Posts Tagged ‘Buy Nothing Day’
Alternative to Black Friday Encourages Families to Share Information
1:20 pm By Maegan La Mala · holidays · 4 Comments
26 Nov 2010I have never participated the ritual of Black Friday, standing on line in the middle of the night after Thanksgiving so I could snag a bargain at 4 am (now midnight in the mall close to Casa Mala). Before it was about anti-consumerism, it was about the fact that my mom, a single mother and a retail worker, had to be the one opening the store pre-dawn, and ringing people up. She did that today.
Do you have alternatives to Black Friday? There is Buy Nothing Day and now Storycorp wants to initiate another alternative.
Storycorps is encouraging switching Black Friday with National Day of Listening. This can mean sitting down with a family member or other loved one to find out about family and personal histories. You can even document it and make it part of legacy.
Black Friday or Buy Nothing Day?
8:26 am By Maegan La Mala · Activism|economy|Marketing|Money|Shopping · 4 Comments
28 Nov 2008
Growing up with a mom who worked in retail, the day after Thanksgiving meant watching my single mom wake up before the sun, before the crazy shoppers, to open up whatever store she worked in at an unholy hour. We never shopped for bargains because it was my mother’s job to make sure others could. Even today, as my mom approaches retirement age, she moved her tired body in the dark, towards the city of Manhattan to unlock doors and fill shopping bags. Black Friday gets no love from me.
My sister and I celebrated Buy Nothing Day before it was even officially a day.
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