Last year I messed up by letting my fuel tank run low leading up to the 24th, and got myself about 10 gallons of 87 octane, but I’m proud to report that with two and a half hours to go, I’ve managed to buy nothing on the day after Thanksgiving. Again. I hereby pat myself on the back and pass judgment on any of you who bought into the manipulation of rampant consumerism today. Next year, I challenge you to be a complete non-participant if you are able. If you get the day off from work, excellent. If you have to punch the clock to make ends meet, brown-bag it and keep your money in your wallet. Don’t buy into this bizarre Pavlovian experiment in economic thought-control.

Take it a step further and don’t encourage the pop-hipsterism that the Buy Nothing Day folks are pushing with their stickers and posters and such. Why should the sticky-backed-paper people make money off of this either?