So, what are you buying on Buy Nothing Day?

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I'm thinking about a printer/scanner, as well as picking up the cds I had the shop special order, as everything's 10% off today.

― naus (naus), Friday, 24 November 2006 12:28 (eighteen years ago) link

My lunch, for a start.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 24 November 2006 12:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Is today Buy Nothing Day? Oh, honestly, why did they have it on Payday? I've already bought boots and a handbag. But I didn't buy anything all week!

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 24 November 2006 12:31 (eighteen years ago) link

I guess it's the 24th in North America, and the 25th in the UK.

― naus (naus), Friday, 24 November 2006 12:59 (eighteen years ago) link

It's not a very sexy concept.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 24 November 2006 13:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Not this Saturday! There's a continental market in Oxford this Saturday, I was gonna` buy loads of chorizo and random French cheese! Boo!

― Johnney B, Friday, 24 November 2006 13:31 (eighteen years ago) link

If I abstained from shopping on Saturdays, I would starve the next week.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 24 November 2006 13:36 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm not gonna buy adbusters, that's for sure

― lf (lfam), Friday, 24 November 2006 13:38 (eighteen years ago) link

your mum

― ken c, Friday, 24 November 2006 14:34 (eighteen years ago) link

i havne't bought anything in like 2 months

― emily robinson (roxymuzak), Friday, 24 November 2006 16:57 (eighteen years ago) link

i will buy beer. and maybe some fabric to make a skirt. (not in that order)

― molly (molly d), Friday, 24 November 2006 17:02 (eighteen years ago) link

I sandwich, a packet of tea and a bus ticket so far.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 24 November 2006 17:33 (eighteen years ago) link

I, sandwich

― stet (stet), Friday, 24 November 2006 17:35 (eighteen years ago) link

iSandwich

― ken c, Friday, 24 November 2006 17:37 (eighteen years ago) link

I am also tempted by this, which is worth £2,065!

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 24 November 2006 17:39 (eighteen years ago) link

spam!

― stet (stet), Friday, 24 November 2006 17:42 (eighteen years ago) link

Blah blah blah. iBlah.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 24 November 2006 17:42 (eighteen years ago) link

Good idea #1 (though this might not work)

Can we make a syndicate for it and have a couple of nights each if we get it?

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Friday, 24 November 2006 18:07 (eighteen years ago) link

anyway, yes, Buy Nothing day. I just got paid, so that's kind of knacked. So far today:

£20 petrol
£15 top-up for mobile phone
£1.99 chicken pasta thing for lunch
£11.95 box of wine (on special offer: South African red, very nice thus far)

also, I'm going out for dinner.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Friday, 24 November 2006 18:09 (eighteen years ago) link

I plan to buy some toothbrushes.

― Aimless (Not Logged In), Friday, 24 November 2006 18:40 (eighteen years ago) link

I spent 90p on a parking ticket, and that was all.

I nearly signed a new phone contract, but wouldn't have had to pay anything for it

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 24 November 2006 19:49 (eighteen years ago) link

hippies.

― John Justen wants to hit you in the head with a pipewrench. (John Justen), Friday, 24 November 2006 19:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Why would you want to pay good money for hippies?

― Michael White (Miguelito), Friday, 24 November 2006 20:11 (eighteen years ago) link

You can buy them in bulk, by the minibus.

― John Justen wants to hit you in the head with a pipewrench. (John Justen), Friday, 24 November 2006 20:12 (eighteen years ago) link

i bought this cd. i don't know what it is, really. and i bought 9 other cd's. had i known it was buy nothing day, i would have still bought them. I've had about two weeks of buy nothing days anyways, so eat me, adbusters, i wanted the man on the pony.
---> http://image.com.com/mp3/images/cover/200/drf400/f430/f43078e1tkg.jpg

― a giant mechanical ant, Friday, 24 November 2006 20:49 (eighteen years ago) link

am going car shopping in a bit, since my current lease ends on thursday.

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Friday, 24 November 2006 20:50 (eighteen years ago) link

three (3) nanners, one (1) loaf of bread, one (1) can of biscuits

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Friday, 24 November 2006 20:56 (eighteen years ago) link

huevos rancheros.

― grady (grady), Friday, 24 November 2006 20:57 (eighteen years ago) link

(1) sandwich
(3) boxes, 9mm ammunition by Winchester

― milo (milo), Friday, 24 November 2006 21:22 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah Milo!

pillows, psp game, sewing notions, jeans, tops, toiltries, soon, groceries. ($100++)

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Friday, 24 November 2006 22:32 (eighteen years ago) link

1. petrol
2. mountain dew
3. bread
4. 1lb roast sammich turkey
5. doritos
6. malt liquor

― m00kiepr00f (m00kiepr00f), Friday, 24 November 2006 22:43 (eighteen years ago) link

-coffee
-sushi lunch
-two bottles of red wine and some beer.
-later i think we will be seeing a movie.

