i'm ashamed to admit that BUY NOTHING DAY slipped my mind until 6:43 pm yesterday. in the past BUY NOTHING DAY was in the forefront of my mind. perhaps i've been the victim of some brilliant corporate misdirection or subliminal advertising. of course it might be due to deterioration of my brain or maybe i just like buying stuff. in any case, this friday is BUY NOTHING DAY.
last month we in the great white north celebrated thanksgiving and i thought it was a pretty hypocritical event. most people i know complain about not getting enough stuff rather than giving thanks for what they do have. after watching the u.s. election campaign i have to conclude that my southern neighbors are similar, spending much more time complaining rather than being thankful for what they do have. but tomorrow most people will pretend to be thankful. shit, a certain old curmudgeon we all know and love will be thankful in a church for an hour or two. so it goes.
today i'm thankful for 2 things. 1. that sleazy hypocritical prick jesse jackson jr RESIGNED FROM CONGRESS. how often do big shot crooks suddenly have mental problems when they're faced with criminal charges? pretty fucking often. 2. christmas came early:
(it's an ad from a previous year so disregard the nov 26 reference.)
i love you sons of bitches
45 comments:
I won't be in any church for an hour or two, maybe half an hour and it's a COMMUNITY DINNER. And I don't care who thinks I'm a fucking hipocrit for going there.
There's a hell of a lot of days I buy nothing and I damn sure won't on Friday but Thurman's has some decent entertainment cabinets on close out for 99 bucks and I'm thinking of getting one to spruce up the cave a bit.
I'll post a picture of one on Friday but won't buy it then, first I have first I have to figure out how to clear some shit out to get it in here.
Wanna roll top desk? It's going to have to go.
Fucked up and posted the same comment twice.
BBC, even when someone's not giving you shit, you think they're giving you shit.
You might get along better with folks if you paid attention or just got a little smarter.
(And I'm not talking about me. I was totally giving you shit.)
I will buy nothing Friday. I won't even go outside Friday.
Leslie none of us give a fuck what you think or when you shop. Go pitch your shit on someone else instead of me.
Interesting post by REFUGE CREEK.
I won't even go outside Friday.
Fuck, she's on a computer 24/7/365, the neighbors don't even know she exists.
Really? You speak for all humankind, do you? Good to know.
I've not been on a computer once today. Now let's count how many comments you've left on blogs, and then we'll count mine.
Also? I've been gone a week. How 'bout you?
You are slobbering on your keyboard, go to bed.
I forgot about buy nothing on black Friday. Which personal I've never experience and I've told people I've never went out shopping on black friday...I get all sort of comments because I don't do shop the day after Thanksgiving but I could care less what there opinion is.
Not sure what it actual called but now there having stores special Thanksgiving evening. I know Wal-Mart is having some super sale on flat screen tv at eight that evening.
So we're eating Thanksgiving earlier so some can head down for there flat screen television
I guess the main reasons I don't go I have no desire to help out the greediness of it all.
Don't quite get your picture it looks like bud on a door made into a cutting block of some type.
Coffee is on.
bud on a door, hehehehe
Oh, sure, buy nuthin' NOW, after ya got yer fancy DIGITAL scales and yer fancy fuckin' BUDS on a fancy vintage wood DOOR.
Dirty fuckin' hippies.
whas at smell?
I suspect those consumption statistics about Americans are misleading because they've been calculated at market value, not allowing for the fact that equivalent goods and services are much cheaper in Mexico and India. Having said that, there's no doubt that a lot of Americans are fatasses who eat too much and waste energy.
gobble gobble
Have a relaxing day.
bill - have and excellent meal at the church. maybe you can draw a mustache and black out a front tooth on a jesus picture.
leslie - adbusters thanks you for your support.
harry - it's a pull out shelf from an old oak desk. i love this old son of a bitch oak desk.
gb - yes, i suppose the diabetes rates for north americans are similarly high in comparison to less developed areas. if you look at the packaging used it probably is 30 X higher.
As much as I would like to at times I will not defile any of their property, but if they give me a bible I'll burn it in a campfire.
I did not see bud on a door, or a desk slide out, I saw bud on a scale.
I love my heavy old oak desk also.
