# Thoughts on Buy Nothing Day

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thoughts-on-buy-nothing-day/272795>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 3, 2004, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thoughts-on-buy-nothing-day/272795 "2004-11-03T17:41:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![PookahMacPhellimey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pookahmacphellimey/32/3175_2.png) [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2004, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thoughts-on-buy-nothing-day/272795/21 "2004-11-04T16:32:58Z")

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I’m a extremely leftwing in a lot of ways, but I don’t think shopping is what is ruining the world. I want to buy stuff, dammit! Plastic silly junk stuff too. Woo hoo!

Things like masochistic no shopping days invented by the organic lentle eating classes to make themselves feel better are hardly going to change to world, are they?

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**Author:** ![FlyingDragonFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c89c15/32.png) [@FlyingDragonFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingDragonFan)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2004, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thoughts-on-buy-nothing-day/272795/22 "2004-11-04T17:51:17Z")

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Just so y’all it know, [it ain’t.](http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/shopping.asp)

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**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2004, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thoughts-on-buy-nothing-day/272795/23 "2004-11-04T20:09:40Z")

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I do most of my holiday gift-shopping online, so staying home on Black Friday is nothing new for me. In fact, this year, I’m doing the engineering for a basketball tournament, so I’ll have lots of time to get my shopping done.

Robin

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**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2004, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thoughts-on-buy-nothing-day/272795/24 "2004-11-04T21:17:29Z")

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> [@Abbie Carmichael](#):
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> I stay home because I can’t stand the crowds. I do my Christmas shopping in the wee hours of the morning.

I usually do my shopping in June.

I’ve actually never heard of “Buy Nothing Day”, and won’t let it affect my normal routines. If I need milk, I need milk.

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