BUY NOTHING DAY - Nov 28

[aiwetir]

i have to buy scratch

 

[luvmychicknkids]

I HAVE to buy some groceries tomorrow (and my children keep reminding me in a VERY whiny tone that they are OUT of toilet tissue.....OOPS!!!!). I DREAD it! The only "real" grocery store here is WalMart Super Center.

I am so tempted to just share my last roll of tissue with the kids and eat whatever we can scrape together!

As for rushing out early AM for the special sales.....you could not pay me to do that! My brother and his wife are not even going to bed tonight. They know of one place that starts at Midnight so they are starting there. They said one town close to them has already prepared with extra police patrols, etc. Aparently last year some people were just parking their cars in the middle of the road, blocking traffic and running in the stores to beat cars waiting in line to get in the parking lots!!! OMG Better them than me!!!!

 

[smom1976]

I actually was going to start a post about "who else doesnt GET to go because of financial reasons"

I LOVE IT>>> I love the rush I love the crowds.. I love the deals.. I get 90 % of my shopping done in one day... this will be the first year in 10 years that I am not going..

We are just flat broke...

The local news day before yesterday showed that about 50% of people here in pensacola are not going to go out this year that have in the past. So I am not alone.

 

[Chicken Salad]

Thanks for posting this. I've been in on Buy Nothing Day for years now - but sometimes even when you are committed to an idea...you get the feeling that you're out there alone flipping in the breeze sometimes.

I used to $elebrate Christmas but now I just celebrate it. I've actually done a lot of research concerning the tradition of Christmas through the ages. It was actually a fairly minor holiday on the Roman Catholic calendar which observance was forbidden in the colonies for a long time. Over the years I've progressively given thought to the things I did for The Holiday and re-made it to mean something to me. Deciding to not participate in the end-of-year feeding frenzy is only one part of that.

I'm not a Grinch. I'm the type of person who has a HUGE problem with corporate (and political) manipulation. It's certainly no secret (and no wonder) than many, many corporations run in the red until this time of year, for instance. I could go on and on - but I won't. Read books like Christmas Unwrapped and The Battle for Christmas.

 

[purplebaby]

Quote:
u are definatly not alone...
i cant afford it this yr, and i dont mean just "black friday" (not a fan, too many people)

 

[geareduplyn]

Take a look at how much stuff that is purchased today is made in a foreign country, China being the predominate one. Until the USA starts producing products again we will continue to decline. I am going to town though. The TSC has wood pellet bedding on sale as well as Alfalfa Cubes. I plan on getting about 20 bags of each.

 

[spatcher]

Ahhhhhh a fresh tree! Hug it first, then "get er done"!

 

[Birch Run Farm]

No shopping today for me either. I have never participated in this 'tradition'. It is not representative of what the holidays mean to me. That said, I am digging firewood out of the snow today to keep warm all winter.

My friends and family will be getting Made in the USA gifts from me. Homemade jelly, maple syrup, crafts, colorful eggs, etc all made here by me or my 'employees'.

 

[DuckLady]

Last year I went to a fabric store sale and stood in line from 4 am to 6 am for 99 cent a yard flannel. I bought over 200 yards. This year the sale price is $1.49 a yard, so I will save my aggravation waiting in line and pay 50 cents more a yard in a couple weeks.
I will be buying online today, though.

 

[purplebaby]

this is so unbelievable and i am glad i stayed home!!!!!! (for what ever reason!) i am horrified!

Worker dies at Long Island Wal-Mart after being trampled in Black Friday stampede

BY JOE GOULD
DAILY NEWS WRITER

Updated Friday, November 28th 2008, 10:19 AM
A Wal-Mart store was the scene of chaos this morning. Anderson/News


A worker died after being trampled and a woman miscarried when hundreds of shoppers smashed through the doors of a Long Island Wal-Mart Friday morning, witnesses said.

The unidentified worker, employed as an overnight stock clerk, tried to hold back the unruly crowds just after the Valley Stream store opened at 5 a.m.

Witnesses said the surging throngs of shoppers knocked the man down. He fell and was stepped on. As he gasped for air, shoppers ran over and around him.

"He was bum-rushed by 200 people," said Jimmy Overby, 43, a co-worker. "They took the doors off the hinges. He was trampled and killed in front of me. They took me down too...I literally had to fight people off my back."

Nassau County Police are still investigating and would not confirm the witness accounts. The Medical Examiner will determine the cause of death. Police did say there were several injuries but weren't more specific.

Jessica Keyes was among the shoppers. She told the Daily News she saw a woman knocked down just a few feet from the dying worker.

"When the paramedics came, she said 'I'm pregnant,'" Keyes said.

Paramedics treated the woman inside the store and then, according to Keys, told the woman:

"There's nothing we can do. The baby is gone."

Before police shut down the store, eager shoppers streamed past emergency crews as they worked furiously to save the store clerk's life.

"They were working on him, but you could see he was dead, said Halcyon Alexander, 29. "People were still coming through."

Only a few stopped.

"They're savages," said shopper Kimberly Cribbs, 27. "It's sad. It's terrible."

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local...worker_dies_at_long_island_walmart_after.html