Friday, the biggest retail day of the year, I will be celebrating Buy Nothing Day with my sister.  Since we're both pretty shopaphobic, especially in NYC, this shouldn't be too hard.  We are planning to cook, go for a walk, rollerskate in the park, see some art, perhaps visit a friend who has to work...

Can you buy nothing for a day?  What does this mean? How far does it go?  We won't be able to grow our own food and cook it with homemade implements over a fire.  We'll probably take public transportation at some point.  If we see a show, we'll have to buy the ideas that the powers that be - the gallery system, urban tastemakers, corporate sponsors - have declared are art.   Let me know where you draw the lines, and report back on what you end up doing.  Happy Thanksgiving!

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