I BYOB’d Black Friday

This past Friday is a famous day. Known across the country as Black Friday, it’s the big shopping day of the year. In response, activists against consumerism informally re-named the day Buy Nothing Day. Many of my fellow greenies take part in the latter.

And I’m sure many may be sad to hear that I participate in Black Friday. I don’t come home with two truckloads full of "stuff", but I do take care of a decent part of my holiday shopping on this day. My husband and I find it fun, whereas others find it just too crazy.

This year, I tried to turn my Black Friday into a lighter shade: green. In our Thanksgiving weekend shopping, we did not use any plastic shopping bags. Correction: until 6pm Sunday night.

When we left the house at 5:30 on Friday morning, I was ready. I carried my orange tote as my purse, and packed the hemp bags in, as well. We filled these up, and when switching stores, unloaded them in the truck and returned with empty bags.

Our downfall was a last minute stop at the Miramar Outlets last night, before crossing the state to return to Miami. We popped in for just 20 minutes to check out the stores and make a quick pit stop. We completed one purchase, and realized the bags were in the car. Oops.

Christmas shopping = basically done. Plastic shopping bag count = 1. Not too shabby.