Buy Nothing Day

This year's annual Buy Nothing Day is Friday Nov 24, 2006. Or Saturday November 25, 2006, depending on who you believe. The Friday after Thanksgiving is otherwise known as "Black Friday", the day when hoards of shoppers hit the stores to start the Christmas buying season. It is supposed to be the biggest shopping day of the year. Hence the term "Black Friday", the day when most retailers get out of the red and into the black, finacially.

Buy Nothing Day is a consumer boycott of all stores on the Friday after Thanksgving that shows support for turning away from the culture of mass consumption and wastefulness. My store (not named here) will be closed on Friday Nov 24, 2006 in solidarity with Buy Nothing Day. And so I can go out of town for Thanksgivng.

Buy Nothing Day is also recognized on Saturday, Nov 25, 2006 in Europe. They don't have Thanksgiving over there, so they have Buy Nothing Day on the last Saturday of November, although it is claimed that Buy Nothing Day in the US/Canada is on Nov 24 this year,
according to http://www.buynothingday.co.uk/


Adbusters
http://www.adbusters.org/metas/eco/bnd/
says that Nov 25 is Buy Nothing Day every year. Wikipedia says that it is the day after Thanksgiving every year. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buy_Nothing_Day

http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/educational/teaching_backgrounders/advertising_marketing/buy_nothing_day.cfm
says it's the day after Thanksgiving every year.