I have a calendar that shows me all sorts of “special days” popping up throughout the year, some are funny (World Toilet Day) while others are more meaningful (Buy Nothing Day) and it got me thinking, if these meaningful “special days” are meant to get us to think about specific issues, why keep it to one day? Make it an entire week!
Okay so perhaps “Buy nothing week” would be hard for most people but why not? If nothing else it would get us to think more clearly about what we spend out money on and how we can save up on things which aren’t really needed. Last week was a real set of extremes as far as spending goes. On the one hand you have “buy nothing day”, which is easy enough to follow but then on the other there’s “Black Friday”, which apparently was a huge day of sale followed by many stores slashing down prices for one day only. Is it not a little paradoxical?
There are other Weeks we could organise, formally or not. “No meat week” is one that comes to mind. Again, it’s simple enough to not eat meat for one day, but doing it for just one day can hardly bring awareness of our dependance of meat products.
How about “No cheese week”? (A tough one for me).
“No car week”?
“No alcohol week”?
The idea isn’t to encourage people to completely stop consuming the things they’re consuming but to make them aware of their relative necessity and how cutting down on some things can have a much greater impact, on health, the environment, public safety, etc…
One day just won’t work…
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