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Americans Spend More in the Search for Happiness—And It's Not Working
“We end up after the recession at a higher spending rate than we were at previously because we feel like we have to make up for lost time.”
Design
Instead of Black Friday or Buy Nothing, Make Something Today
Six easy DIY projects to tackle the day after Thanksgiving.
Culture
Picture Black Friday: A Competition for Images of the Retail Chaos
Now that Black Friday is over, it's time to relive the craziness with the Picture Black Friday photo project.
Business
Just So You Know: Black Friday Is Not the Biggest Shopping Day of the Year
If you feel like you have to participate in the biggest shopping day of the year, just know that it is not, contrary to popular belief, Black Friday.
Business
Buy Nothing Day Is Here—Join a Whirlmart Near You to Celebrate
The 8th annual Buy Nothing Day is here with creative calls to supplant shopping trips with community, parades, and empty shopping cart meet-ups.
Culture
Stop Shopping, Start Hearing on the National Day of Listening
StoryCorps's National Day of Listening broadcasts dialogues between regular folks as a rejoinder to the loud consumer chaos of Black Friday.
Culture
What is Canadian Thanksgiving, Anyway?
Everything you ever wanted to know about the mysterious holiday known as Canadian Thanksgiving, from a Canadian, on Thanksgiving.
Culture
The Season's Hottest Item: Nothing
How to tame reckless consumerism while still scratching the shopping itch. This Friday marks the yearly pinnacle of conspicuous consumption-Black...
