Here it comes again... that day of post Thanksgiving, deal-getting, stuff-buying, early-bird-door-busting, trampling, gotta-have-it shopping. For many of us in the United States, that day is known as Black Friday - the biggest and busiest shopping day of the year when many retailers give shoppers the "best deals" possible for the Christmas holiday season. How can that be bad, right? Well, our spending and consuming have reallly put us in a financial bad place. The average American adult will rack up nearly $1000
on his or her credit card during the Christmas shopping season. For two adult households, that's $2000 in credit card debt. To use Annie Leonard's terms, our Story of Stuff has now become our Story of Broke. The good news is, each of us has control over how much we spend. We can simply buy less. Luckily there is an answer to Black Friday. It's called Buy Nothing Day.
