Today is International Buy Nothing Day, an informal day of protest against consumerism.
"Buy Nothing Day is more poignant this year than ever before… Spend, spend, spend!! That seems to be the British government’s rather optimistic plan for yanking the rudder on the country’s economic supertanker before it glides inexorably into the jagged rocks of financial ruin."
Here’s ten things to do instead of shopping.
You may also like … to join the Christmas Resistance Movement.
We are banning family presents this year, saving ourselves time, money and the poignant waste of an unwanted gift. I know several versions of this including a taxi driver whose family are only buying for the under 20s and another family doing Secret Santa (one gift each). Check out the Cube this Wednesday 10 December for anti-consumerist carols by the Feral choir….This is looking like one of my best Christmases ever! Love Scrooge.