looking at posts on facebook; many friends (real friends, fbfs) reporting their intention to buy nothing (although/even if the buy nothing day manifesto includes suggestions of / an imprecation about going off line altogether)
but here's a thing. one of my friends wrote about being showered and ready to go shopping this morning at 2 o'clock
so
how much is buy nothing day about consumption and green and good things and how much is it a class-based luxury to say to people around us, oh. well. i'm not buying you stuff. i'm saving the planet or contributing to x, y and z.
and/or
how much is it that some people can 'afford' to wait to buy things less dramatically on sale.
I'm not sure that I'm asking the questions that need to be asked, but seeing H's post about shopping makes me realize that people with many small kids and this and that in their lives really do want to make christmas, in part, about stuff - this doesn't make them evil or ignorant stuff-consumers, necessarily. it's what people with limited economic resources do to make the ability to provide stuff stretch a little further.
maybe we need to (re)examine that nature of gift as gift?
hmm
