Buy Nothing Day

Although Black Friday was never an exercise in spiritual enlightenment, the underfoot death of a Long Island Wal Mart employee should have been enough to give even rank materialists pause. And if that wasn't enough, perhaps the Toys_R_Us gun battle opened some closed eyes.

Perhaps wide enough to consider celebrating Buy Nothing Day, as the charming video below recommends:

Widespread observance of Buy Nothing Day would have produced no such tragedies, although it would have required merchants to adjust their annual business plans. There might be little hope for businesses that did not make a year in the black more of a year-round reality. Nor is there any place for an excessive prosperity gospel in the approach recommended by proponents of Buy Nothing day, as Frink explains->.