Comments on: Shopocalypse Now: Mormons and Buy Nothing Day?

By: Melinda

Melinda — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 04:45:54 +0000

Huh. I guess I’m totally clueless. I’d never heard of BND until this post. I’ve also never shopped the day after Thanksgiving because I don’t like crowds. I had no idea I was part of a movement.

By: Chuck McKinnon

Chuck McKinnon — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 05:41:55 +0000

Buy Nothing Day always seemed to me proof that its organizers were sheltered upper-middle-class twits -- like the kid in that brilliant Onion satire "Marxist Student Has Capitalist Parents." Sundays aside, like Bill (#12) I have plenty of Buy Nothing Days, thanks. I first encountered BND in University and thought: "You have GOT to be KIDDING me!! These sheltered little twits have to set aside a particular DAY?!!"

By: MLU

MLU — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 18:59:45 +0000

#18 That’s what I’ve always thought.

It seems a bit forlorn that those caught in the Sabbathless pursuit of success–or something that feels meaningful–would find stepping aside from commerce for one day a year to be revolutionary.

It more illustrates their essential bondage, I think.

By: kris

kris — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 17:55:41 +0000

Peter, it’s actually the 21st century and in Canada shopping does not equal culture. :)

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 13:41:47 +0000

As it turns out, the day after Thanksgiving in the United States is historically one of the busiest retail shopping days of the year

Welcome to the 20th century! And here I thought that the US was the most culturally isolated country in the world–turns out Canada is!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 05:42:48 +0000

Buy nothing day is every Sunday for a mormon.

By: paula

paula — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 05:13:26 +0000

It’s adbusters.org

By: Joanne

Joanne — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 23:15:01 +0000

Anyone interested in Buy Nothing Day and such things should check out Adbusters.com and read Kalle Lasn’s _Culture Jam_. I can’t wholly “buy” into it, but it’s a good wake-up call.

By: queuno

queuno — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 19:51:49 +0000

I think we should add the insipid office Christmas party to the list of holiday events we should boycott.

By: Tracy M

Tracy M — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 19:44:10 +0000

Ohhh- I like this idea! And I’m with Julie; I did almost all my Christmas shopping online this year- no lines, no hassle, no looking, no rude people, no hair pulling (I saw it once!)- I’ll never again hit the stores on Black Friday. No way, no way, no way.

We are spending Friday cutting down our Christmas tree. And then staying home. Thanks for the post.