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I bought breakfast. Oops.

I think the idea is skipping the mass orgy of consumerism related to holiday shopping, so I had no problem buying normal things I had been planning to get on my next day off...groceries (quiet at the store...everyone else must have been at the mall) and a book my local bookshop ordered for me.

Funny, but Friday was the first time I heard about the NO SHOPPING thing. I like it.

I also bought breakfast, but then I spent an hour or so finding canned goods in my kitchen for the local food pantry and taking two bags over to Housing Works. I like the idea of Buy Nothing Day, but unless you replace shopping with a better activity -- volunteering, hanging out with friends, whatever -- and cut back on the number and type of gifts you're giving to people, you're just putting off the consumer orgy until Saturday.

I have a big job interview tomorrow and I really needed a suit--I definitely lose.

I actually didn't buy a thing today and had no idea it was buy nothing day!!

My pug and I stayed on the sofa and just napped all day.
BOY did that feel good!

I ended up working. I think in about another week, I'll start stressing about what to give to my new niece and nephew.

For more support resisting the consumer orgy of December,
there's a very funny movie
"What Would Jesus Buy?"
http://www.wwjbmovie.com/