Archive for the 'Holidays' Category
Buy Nothing Day
22Nov07
Tomorrow, the day after Thanksgiving, is the biggest shopping day of the year in America known as Black Friday. The name comes from the heavy traffic on that day, although most modern uses of the term refer to it as the beginning of the period in which retailers are in the black at the bank.
As [...]
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Tags: anti commericalism, anti consumerism, black friday, Environment, shopping
Thanks
20Nov07
Thanksgiving isn’t really my holiday - after all I am not American, but I do live here and relish the two days off work as well as the sentiment of the holiday. It has always struck me as a nice holiday - about giving thanks for the good things in your life and not about [...]
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Tags: charity work, Environment, grateful, hope, human rights, making a difference, protecting animals, recycling, thanks