● 11.22.22

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●● Buy Nothing This Coming Friday

Posted in Finance at 9:15 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

“Buy Nothing Day” Black Friday has mostly polluted ‘Linux’ sites with mindless marketing spam (it’s just Tuesday and it’s already happening)

Image: Capitalist and communist: Buys unnecessary stuff to impress the authorities; Impresses the authorities to get necessary stuff

Summary: Friday is “Buy Nothing Day”; remember that needless consumption isn’t something to be envied or applauded but the exact opposite

Internal articles of interest: My Year as a Digital Vegan — Part IX — Hard Reckonings: The Nine Circles of E-Waste

=> My Year as a Digital Vegan — Part IX — Hard Reckonings: The Nine Circles of E-Waste

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●●●● [Old] Social media says not to Black Friday with “Buy Nothing Day”

In backlash to the chaos of ‘Black Friday’, consumers are taking to social media to fight back against the spending day. Using the hashtag #buynothingday, consumers are boycotting the post-Thanksgiving shopping day, where retailers infamously cut prices in order to free up space for holiday merchandise and rack up sales. The “Buy Nothing Day’ campaign is now in its 24th year.Buy Nothing Day encourages consumers to not spend anything for 24 hours, and instead, use the time and energy to spend time with friends and family. The pointed campaign now exists in 60 countries.

●●●● [Old] Your Non-Shopping Shopping List: Buy Nothing and Still Get What You Need on Black Friday

This is not to say that it’s never ok to want or need things – I myself am an object enthusiast. But it is an opportunity to re-evaluate how much and what we buy, and think about alternative ways of accessing them beyond buying new all the time.So here are 7 activities for you to try on Buy Nothing Day this year that can be carried over into your year-round relationship with things (jump to a section: declutter, swap, repair, make, borrow, bake, donate).

●●●● Kauf-nix-Tag 2022: An diesem Samstag kaufen wir nichts!

●●●● Kauf-nix-Tag 2022: Wann ist der Buy Nothing Day in diesem Jahr? | Südwest Presse Online

●●●● 26 november 2022: Niet-winkeldag Buy nothing day

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