BND.

Tomorrow is “Buy Nothing Day” – so we did our grocery shopping this morning. I can’t bear the idea of the store on a Saturday – all those shopping carts filled with screaming kids being pushed by grouchy mothers. At least on Fridays when we go the store is mostly filled with older people – they walk slowly, and they take forever to pay, but they’re generally not rude or shoving each other around. And I can’t remember the last time a senior citizen started shrieking with hysteria over not being allowed to buy cookies. Heh.

It’s interesting – I don’t imagine that BND really makes a big economical impact. Most people aren’t aware of it, or don’t bother to follow it (because it doesn’t make a big impact) but I like the idea of impressing on people that it is possible to go for more than a few hours without purchasing something at this time of year. People are obsessed with gift-buying and shopping for crap no one wants, and even for someone like me who isn’t religious, it’s tempting to shriek, “People, the point of the season isn’t BUYING STUFF!” It amuses me to watch people scowl and snarl their way through a mall in order to purchase “holiday cheer”, stomping and being miserable and bitching at the cashiers. Wooo, feel the holiday looooove..

At any rate, tomorrow I won’t be buying anything at all – not because I think anyone will notice, but because it’s a good reminder for the rest of the year. A cleansing, if you will.