Oxynary has a point*, don't buy anything on Black Friday... ...just save your money for Cyber Monday. :poly129: *Remark is not a real endorsement of "Buy nothing day".
The idea of a "buy nothing" day does seem pretty misguided. It's like attempting to solve the obesity epidemic with an "eat nothing" day. The point being, the answer to obesity isn't anorexia; it's education about healthy eating habits and a fundamental shift in one's lifestyle. Likewise, the answer to wasteful and…
Let it be known. 27th US, 28th International. [ame] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRQJM8Y_kLI[/ame] [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN6LX8bZFHU[/ame] [ame] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTZPuxc0VEo[/ame] [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JajJCcUUVgk[/ame]
I was gonna type a long reply to this thread and then I decided to just say fuck it. Like someone said earlier, these "boycott this" days really just shuffle numbers around. I grew up without a lot and now that I'm living on my own...if theres something that I've been waiting a year or two to buy or something that I've…
OK, so I am going to ride the fence on this one. I agree that the idea of "Buy Nothing Day" is, at its heart, a generally good idea. It's trying to get across the idea that acting looney and stomping and trampling people to get Trendy Item XYZ is a bad thing. Honestly, I do support anything that may at some point kill…
I'm not going to brag about how charitable I may or may not be. Typically the only thing I buy on black Friday is beer because you never seem to buy enough to last through Turkey day.
I agree. Some goods points were made by others. I think we can all understand that progress can be made by peronal insights and personal responsibility but that it will not be created by an initiative like Buy nothing day.
Again this just falls back into the whole "preaching to the choir" point i made earlier. I'm not suggesting that you can simply "rebrand" the day, because the skapegoating of black friday is flawed, it has less to do with anything retailers do any more to do with the insanity of your every day consumer that creates the…
Heh. You need to see my place then.* :) But seriously, its more educational awareness to help us not get so caught up in buying things to make us happy, that we loose track of what not only the humdrum for this day is supposedly for, but how we treat one another. That is, each other. Justin made a valid idea in example.…
Wow, so we raise people to be retail associates? To do or have no other options or goals in their life to what they want to spend their life as/doing 8+ hours a day? Is that what your admitting? ;) [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ypgs2s3lEzs[/ame]