If you’re living in Canada, you can avoid today’s shopping craziness, जो अमेरिकी में. is known as “ब्लैक फ्राइडे” — the day-after-Thanksgiving, start-of-the-Christmas-shopping-season, mega-sale shopping day.

यहाँ कनाडा में, it’s just a regular work day.

But if you want to take the no-shopping thing one step further, today is Buy Nothing Day.

Originally conceived by Vancouver artist and activist Ted Dave (here’s a brief history of Buy Nothing Day) and now promoted by the Vancouver-based Adbusters organization, Buy Nothing Day is an international protest against consumerism.

As Adbusters says, “There’s only one way to avoid the collapse of this human experiment of ours on Planet Earth: we have to consume less.”

से Adbusters’ वेबसाइट:

We’re asking tens of millions of people around the world to bring the capitalist consumption machine to a grinding – if only momentary – halt.

We want you to not only stop buying for 24 hours, but to shut off your lights, televisions and other nonessential appliances. We want you to park your car, turn off your phones and log off of your computer for the day.

We’re calling for a Ramadan-like fast. From sunrise to sunset we’ll abstain en masse, not only from holiday shopping, but from all the temptations of our five-planet lifestyles.

कनाडा में, खरीदें कुछ भी दिन की घटनाओं में कर रहे हैं मध्ययुगीन इटली में सम्राट के विरुद्ध पोप का समर्थन करने वाले दल का सदस्य (पर) और मॉन्ट्रियल, but you don’t need to go to an event to honor the day — you can just stay home!

अधिक जानना चाहते हैं? देखना Adbusters’ Buy Nothing Day Campaign या बाहर की जांच फेसबुक खरीदें कुछ भी नहीं दिवस समारोह.