Buy Nothing Day

I feel enormously hypocritical in posting this. I'm currently accompanying my in-laws on a Caribbean cruise (thus the light blogging for the next few days), so I'm posting from the high seas (without a spell checker, so please, indulge my typos). I can hardly take the high moral ground and tell everyone to participate in Buy Nothing Day, and yet, here I am. I support Adbusters in general and this program in principle. Every year on the day after Thanksgiving--"Black Friday," as it's come to be known in the media, even though it's not the busiest shopping day of the year--Adbusters encourages people to protest by withdrawing from the consumer world for twenty-four hours. Although I'm conspicuously not withdrawing this year, I still think it's a good idea, so I'm providing the link. Do with it what you will.