Buy Nothing Day, 2008
This video on YouTube, called “The Good Consumer”, which I found on AdBusters was quite good… and quite disturbing.
While Buy Nothing Day has come and gone, we can still buy nothing. Buy Nothing Day is one of those phenomena where people profess a belief, and demonstrate it powerfully, on one occasion, then go back to their old ways almost immediately afterwards. Why not skip societally-programmed calendar-driven gift-giving, and just reform yourself to be a more generous person all year long?
If you still think a consumption-driven holiday is a good idea, just remember there are people, who, as a result of their enthusiasm for the high-holy consumer holiday, Christmas, won’t see it.