Buy Nothing Day demonstration in San Francisco, November 2000
Type
Cultural
Significance
Protest against consumerism
Date
Day after U.S. Thanksgiving
2023 date
November 24 (2023-11-24)
2024 date
November 29 (2024-11-29)
2025 date
November 28 (2025-11-28)
2026 date
November 27 (2026-11-27)
Frequency
Annual
First time
September 1992; 31 years ago (September 1992)
Related to
Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Green Monday, Small Business Saturday, Giving Tuesday, Thanksgiving
Part of a series on
Anti-consumerism
Theories and ideas
Asceticism
Affluenza
Alternative culture
Anti-capitalism
Autonomous building
Billboard hacking
Buyer's remorse
Bioeconomics
Buddhist economics
Buy Nothing Day
Collaborative consumption
Collapsology
Commodification
Commodity fetishism
Commune
Compulsive buying disorder
Conspicuous consumption
Consumer capitalism
Consumerism
Conviviality
Criticism of advertising
Culture jamming
Do it yourself
Downshifting
Durable good
Earth Overshoot Day
Ecological economics
Ecovillage
Ethical consumerism
Feminist political ecology
Food loss and waste
Freeganism
Gift economy
Green consumption
Hyperconsumerism
Laconophilia
Local food
Microgeneration
Non-possession
Overconsumption
Planned obsolescence
Right to repair
Political ecology
Post-consumerism
Simple living
Slow Food
Steady-state economy
Subvertising
Sustainable consumer behaviour
Sustainable consumption
Notable works
Walden
The Theory of the Leisure Class
Brave New World
The Affluent Society
One-Dimensional Man
The Society of the Spectacle (book, film)
The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures [fr]
Steal This Book
Small Is Beautiful
To Have or to Be?
Future Primitive and Other Essays
Fight Club (novel, film)
Escape from Affluenza
No Logo
Profit over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order
The Cultural Creatives
Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic
Evasion
The Corporation
Surplus: Terrorized into Being Consumers
So, What's Your Price?
What Would Jesus Buy?
Organizations and groups
Adbusters
Crass
CrimethInc.
Deep Green Resistance
Democracy Now!
Earth Liberation Front
Fifth Estate
Freecycle
Green Anarchy
Institute for Social Ecology
Monthly Review
Rage Against the Machine
Reverend Billy
The Venus Project
The Yes Men
350.org
People
Mauro Bonaiuti
Noam Chomsky
Erich Fromm
Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen
Edward Goldsmith
Paul Goodman
André Gorz
Ivan Illich
Serge Latouche
Donella Meadows
Pierre Rabhi
John Ruskin
E. F. Schumacher
Bernard Stiegler
Henry David Thoreau
Related social movements
Alter-globalization
Amateurism
Anarcho-communism
Anarcho-primitivism
Anarcho-punk
Anti-capitalism
Anti-corporate activism
Anti-globalization movement
Communism
Diggers (theater)
Ecofeminism
Eco-socialism
Environmentalism
Food Not Bombs
Fossil fuel phase-out
Green anarchism
Green left
Green politics
Hippie
Libertarian socialism
Neo-Luddism
New Left
Occupy Wall Street
Postmodernism
Punk
Situationists
Slow movement
Social anarchism
Social ecology
See also
Advanced capitalism
Advertising
Barter
Consumer behaviour
Consumption (economics)
Consumption (sociology)
Cooperative
Counterculture
Disneyfication
Ecological economics
Economic materialism
Economic problems
Frugality
Green economy
Gross National Happiness
Heterodox economics
HospEx
Illth
Influence of mass media
Informal sector
Intentional community
Left-wing politics
McDonaldization
Mutual aid
Natural resource economics
Non-monetary economy
Permaculture
Post-materialism
Productivism
Shopping
Subsistence economy
Sustainability
Sweatshops
Veblen good
Workaholic
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Buy Nothing Day is a day of protest against consumerism. In North America, the United Kingdom, Finland and Sweden, Buy Nothing Day is held the day after U.S. Thanksgiving, concurrent with Black Friday; elsewhere, it is held the following day, which is the last Saturday in November.[1][2]
Created by artist Ted Dave and promoted by magazine and nonprofit Adbusters, Buy Nothing Day encourages people not to shop for one day. Participants may participate in a variety of anti-consumerist and philanthropic activities, such as donating winter coats or marching through stores. Some activists have also extended Buy Nothing Day to cover the entire Christmas shopping season. As of 2001, Buy Nothing Day was observed in over 35 countries. In the late 1990s, Adbusters created a TV commercial to promote Buy Nothing Day in the US, but most television stations refused to air it. Some commentators, particularly business groups, have criticized the event, claiming that it is economically destructive.
^"Campbell, Duncan (November 24, 2000). "Internet spreads word as networks shun adverts for Buy Nothing Day". The Guardian.
^"Buy Nothing Day Archived November 21, 2018, at the Wayback Machine"Adbusters.org
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