Andrea

>Started about five years ago by a
>Canadian magazine named Adbusters.

I thought the number quoted by David Alpert was wrong so I checked it on
the Adbusters website. It says there BND started 11 years ago but even
that seems too recent. Anyone else remember something similar before then?

For the record, I went shopping on BND :-) It is not a big shopping day in
Canada as it is in the US (because our Thanksgiving is in October, and on a
Monday) and as I said to my husband, just about every other day of the year
is buy nothing day for me.

Canadian Mennonites have started a "Buy Nothing Christmas" if anyone is
interested. http://www.buynothingchristmas.org/

Donna Andrea in Nova Scotia

Tia Leschke

>
> For the record, I went shopping on BND :-) It is not a big shopping day
in
> Canada as it is in the US (because our Thanksgiving is in October, and on
a
> Monday) and as I said to my husband, just about every other day of the
year
> is buy nothing day for me.

So did I. As long as BND is on a Friday, I'll be a shopper because that's
my regular town day. If I go on a different day, I'll end up with overdue
library books.
Tia