Nov. 29th is Buy Nothing Day. CURB YOUR CONSUMPTION

[Gayowulf]

Nov. 29, this coming friday, is Buy Nothing Day. It's the day for all us first world piggies to give it a rest.

How you celebrate this day is up to you... as long as it doesn't involve consuming.

I, along with a group of other people plastered the amll with posters, and will be putting chalk to sidewalk tomorrow night, whith the grand finale being to drape a BND2k banner over the entrance to the mall.

The university radio station aired this bit today as well:

The average North American consumes five times more than a Mexican, ten times more than a Chinese person, and thirty times more than a person from India.

(Burp!)

We are the most voracious consumers in the world... a world that could die because of the way we North Americans live.

Give it a rest!
November 29th is Buy Nothing Day.

[Toefur]

It's a good concept, but just a pity that the majority of people don't even care and laugh at things like this.

[Jan]

I bought nothing today or yesterday, but I really need to buy groceries tomorrow (29th) So can I be exempted? :p

[Gayowulf]

i suppose, becasue here in canada tomorrow is the 28th. Or you could just put off groceries for 24.hrs. :)

[Blank Verse]

Well, I support the cause either way, but it's especially easy for me cause I'm currently broke.

[jmiller]

Originally posted by Blank Verse
Well, I support the cause either way, but it's especially easy for me cause I'm currently broke. Yeah same here.
I did all my purchasing today, and also plan on not spending a cent tomorrow. :)

[Daniel]

Crap.....what am I gonna eat for lunch then?

[Blank Verse]

Hey, why not support the 30 hour famine at the same time Daniel :D

[Daniel]

Originally posted by Blank Verse
Hey, why not support the 30 hour famine at the same time Daniel :D

*stomach grumbles*

[notnamed]

So is this purchace nothing or consume nothing? The thread title makes me think purchace, but the posts make me think consume...my doc said don't skip any meals, so I can't not consume anything...but I can not buy anything, I'm broke :p

[Daniel]

You can't buy any products...

[trenzterra]

Why is it so dumb not to buy anything? I think this is sooo dumb. We were born to buy and eat.

[notnamed]

Ummmmm perhaps because of the reasons posted in the first post? Because:


The average North American consumes five times more than a Mexican, ten times more than a Chinese person, and thirty times more than a person from India.

And perhaps because it's true? Why do you think hundreds of thousands of youth fast for 30 hours every year? Because millions of people endure worse! That's why. If we endure even a little of what other people do, it will encourage us and others to give and help the people who can't help themselves. There isn't a direct monetary help thru this program, but with others such as 30HF, there is direct monetary help to people who desperately need it. For those who don't know, 30HF is a time when youth all over the nation fast for 30 hrs once a year to raise money for world hunger (in particular, IIRC, African hunger) and then ship all the money off to World Vision which distributes the food to the people who need it more than we do.
That's why...

[Blank Verse]

Originally posted by trenzterra
Why is it so dumb not to buy anything? I think this is sooo dumb. We were born to buy and eat.

Born to buy and eat? If that's all your on this Earth for, trenz, than I pity you.

[syd]

Originally posted by trenzterra
Why is it so dumb not to buy anything? I think this is sooo dumb. We were born to buy and eat.

Actually, we were born to KILL and eat.

[Blank Verse]

Originally posted by syd
Actually, we were born to KILL and eat.

:nervous: I'm glad you live in another province...

[Gayowulf]

easy for you to say :(

[trenzterra]

Originally posted by Blank Verse
Born to buy and eat? If that's all your on this Earth for, trenz, than I pity you. Yeah, Kill, Buy, Eat, Sleep.

[tandoc]

Originally posted by Gayowulf
Nov. 29, this coming friday, is Buy Nothing Day. It's the day for all us first world piggies to give it a rest.

How you celebrate this day is up to you... as long as it doesn't involve consuming.

I, along with a group of other people plastered the amll with posters, and will be putting chalk to sidewalk tomorrow night, whith the grand finale being to drape a BND2k banner over the entrance to the mall.

The university radio station aired this bit today as well:

The average North American consumes five times more than a Mexican, ten times more than a Chinese person, and thirty times more than a person from India.

(Burp!)

We are the most voracious consumers in the world... a world that could die because of the way we North Americans live.

Give it a rest!
November 29th is Buy Nothing Day.

its a bit l8 for me to read this - i've already bought stuff - but then there is tomorrow, and the day after that...

[GregT]

i didnt buy nothing, but i usually never do anyways :o

[harrypower]

Buy nothing Day Advert shown on CNN (http://www.adbusters.org/abtv/movies/uncommercials/buy_nothing_day/CNN_med.html)

Quicktime required

[Canuckkev]

Would buying a few 4 litre jugs of milk and seeing if anyone can drink it all within an hour be allowed? It's not really "consumption" if we don't keep it down, is it?

[Daniel]

Wouldn't it be better if the world was communist?