You defile it by walking in. And thanks for the Thanksgiving shout out, but rest assured there is no chance we will ever share a meal. I like my dinner companions to have teeth. I'm not some mama bird who's going to pre-chew your meatloaf and tater tots for you!
Also, "armoire" is a French word for "cabinet", so "armoire cabinet", though hilarious, is really fucking stupid.
Happy holidays, buddy!
I'm sure everyone on this planet knows French and what the fucking words means.
Actually, most could fucking care less and just call a cabinet a fucking cabinet.
Everyone but you, apparently.
And the phrase is "could NOT fucking care less". Get it?
i'm with bill on this one. i could care less is basically a sarcastic form of i couldn't care less.
and an armoire could be a wardrobe.
of course i could be wrong, it happened in 2007.
Armoire was changed to Armory by us, cuz, well, fuck the French. Like I said they were originally used to store guns, and all the things you needed for guns back then.
But anymore they are configured for any use you can think of for them. If she has an issue with the sign she can take it up with Thurman's, I didn't make the fucking sign.
They are actually made of wood instead of pressed sawdust and the hardware is good stuff, ball bearing slides, heavy duty hinges. I couldn't buy the materials for that price to make one, and they look decent, pretty sure I'll get one.
how's the quitting smoking going?
I'm doing pretty well at it, better than Pipe is, not sure how Teri is doing, she seems to have dropped off the planet, isn't even responding to emails.
Just noticed I didn't put on a new patch after washing this morning, oh well, will wait and put one on at bedtime, they're great for dreams.
I gpt down to 3 cigs yesterday; I've had one thus far today. Up until a few days ago, I was at at least a pack and a half a day!!! And I'm fully celebrating buy nothing day - I'm eating leftover turkey and stuffing, drinking cosmos, and watching the 5th season of Dexter on DVD...
Nice to see her back, and doing well on the smoking. Go Doc.
bill - a patch??? those are girls and wusses. i just kicked the crap out of my dog for 3 days when i quit.
I don't have a dog and the cats are too fast.
i finished season 1 of deadwood last night. i have yet to find any television shows that rival deadwood.
Proud to say I bought nothing yesterday...
Ashamed to say it was because I got sick to my stomach from all the booze the night before!
Great fucking idea though, needs to become a tradition.
THIS LADY IS WAY TOO FUNNY.
Bought nothing.
they say walmart did 5000 transactions per second. 30,000 per minute, 1.8 million per hour etc, etc...
SHADY.
You know, it strikes me that we should really have a consume nothing day to complement the buy nothing day.
For safety sake it would need to be in late spring or early fall, and to get any kind of participation it should be on a Saturday or Sunday.
Turn off the power main, close the water main, lock up the fridge, the pantry, and the keys to the car. Fast from sun up until sun down, allowing only water or home grown foods. No phones, internet, TV. Plant a tree to offset oxygen consumption. Shit in the hole before placing the sapling.
Who's with me?
I don't have a water main, and I can do without the power and the truck for a day, I often do that anyway, but don't ask me to not eat for a day. I'm a skinny fuck and can't fast for a day, I have to eat something that will make a bit of a turd.
Home grown food? How about all the wild food growing here? Plant a tree? Fuck, I'm surrounded by trees here, they breed like rabbits.
Geez, at least he didn't mention not drinking a little booze.
I'm going fishing..
Catch ya later....
thims - that would be a very tough sell, i don't bill clinton could even pull that one off. i've been using crushed egg shells for fertilizer when i plant tomatoes.
bill - good luck fishin. some folks say fishing on a sunday is a sin.
I didn't know that it was buy nothing day, but I don't think I bought anything anyway, so I kind of did my part, just by being a cheapskate.
That pic makes me wish there was smell-o-vision.
tex - it does smell mighty fine. makes my mouth water thinking about it.
bill - try this, FISHIN
Fishing on a Sunday is a sin? Maybe that is why I wuz the only one on da lake.
Caught one 12 incher but the min size on that lake is 14 inches, I wasn't hungry so I let it go. If I had been hungry I would have filleted it before releasing it.
here's how we FISH IN CANADA
BBC - Fillet and release program, first I've heard of it, but I'm on board.
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