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When Black Friday Comes

Today is Black Friday.

But for me, today is No-consumption Day — the day I refuse to spend money.

My only nod to this orgy of consumption is that I’ll check CNN this morning to see how many people have been shot or trampled to death.

UPDATE: Evolution in reverse…

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Comments 9

  1. Steve A wrote:

    I went to the other extreme today, for the first time. Call it my nod to the Democrat in us all…

    Posted 27 Nov 2009 at 9:56 am
  2. Andy Cline wrote:

    Steve… You trampled someone? ;-)

    Posted 27 Nov 2009 at 10:28 am
  3. Nate Bassett wrote:

    I like this idea!

    Posted 27 Nov 2009 at 10:39 am
  4. Steve A wrote:

    No, I missed out instead. I haven’t got the full drill down yet. I DID notice, however, that I could have obtained a better parking spot with my bike, even if it isn’t a Redline…
    :-)

    Posted 27 Nov 2009 at 10:53 am
  5. Keri wrote:

    I normally avoid the consumeristic nonsense of this season, and especially this day. But procrastination bit me today. I needed to buy an external hard drive, shoulda done it weeks ago. Yesterday, I spent the day clipping and cataloging video from last week’s work. Sure enough, I ran out of hard drive space.

    So today I had a choice: go to the store and be able to get my work done, or spend the day backing stuff up on DVDs and get no work done.

    I very much enjoyed parking my bike easily while the hoards drove endlessly around the lot and then walked from the far reaches of it. I was probably in and out before they got to the front door.

    Posted 27 Nov 2009 at 11:21 am
  6. Lovely Bicycle! wrote:

    I am not buying anything today either, except for my usual cups of coffee. (Sorry, but I’m an addict!) You might find this essay from my “LBS” interesting, especially considering that they are themselves a business.

    Posted 27 Nov 2009 at 3:12 pm
  7. Tracy Wilkins wrote:

    I’m not usually one to judge others, but that is madness….glad I avoided it!

    Posted 28 Nov 2009 at 7:42 pm
  8. Alexander wrote:

    Going a day without spending money is impossible in our society. A pure and total fiction.

    Posted 28 Nov 2009 at 11:33 pm
  9. Andy Cline wrote:

    Alex… Well, yes. Perhaps a better way to put it is: “A day without spending money outside what’s already been automatically set up or otherwise accounted for as a routine of owning property, etc.” But that just doesn’t trip off the tongue :-)

    Posted 29 Nov 2009 at 1:59 pm