This holiday season: SAVE!!
The Holiday Season is here and this morning around 5 am hundreds of businesses will be opening their doors to thousands of patrons. It's propagated all across the land as "Black Friday." This is the day when U.S. citizens (particularly Blacks, Black Friday? What else could it mean?) ascend into debt....
and my Black ass won't be one of them. This Holiday Season I'm going to try my best to refrain from spending. I want to save, and the only way I can do that is to not spend. This time of the year is worst on the wallet and the stomach of the proletariat and best for the billionaire business mogul.
Those tycoons of industry won't be getting any of my dollars. My goal is to go into the new year with at least 1000 dollars saved. Which may be a stretch for me (knowing myself and my spending habits and the amount of money I spend on bills each month), but if I budget and don't spend so much money on luxury then it's a goal that I should obtain. (Is weed a luxury?)
It's hard avoiding 5 dollar DVD deals (not on the shitty shit either but the new shit!), but I have to. I'm getting my cable cut off next week that'll be a few extra bucks laying around each month. I'm thinking about getting my gym membership canceled, but 30 bucks a month at 24 Hour Fitness, is the truth, and plus I love hooping up there. I think I'm going to do it though. I can find an outdoor park somewhere. It's all about sacrifices.
The last two months of the year seem to me a guilt trip imposed by corporate and government propaganda to spend money to make up for the other ten months you weren't spending. The only Thanks we're getting is the Thanks from the corporations who we're giving all of our hard earned money.
Underneath the presents and the fat ladened meals that put on pounds that we're most likely never to burn off in a lifetime (article about just that linked in the title of this post), is the virtues of family, love, friendship, compassion, and sharing. It shouldn't matter if you received what you wished for, we're all lucky in some sort of way. We all are given the greatest gifts all year around, the kind of gifts (forgive me for this) that money can't buy. We're never thankful.
We're always lusting after 160 gigabyte Ipods when we have a perfectly good 80 gig Ipod. We're always trying to upgrade our cars, our computers, our wardrobe, everything. Nothing is ever good enough and I think we need to realize that what we have is perfectly fine. The onslaught of corporate advertising doesn't help but I can be stronger than that. I don't need DVD's, shoes, clothes, or hats. I don't need cable television or an Ipod/remote control/fucking incinerator/food processing/phone booth/dog grooming/car bathroom. Fuck that shit.
You want to know what's hot on the streets?
SAVING!!
and my Black ass won't be one of them. This Holiday Season I'm going to try my best to refrain from spending. I want to save, and the only way I can do that is to not spend. This time of the year is worst on the wallet and the stomach of the proletariat and best for the billionaire business mogul.
Those tycoons of industry won't be getting any of my dollars. My goal is to go into the new year with at least 1000 dollars saved. Which may be a stretch for me (knowing myself and my spending habits and the amount of money I spend on bills each month), but if I budget and don't spend so much money on luxury then it's a goal that I should obtain. (Is weed a luxury?)
It's hard avoiding 5 dollar DVD deals (not on the shitty shit either but the new shit!), but I have to. I'm getting my cable cut off next week that'll be a few extra bucks laying around each month. I'm thinking about getting my gym membership canceled, but 30 bucks a month at 24 Hour Fitness, is the truth, and plus I love hooping up there. I think I'm going to do it though. I can find an outdoor park somewhere. It's all about sacrifices.
The last two months of the year seem to me a guilt trip imposed by corporate and government propaganda to spend money to make up for the other ten months you weren't spending. The only Thanks we're getting is the Thanks from the corporations who we're giving all of our hard earned money.
Underneath the presents and the fat ladened meals that put on pounds that we're most likely never to burn off in a lifetime (article about just that linked in the title of this post), is the virtues of family, love, friendship, compassion, and sharing. It shouldn't matter if you received what you wished for, we're all lucky in some sort of way. We all are given the greatest gifts all year around, the kind of gifts (forgive me for this) that money can't buy. We're never thankful.
We're always lusting after 160 gigabyte Ipods when we have a perfectly good 80 gig Ipod. We're always trying to upgrade our cars, our computers, our wardrobe, everything. Nothing is ever good enough and I think we need to realize that what we have is perfectly fine. The onslaught of corporate advertising doesn't help but I can be stronger than that. I don't need DVD's, shoes, clothes, or hats. I don't need cable television or an Ipod/remote control/fucking incinerator/food processing/phone booth/dog grooming/car bathroom. Fuck that shit.
You want to know what's hot on the streets?
SAVING!!
i support what you are doing. its pretty pointless to stress over buying everyone a gift when at the end, they probably dont even like the "surprise" you got them. i think i'm going to cut back on the spending as well. but instead of just not getting anyone anything, i think i want to make gifts this year...
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