper, meaning I am not good at it at all! I just don’t get satisfaction from wandering around stores looking, trying things on and deciding I need it. Most often I only buy things when I really have to get something, and even then I do not really enjoy it. Of course I sometimes buy things that I do not really need or even use – like a fancy phone + personal organizer that I bought last year at the electronics market in Singapore and have not really used. Everybody else were buying lots of stuff there so I kind of thought I should buy something too. Stupid move, since I did not really need it.
Today I have managed to participate in the North American version of Buy Nothing Day. I have not bought anything, well with the exception of a bus ticket and a chicken salad for lunch. I think that is okay – the day is not called Eat Nothing Day, is it? And tomorrow I hope to participate in the international version of Buy Nothing Day. That would make two days in a row without any consumerism from my side. Surely it will not make a big impact on the total consumerism of the world, but I guess every little bit helps, eh?
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