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This coming Friday, the biggest shopping day of the year has been designated now as two things that are the complete opposite of capitalism, buy nothing day and fur free Friday. To be honest I’m not sure when buy nothing day started but I remember fur free Friday starting back in the mid 90’s. The purpose of fur free Friday was to get out and protest one of the sickest industries in the world today, obviously the fur industry. The thought was on the supposed biggest shopping day of the year we in the animal rights community could get our message out to more people since more people are out that day. Buy nothing day is a response the the consumer filled day that the has become. Before people ask what the point of buying nothing is when you’re just going to buy stuff the following days or weeks it is meant as more of a statement day than anything else. So this Friday keep in mind that while you may be going out on a day long adventure looking for all those great 50% off deals that there are bigger and better causes being fought for than finding the best deal in the store.

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