Comments on: reservations about buy nothing day

By: Seattle’s Pastor Cho on Buy Nothing Day « pdxWoman

Seattle’s Pastor Cho on Buy Nothing Day « pdxWoman — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:24:11 +0000

[...] Pastor Cho blogged his reservations about Buy Nothing Day. In his post, Pastor Cho paraphrases an African-American friend of his as saying: Buy Nothing Day [...]

By: The Consumptive Church: Appeasing The White Man’s Guilt | iamjoshbrown.com

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:06:04 +0000

[...] I was reading Eugene Cho’s thoughts the other day on Buy Nothing Day and he makes some good points. His basic premise was that it’s easy for guys like me (white, affluent, etc) to support Buy Nothing Day once a year. I can afford to be “holier-than-thou” on the day after Christmas, because my lifestyle affords me the opportunities the rest of the year to buy what I want to when I want to. Whereas, for a lot of people, standing outside in freezing temperatures on the day after Christmas for electronics and children’s toys is more of a necessity. [...]

By: To buy or not to buy « A learner’s notebook

To buy or not to buy « A learner’s notebook — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 23:34:53 +0000

[...] phenomenon and the opposing Buy Nothing Day which was first started by a Vancouver artist. Click here to see his post. His conversation with his African American friend is a good reminder to me: there [...]

By: James

James — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 18:33:12 +0000

Buy less.
Be content with what you have and enjoy what you have.
Be generous and give away more than you already have.
Worry about your motivation and self righteousness at a later time.
Just be generous.

By: ChrisB

ChrisB — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 17:45:13 +0000

So change buy nothing day to buy something and give it away day.

By: video skins

video skins — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:48:23 +0000

Yep,

if everyone does that. it will go a long way and

make a big difference too.

How about consume something digital, that doesn’t add pollution to the earth.

But it does consume electricity still.

oh my, I do my bit by watching less online videos…