Black Friday is such an interesting day of the year. It’s become almost a patriotic sort of holiday in the middle of this Great Recession we have placed ourselves in. “Buy to help the economy!” However, there seems to be more and more of a growing sense that we shouldn’t succumb to the materialistic endeavor of Black Friday and instead boycott the day altogether… Black Friday has become Buy Nothing Day.
However, what if that’s not really the answer? For many who participate in Buy Nothing Day, the purchases that would be made on Black Friday simply get strung out over the course of the month leading up to Christmas which makes Buy Nothing Day a purely symbolic act with no real teeth at all.
What if we began to think about Black Friday in a different way… what if we began to look at how we spend our money–where we spend our money? What if we began to educate ourselves on our spending habits…
(ht: Adam Lehman
Often times our buying power, our wealth as a nation is seen by many as a very bad thing… I believe that’s because of how we use our buying power. But what if we began to see our buying power as a positive thing… what if we began utilizing our financial resources and buying power in positive ways by educating ourselves on what it is that we are buying and where it is that we are buying from? I think we would see radical changes take place in business practices all over the globe, and through our buying choices be a voice for the voiceless.
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- Let’s move beyond Good Friday
- friday playlist (on sunday)
- racist comedy.
- got jesus?
- change is in the air.
boycott Starbucks…as a start. Give that money to the poor. Make coffee at home. It has to start somewhere.