Okay, now we liberals love our causes and we love to celebrate them. We rail against excessive consumerism and corporate domination of our lives and like to take any opportunity to strike blows against them. Sometimes, however, things don't work out very well.Friday is one of our favorite days of the Year, Buy Nothing Day. While the mad shoppers are out trampling each other for a few bucks off a Bluray player, we sit smugly at home saving our cash and acting all superior.
But wait! We also love favoring local businesses over big impersonal corporate chain stores. We go to the local coffee shop and spurn Starbucks and Petes, the farmer's market and organic food coop instead of Krogers. So imagine my dismay when I found out that Friday is Buy Local Day in Tucson.
So I a going to do the only logical thing...visit my favorite local stores but buy nothing.
Buying nothing -- by definition -- is conservative. Buying lots of stuff would be liberal.
ReplyDeleteYou callin' me conservative? Dem's fighting words!
ReplyDeleteA few years back, I just got fed up with the early shopping season and the buy, buy, buy mentality. Things never make someone happy long term. All the ads are laying around the house, but I haven't even picked them up. No temptation.
ReplyDeleteSo I a going to do the only logical thing...visit my favorite local stores but buy nothing
ReplyDeleteBobster...you bored?
What are the implications if you buy imported goods locally?
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