― derrick, Saturday, 25 November 2006 00:59 (eighteen years ago) link

I paid my phone bill and bought tickets to see tenacious d and the pick of destiny. with junior mints. and we went out to lunch beforehand.

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 25 November 2006 01:47 (eighteen years ago) link

-books by bucky fuller and ada louise huxtable
-coffee
-gyro sandwich
-bottle of domaine des blageurs syrah to bring back to the hotel room (drinking now)
-a clif "mountain mix" bar for tomorrow morning

― the pleather underground, Saturday, 25 November 2006 01:48 (eighteen years ago) link

damn i wish i had a gyro

― m00kiepr00f (m00kiepr00f), Saturday, 25 November 2006 01:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Pancakes and breakfast tacos, paper towels, Dr. Pepper, toilet paper, mandarin oranges, and some yarn. whee!

― patita (patita), Saturday, 25 November 2006 02:47 (eighteen years ago) link

petrol, some nice dice for my board games, sammich & salad, beer, board game magazine

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Saturday, 25 November 2006 03:01 (eighteen years ago) link

kf, we call it GAS here in the states you know.

― grady (grady), Saturday, 25 November 2006 03:04 (eighteen years ago) link

coffee and a breakfast sandwich
burrito and a soda
(oh god this is reminding me of the 'daily food consumption log')

― jergins (jergins), Saturday, 25 November 2006 03:18 (eighteen years ago) link

kf, we call it GAS here in the states you know.

He lives in one of those states where they won't let you touch the pump. How would he know what to call it?

― PPlains (PPlains), Saturday, 25 November 2006 04:34 (eighteen years ago) link

am going car shopping in a bit, since my current lease ends on thursday

At first read I thought how unfortunate; you're going to be living in a car, but now I geddit.

― Wench (jim wentworth), Saturday, 25 November 2006 05:46 (eighteen years ago) link

we didn't see a movie, but the spouse went shopping for groceries. so, add more food to the list.

srsly, i put up posters for BND in my high school in 2000 but i don't think it's an effective campaign anymore.

― derrick, Saturday, 25 November 2006 08:50 (eighteen years ago) link

I may well manage to buy/spend nothing on Buy Nothing Day. The weather's rotten and it seems like a good day to tackle the nursery. We forgot to leave a cheque for the milkman this morning and I paid my credit card online at five to midnight last night. Oystercard top-up can wait until tomorrow.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Saturday, 25 November 2006 10:06 (eighteen years ago) link

I bought an anvil case for my guitar.

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 26 November 2006 00:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Last night = £30 on dinner and a couple of bottles of wine in the pub. £6 on a taxi home (that's over and above the £38.94 mentioned up there). Christ, that's a total of £74.94 which isn't exactly Buy Nothing, is it?

Though if it's Saturday rather than Friday, then I'm OK because I have not left the house all day and haven't spent any money. OK, we spent £15 on a Chinese takeaway, but the money for that came out of Neil's pocket, so I'm not counting it as *my* spending.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Sunday, 26 November 2006 00:58 (eighteen years ago) link

I bought nothing on Buy Nothing Day. Pam went to Sainsbury's and that came out of the joint account but I wasn't there, so it doesn't count.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Sunday, 26 November 2006 11:51 (eighteen years ago) link

That's like my logic too. Good, isn't it?

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Sunday, 26 November 2006 12:02 (eighteen years ago) link

so this was on friday? i actually DID buy nothing! yesterday, though, I spent $97 at the tower records going-out-of-business sale.

― mandee, Sunday, 26 November 2006 16:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Hang on! That's a Slim Gailard CD or LP up there!

The jazz dude! Conning c&w fans!

Cool!

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Sunday, 26 November 2006 23:42 (eighteen years ago) link

Well, I did end up buying stuff of Friday. Not anything mentioned above, but:

-$20.00 worth of gasoline (87 octane), at $2.399/gallon
-Latté ($3.65 + $1.00 tip)
-Presonus Firebox ($265.00 plus 7.75% sales tax)
-Dinner at In-n-out (~$6.50)
-Cigarettes ($4.75)
-$8.00 for parking
-Two (2) tickets for Richie Hawtin/Jeff Mills @ Avalon Hollywood, at $10.00 each
-$28.00 worth of drinks at Avalon (incl. tip)

I spent a lot of money, thus cancelling out some of you buy-nothingers.

