Whoa. Whoa. Unmush, will ya?

Yukon Cornelius

http://www.thelookingspoon.com/

I think you're cute.

Clarice

Hey, what do you say we both be independent together, huh?

Hermey

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I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest, to make money they don't want, to buy things they don't need, to impress people they don't like.
Emile Gauvreau

In the age of consumerism and getting stuff, tricking the system, rigging the system, along comes a holiday that makes us feel warm and squishy inside.  We have exorcised the religion out of it and are left with more stress and a hollow emptiness.  Leo Babauta has a campaign to stop the insanity.  Buy nothing until 2013.

Manifesto

Freedom from consumerism. Freedom from corporations (or a little bit of freedom, at least). Freedom from debt and overspending. Freedom from the need to shop to be happy. Freedom from the use of shopping as therapy or stress relief. Freedom from shopping as a way to connect with others. Freedom from buying to show our love for others. Freedom from sales and holiday madness and malls and huge chain stores and crazy shoppers. Freedom from overuse of resources, from wasted packaging, from wasted fuel to ship all that junk to the store.

Freedom from crap we don’t need.

We are more than consumers. We don’t need to buy gifts to celebrate the holidays with each other — we can get together, make delicious food, go outside and do something fun, play games, talk, tell jokes, tell stories, give hugs.

We are alive, and don’t want to waste the hours we have in chain box stores and malls buying things we don’t really need.

We know that just because stores have massive sales doesn’t mean we need to buy what they’re selling. Sales don’t mean we’re saving money — it means we’re spending it. We used precious life hours earning our money, and we want to use that to live, not buy.

We are free from buying, and free to live.

http://zenhabits.net/buy-nada/

I’d say based on the Black Friday, Cyber Monday, craziness, good luck. 

Most interesting statistic from Black Friday…Gun sales hit a record.  Crippled the FBI background check database.

I like the finish - When we are free from buying, we are free to live

If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment.
Confucius