Monday, December 1, 2025

December 1 - Buy Nothing Rebellion

December 1, 2025

Day 1,522 of the Adventure


The Buy Nothing Rebellion video link
In the face of continually rising prices, accompanying a sense of hopelessness over it, the "Buy Nothing Day" which kicked of a few years ago is blossoming into a "Buy Nothing Rebellion". Originally it was a statement of protest against Black Friday shopping mania. It encouraged people on Black Friday to just not buy anything. The intent seemed to be that of lowering the temperature and hype surrounding the day after Thanksgiving shopping frenzy. 

I actually found myself shopping on Black Friday several years ago. I had not thought about it ahead of time and certainly did not plan to be caught in the middle of it. From that day on, I had a bad taste in my mouth over Black Friday. Not one to be easily dragged into shopping in the first place, this experience left a life-long impact on my opinion of hyper-Christmas gift shopping. It wasn't a good one either. 

Recently, with the economy doing its best to ravish our personal finances, the resurgence of the "Buy Nothing Day" has is turning into a "Buy Nothing Rebellion" movement. One where the fed-up masses are beginning to take a new look at their spending addiction. Not only has Black Friday become a target, spending in general has become the foe. Obviously not the spending required for essentials. This is more of a rebellion against the continual onslaught of just "Stuff". Cheap and useless stuff. Stuff that really does not improve the quality of life but only adds a dopamine kick to our system. Dopamine, that chemical messenger that acts on our brains to produce a feeling of happiness after doing something enjoyable that causes us to want to do it again and again. I guess spending money we don't have on things we don't need fits this description. Personally, I'd rather save my dopamine high for something like fishing, but that's just me!

The rise of the "Buy Nothing Rebellion" has its place in our lives at this time...... I believe. If for no other reason than to reset our minds and attitudes to the current condition of our world. We have too much to live for and accomplish to be allowing ourselves to be dragged into the position of keeping big companies afloat by spending ourselves into oblivion on things we don't really need. I discussed this subject on a recent video. If you'd like to watch it, simply Click Here!

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