Okay, I’m disturbed. I really was going to try to do a 13 on all the reasons NOT to shop on the infamous Black Friday. In general, even in these hard economic times, I’m against the whole deal. I mean, they get us one way or another, but is consumerism really what America is all about? Anyway. I have too much novel writing to catch up on to do a very long post, but I’m going to try to jam this out. I want to tell you 12 reasons not to shop tomorrow, (I hope I can come up with that many…) and one place to shop if you simply MUST, and why. Here goes:

Thirteen Things about Black Friday Buy Nothing Day

1) Twenty percent of the world’s richest nations are consuming 80 percent of the resources. That’s us. Take a day off, please?
2) The lines will be insanely long. There are no such thing as a pair of shoes comfortable enough to handle this. Your feet will hurt.
3) It will be a zoo. Lot’s of rude people that will stress you out.
4) To rephrase: The average North American consumes five times more than a Mexican person, 10 times more than a Chinese person and 30 times more than a person from India.
5) Stretch your creative muscles instead of your calf muscles. Do something personal and creative to show your loved ones you care this Yule. Make them a gift, write them a song or poem. Show your love without buying!!
6) Eat leftovers and lounge in front of the TV. Lot’s of games on for you sports fans.
7) Catch up on all the comments you’ve been meaning to leave.
8) Go check out AdBuster Campaign. Food for thought.
9) Watch this video over and over until you can laugh about it through your tears:

10)Pull out all the “stuff” people gave you last year that they bought just because it was on sale, even though they should have known that you would hate it and figure out who you’re going to regift what to.
11)If you go, you’ll feel so guilty for using your blind grandmother’s handicapped placard to park when you don’t really need it.
12) If you don’t steal or borrow a handicapped placard, you’ll never find parking.
13)If you DO have to shop, PLEASE go to Walmart, just so these coat tail riding fundy assholes don’t get to make a mark with their anti gay, hateful boycott: Read about the AFA and their agenda of hate, here.
Thanks for stopping by. back to my novel. (Oh!! 13-1/2] If you are a NaNo-er, you’d better be pounding out the WC instead of shopping tomorrow! That’s what I’ll be doing!)

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