If you’re living in Canada, you can avoid today’s shopping craziness, 其中，中美. is known as “黑色星期五” — the day-after-Thanksgiving, start-of-the-Christmas-shopping-season, mega-sale shopping day.

在加拿大, it’s just a regular work day.

But if you want to take the no-shopping thing one step further, 今天是 无消费日.

Originally conceived by Vancouver artist and activist 特德·戴夫 (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.

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

从 Adbusters’ 网站:

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.

在加拿大, 有在无消费日活动 圭尔夫 (作者：) å’Œ 蒙特利尔, but you don’t need to go to an event to honor the day — you can just stay home!

想了解更多? 看 Adbusters’ Buy Nothing Day Campaign 或检查出 Facebook的无消费日活动.