Black Friday??? No Thanks!
For the life of me, I will never understand people who are actually willing to wait in line, before the crack of dawn, outside of a big box store, to battle over a big deal. I fully support the Target employees that are protesting a 12am opening on Thanksgiving night, and I appreciate countries that enforce a no shopping day once a week, and of course, on holidays: I lived in Italy for several years, and just about everything is closed on Sundays in Italy - an Italian store wouldn’t dream of staying open on a religious or national holiday (pharmacies work “a turno”, so that one will be open in every neighborhood). I also appreciated the same when I spent a summer in Israel, where most everything closed at sundown on Friday evening for Shabbat. But I also know our economy is already in the toilet, so it’s just too much to ask stores to close at least one day a week. Instead – Can we just give the holiday spending mania a rest, my dear fellow Americans?
That’s why the Friday after Thanksgiving, my family and I will be celebrating…Buy Nothing Day. Adbusters, the Vancouver based anti-consumerist magazine, offers some interesting (and many over the top) ideas for celebrating Buy Nothing Day. In our family, we’ll be celebrating “Black Friday” by eating Thanksgiving leftovers and being lazy all day, in our pajamas.
Will you be joining the Black Friday shopping mayhem? What are your plans for the day after Thanksgiving?
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I will venture out later in the afternoon Friday to see if Walmart still has jeans and shirts. I won’t bother with the crazy crowds who acted like they were starving lions over $4 PJs last year. But my kids could use some new jeans so we’ll casually stroll over later in the day as they did have them last year when I went back after the madness.
We shopped at locally owned businesses the week after. They are the businesses that actually help our economy out by shopping there and I know they appreciate the business. Hope you had a great day!