Breakfast in Scarborough

Stewart and I have declared today a Buy Nothing Day. Hooray! So far, so good. No impulse buys. No debits or dexits. I like it because the day feels more meaningful; it just hangs together better when I put my consumer self on hold for awhile. And since I’m sort of broke right now, the break from spending can only be good.

Last night we were musing about urban, industrial life, how it’s not so subtle subtext is SPEND, SPEND, SPEND! It made me think about my greatgrandparents Fred and Lizzie who had a farm and raised mules in Missouri. I imagine most days were Buy Nothing Days, though I can’t see them calling them such. Buy Something Days were probably a lot more of a novelty. I remember Gran saying they rode out the Depression fine because they grew their own food. We had a hard enough time finding something tasty to eat during the blackout of 2003.

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