In a world wide effort to bring attention to the scourge of a must have now society, there is now “Buy Nothing Day”

It is the one day that purchasing anything should be avoided.

The idea of “Buy Nothing Day” started in 1992 in Vancouver Canada. Personally I like the idea. 

Stay in bed, go nowhere, do nothing, see no-one, watch TV, watch a video, play on your PC, but don’t spend any money. It is only for twenty four hours.

Don’t connect to the Internet, resist the temptation to do online shopping, buy food that you need the day before, plan for the event, don’t be shy, you can do it.

Get the urge to shop out of your system, see if you can survive on what is in your house.

This is all fine and well if you are single or it’s only you and your spouse, but what if you have a child that is where the challenge comes in. If no planning is involved, it might be twenty four hours of hell.

If you mange, you would be one of many individuals in sixty five countries that participate in “Buy Nothing Day”

So what will your plastic be doing, will it be sleeping safely in your wallet, of will it be out there without its clothes on being flashed?   What are you doing on the twenty eighth of November?

This article relates to one published on IOL.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?newslett=1&click_id=79&art_id=iol1259052772198S152&set_id=1