http://www.parentsforethicalmarketing.org/blog/2007/11/23/buy-nothing-today/ Blog of Parents for Ethical Marketing Tue, 6 Jan 2009 09:10:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 http://www.parentsforethicalmarketing.org/blog/2007/11/23/buy-nothing-today/#comment-103 Karen Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:34:16 +0000 http://www.parentsforethicalmarketing.org/blog/2007/11/23/buy-nothing-today/#comment-103 OK, Anne, you've got to be satirizing here! Right? You're doing a great job! I was taken in for several days. Thanks for expanding my understanding of what comedy can be. OK, Anne, you’ve got to be satirizing here! Right? You’re doing a great job! I was taken in for several days. Thanks for expanding my understanding of what comedy can be.

]]> http://www.parentsforethicalmarketing.org/blog/2007/11/23/buy-nothing-today/#comment-29 Anne Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:46:09 +0000 http://www.parentsforethicalmarketing.org/blog/2007/11/23/buy-nothing-today/#comment-29 For the first time in about 20 years, I got up at 4 AM on Black Friday, made a 30 mile trek to locate one item, that I truly felt I should have! No, I didn't really have to have it at 4 AM in the morning, but I am at the age that I felt it necessary to see if I could still do it! I loved every moment of it. The economy looked overwhelmingly bright that morning, the excitement of people out for the challenge was contagious and actually, observing the commaroderie, cheer and optimism was in the air. I purchased the item that I went for, very handily, following a gentlemen with whom I had been conversing for an hour in line. I left town by 8 AM, with a car full of necessities, feeling that Black Friday was an extremely succesful marketing attempt at boosting the economy for one day! Bravo! For the first time in about 20 years, I got up at 4 AM on Black Friday, made a 30 mile trek to locate one item, that I truly felt I should have! No, I didn’t really have to have it at 4 AM in the morning, but I am at the age that I felt it necessary to see if I could still do it! I loved every moment of it. The economy looked overwhelmingly bright that morning, the excitement of people out for the challenge was contagious and actually, observing the commaroderie, cheer and optimism was in the air. I purchased the item that I went for, very handily, following a gentlemen with whom I had been conversing for an hour in line. I left town by 8 AM, with a car full of necessities, feeling that Black Friday was an extremely succesful marketing attempt at boosting the economy for one day! Bravo!

]]> http://www.parentsforethicalmarketing.org/blog/2007/11/23/buy-nothing-today/#comment-26 StealthBadger Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:19:31 +0000 http://www.parentsforethicalmarketing.org/blog/2007/11/23/buy-nothing-today/#comment-26 For the record: on Black Friday I slept, wrote, and slept some more. ^.^ For the record: on Black Friday I slept, wrote, and slept some more. ^.^

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