Buy Nothing Day ideas?
image courtesy of www.adbusters.org
Erica and I were talking recently about Buy Nothing Day (In Canada & the US it’s on November 27th, 2009) - for the past few years we’ve thought about closing the store for it.
Buy Nothing Day is a day to pause and reflect on the need to make our consumer choices more sustainable: eco-friendly, organic, and socially responsible. On Buy Nothing Day we’d like to fill Plenty with activities that celebrate and promote these principles.
We are considering having the store open but locking the till - it’d be a day of tastings and events of some sort. We are prepared to forgo sales on November 27th but we’d rather not see the store sit idle and empty. That’s what this posting is about - we are looking for people who are interested in doing things in the store that day. Maybe a poetry reading, a recital, exchanges of recipes or seeds, a knit-in, a dominoes tournament, collecting items for the food bank, teaching people to make origami creatures, displaying art…
Is there something you’d like to do at Plenty on Buy Nothing Day?
great idea trevor
i would love to be a part of this
do a sewing circle or teach origami
Comment by gillian — October 22, 2009 @ 11:13 pm
Brilliant! What about a day of creating for others - knitting/sewing blankets as the days grow colder, or collecting/making fresh food for those at the shelters? Bringing PLENTY outside the experience of consuming and into the experience of giving.
Comment by Shannon — October 27, 2009 @ 12:06 am
I love your idea of staying open and creating community that day - with a closed til! I immediately started generating ideas of what I could offer to this celebration, and then checked the calendar at my “day-job” to see a staff mtg scheduled; darn. Another time… I will make a point of stopping in next time I find time to wander Fort St - I actually haven’t been in before and just today received your rack card in the mail at said day-job office - looks great! Love what you’re up to…
Trinity
Comment by Trinity of Divinely Inspired Designs — November 6, 2009 @ 3:06 am