Comments on: Buy Nothing Day. Ish.

By: Boy in the bands » Blog Archive » Christmas, Puritans, and Feasting

Boy in the bands » Blog Archive » Christmas, Puritans, and Feasting — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 05:52:45 +0000

[…] can hardly care what Puritans then or now might think. So I was a little taken back when Philo commented on the Buy Nothing Day post, the day […]

By: Kim

Kim — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 06:38:53 +0000

We tend to “go away” at Christmas. Last year I had a cold and we went to Birch Bay, Washington, and sat around and ate and watched movies on tv and sniffled. This year we may go to LA to fix a friend’s computer. I buy little gifts for my co-workers. My spouse and I buy each other new nightgowns every year. (long flannel nightgowns, and sometimes slippers.) That’s it. We make fancy food on Christmas — especially breakfast.
My sister and I have our annual fight. Last year I couldn’t face it, so we had it in January.

By: h sofia

h sofia — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 21:30:55 +0000

the only person in my family who celebrates christmas is my grandmother.

i will probably give kwanzaa gifts to my nephews and nieces (four in total), but these will be books.

and that’s that!

By: Philocrites

Philocrites — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 18:07:23 +0000

Mrs P and I are going to try celebrating Advent during Advent, and then celebrating Christmas starting on Christmas Eve. (This will probably require finding some Advent-like tree decorations.) This year we’ll also pick at least one charity to give to. I’ve never signed on to the anti-consumer Christmas thing, though, and frankly love to spoil my nephews and nieces. Avoiding debt is important, but the puritanism of the “buy nothing” movement makes no sense to me.

By: Bill Baar

Bill Baar — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 18:38:09 +0000

Knowing how to consume (and produce) are topics very worthy of preachers and not often done well in my experience.

By: Dan Harper

Dan Harper — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 16:16:53 +0000

We’ve made the pledge for the past few years that we would give donations in honor of family members in lieu of buying gifts. This year, we’re planning to also buy token gifts that are made by locally-owned businesses. And OK, maybe this sounds very politically correct, but there are no children in our immediate families and everyone is more or less middle class and doesn’t need anything. But it’s the reduced stress level in our lives from not having to shop for meaningless gifts that’s the real selfish payoff for us — Christmas has become an enjoyable holiday again.

(Just for the record, Scott, I did do some shopping on BND. I bought a bar of soap at a locally-owned and operated health food store (almost as leftie as your recycled-fiber toilet paper), and we also rented DVDs of season two of Futurama at Blockbuster.)

By: Derek

Derek — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 15:54:26 +0000

-I’m pledging to spend no more than $100 on gifts this Christmas. Some will call it cheap, but I’m seeking very meaningfull gifts instead of expensive things.