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✨ Buy Nothing groups
✨ Clothing banks
✨ Thrift stores (look for their sale days)
✨ Facebook marketplace (set max price to 0 or a few bucks)
✨ Clothing swaps
✨ Yard sales / Estate sales
✨ Ask your community for what you need

You do NOT need to buy new clothes or holiday decor this week. You do NOT need to buy new, period!

What if you challenged yourself not to buy anything new for the rest of the year—and nothing at ALL during the national economic blackout from today thru December 2?

The easiest, most accessible way that anyone can fight back against the billionaire class is to BUY SECONDHAND. Every used item you buy - or give away for free - is a rebellion against the hoarders at the top. Refuse to feed the machine.
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Nat
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Nat
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Capitalism has trained us to be ashamed of giving gifts that aren't purchased new. We're pushed to feel more obligated to give a gift than to ensure that it's wanted, needed, or won't end up in a landfill within 6 months.

This culture of obligatory gift-giving creates stress, waste, and immense debt.

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Straybun
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a couple of years ago, I was a salesbunny in a store. It was a big store, and I was in the tech section. When Christmas arrived, I had people coming towards me, very obviously emotionally distressed, asking me to find something to gift.

I started to notice the same pattern repeating over and over again: people putting an immense strain on their mental health and their budget, because they felt like they absolutely needed to find something. To the point of just giving that up to me, a stranger in a store, saying they didn't know what they needed or what they wanted, "just find me something cool that I can gift."

I wasn't a fan of Christmas before that. But ever since then, every time Christmas comes around, I think back to these people, how mentally exhausted they all looked. Especially women. Come to think of it, it was a lot of women. Friends, sisters, mothers. Desperate to please.

I don't want any part of this, anymore.

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Aaron
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How do we do this for food? I don't have a garden, got laid off, and we are running out of money.
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Linza
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@hosford42 In a similar circumstance, I dropped animal products and processed foods. Even with the B12 and multivitamin, still way cheaper than meat and cheese. My time was deemed worthless by Capital, so I could use more of it chopping vegetables and baking bread.
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Aaron
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@Linza How do you get the vegetables? (I'm comfortable with vegan, even if my family is not.) I can't do bread anymore, sadly, thanks to diabetes.
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Linza
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@hosford42 I joined the union when I was young, healthy, and earning a lot of money, so when I got COVID and was shoved out of the company, there was union insurance to fall back on. I get some money per month to live on, for now. It will be interesting to see what happens when that stops being the case, because I can still either socialize or study or get the house chores done, but I can't do more than one per day.
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Huntn00
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@Linza @hosford42 Unions are far from perfect but they are better than individuals ‘on their own’ against the man, forced into functioning almost in a slave-like manner by Capitalists most intent on accruing capital at their expense.
Unions are organizations designed by workers for and to support workers from the ‘why we can live the good life, but you a “team member” can’t’, the incessant “oh we can’t afford that” management refrain. 🤔
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Just Bob ♒🇺🇲🪖🐧
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@Huntn00 @Linza @hosford42

A street paper I know went union for the staff and the vendors were told it was to protect them.

11 months later and they have the "i am better than you" attitude.

@Huntn00 @Linza @Aaron
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WorldTravelerAll7
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I agree 💯 . i just wish that when we do need to buy something new, we could know which businesses are 'blue' owned or supporting, and which are fascist or fascist appeasers

i want to 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 shop blue & deprive the fascists of what the care about most - $

worldtravelerall7.substack.com…


Shopping Blue

How to keep blue $ blue and take away their power
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🌴 Seph 💭 👾
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@Nat I keep telling people all I need is well wishes, and if'n you insist on giving me something, a card is fine. I've had some rough financial times in the past, and at this point, I buy what I need when I need it, and treats occasionally, I neither need nor want anything when the holidays come around.
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