― naus (naus), Monday, 27 November 2006 02:04 (seventeen years ago) link

for black friday i bought no new stuff, did not go to no malls, so i think i did a'ight.

i bought a used LP at a record shop i love here in portland, exiled -- st john green, weirdo spoken word psych. sort of doors meets the red krayola maybe? am sure people on here know it. nice clean dj copy, $25, seems fair to me.

ohh also i bought coffee (a necessity), fruit and some fancy cheese (ros to be exact -- i thinkit's spanish and it's a super delicious goat cheese, or maybe sheep).

― yetimike, Monday, 27 November 2006 03:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I want that. (I am hungry.)

BTW, Mike, v. likely I'll be up in Portland before going to EMP this year. But drop me a line about that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 27 November 2006 03:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Ned! You just have to walk like two blocks for food though right? Ohh man, we just ate Ethiopian, yummmm. This one place has a dish they make with "chickpea crackers" never had it anywhere else, it's great.

Will be awesome to see you for EMP-time and we're driving up if you need a lift -- also if you need a place let us know. I'll be actually replying to your last email this week, sorry to be so slow with that business.

Ros cheese is from sheep, I was wrong. But holy fuck! It's divine.

― yetimike, Monday, 27 November 2006 03:32 (seventeen years ago) link

i bought a used LP at a record shop i love here in portland, exiled -- st john green, weirdo spoken word psych.

i was pleased to see this on cd at a shop in san diego this past weekend. i've already got a copy, but i took comfort in knowing the store had it.

― jbr, Monday, 27 November 2006 03:38 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah i think it was just bootlegged, maybe for the second time?

― yetimike, Monday, 27 November 2006 03:41 (seventeen years ago) link

You just have to walk like two blocks for food though right?

I ended up just making some, always a good approach. Mm, starch.

And yes, will talk with you more about that -- I was thinking I'd like to crash with my cousin's family as I normally do but a ride up and back would be a treat. Anyway, more in e-mail, doubtless.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 27 November 2006 04:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Hang on! That's a Slim Gailard CD or LP up there!

it IS awesome. Value added fact: thanks to track 6 ("Chicken Rhythm"), I now have two songs in my collection comprised almost entirely out of chicken "bah-CAWks." I'm finally starting to get somewhere, after so much time and money.

― a giant mechanical ant, Monday, 27 November 2006 04:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Is the other one by Rolf Harris?

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Monday, 27 November 2006 08:12 (seventeen years ago) link

hmm, i didn't know that friday was buy-nothing day. maybe that was why the gas station attendant in flemington, NJ where i filled it up was such a rude asshole (still dropped $25 for the privilege)!

― Tad (Eisbär), Monday, 27 November 2006 08:15 (seventeen years ago) link

also bought a book for $15, and two CDs (kraftwerk's "minimum/maximum" and the new jay-z CD) for $35 total.

― Tad (Eisbär), Monday, 27 November 2006 08:16 (seventeen years ago) link

kid koala (xpost). what's the rolf harris song?

minimum/maximum is so excellent.

― a giant mechanical ant (a giant mechanical ant), Monday, 27 November 2006 08:30 (seventeen years ago) link

i bought a memory card and carry case for my psp. does beer count? i bought that too.

― Ste, Monday, 27 November 2006 09:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I would guess that the other chicken song is Ray Stevens doing "In The Mood" as the Henhouse Four Plus Two.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 27 November 2006 13:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Also that Slim album is fantastic; "How High The Moon" is today's official greatest record ever made ever.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 27 November 2006 13:39 (seventeen years ago) link

shit, I'm on my way to a chicken-squawk mixtape. the other song i was thinking of is on Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.

― a giant mechanical ant (a giant mechanical ant), Monday, 27 November 2006 13:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I NEVER buy myself anything, but I fell in love with a jacket, which I bought, on Saturday.

Know sometimes you buy a life-changing piece of clothing? This is it....

― Rumps, Monday, 27 November 2006 13:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I bought a bag of wok veggies, two bottles of perfume (for the living room as our dog has shat in it two times in a frigging row), pumpkin soupmix (urgh diet starts today), 8grain bread,... That's about it for now.

― stevie nixed (stevienixed), Monday, 27 November 2006 14:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Just beer.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 27 November 2006 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh and knitting needles.

― stevie nixed (stevienixed), Monday, 27 November 2006 14:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I bought some thermal tops at the American Apparel outlet on Friday and Saturday, but that's it.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 27 November 2006 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I totally didn't buy anything on buy nothing day! I didn't do it consciously though, I just already had plenty of beer food etc.

― nklshs (nklshs), Monday, 27 November 2006 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh and knitting needles.

hooray!

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Monday, 27 November 2006 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link

BEERFOOD.

― grady (grady), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I kept it to bananas and bread, but my wife went to Wal-Mart and threw them another $100 bill. :-(

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link

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