Why Does Black Friday Exist?
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- čas přidán 9. 06. 2024
- Black Friday is the American tradition where millions of shoppers wait in long lines to buy more Stuff. How did the season of giving turn into the season of buying? Why does Black Friday even exist?
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In Rhode Island for the last 22 years on the day after Thanksgiving we have had the Buy Nothing Day Winter Coat Exchange in which donated winter coats are distributed for free to thousands of Rhode Islanders . The main event takes place on the state house lawn, but there are events in 10 cities and towns around the state. It is one of the most amazing events you could imagine.. We started it to protest Black Friday by doing something the community really needed.
Conspicuous consumption and retail therapy have gotten us to where we are today. Buy less, recycle and reuse more. The path to the future relies on us embracing these actions.
Thankfully my brother a few years ago declared "No presents."
Black friday = Bad friday
Thanks so much for all you do to call attention to the craziness that has become our normal lives.
Shopping: United States citizens favorite hobby. That's sad.
I love this video!!! So glad i found u guys!!! Thru my biology 6 professor no less!!!
Love this!!!
Black Friday is spreading across the world, it is not just in the US anymore. In my country it started few years ago, some shops would offer it but now it's gaining its momentum as more and more shops offer black friday discounts.
Went to the Kennedy-Krieger festival of trees with kids and grandchildren. Saw my 2 year old grand-daughter take her first pony ride. I had a very bright Friday!
Thank you for this great reminder!! I'm grateful for family friends, little things and God
This year, give experiences rather than stuff. Clear out the outgrown toys (WITH the kids help) and donate them.
Black Friday consumer frenzy, Red Monday 3rd of 4th Monday when heart attacks and strokes peak when the paycheck and credit card bill land on the mat.
Spend times with friends and family and buy only what they need and what they will consume. Usually means fairtrade organic tea and / or coffee. That's it.
Almost a decade ago, I discovered a project called Advent Conspiracy (check it out on google) which informed us that somewhere around $400 billion was spent in America on buying stuff at Christmas time, mostly stuff not needed by family & friends. The challenge? Why not discuss with family and take some of the money spent on family for stuff at Christmas and divert those funds to projects to benefit the needy around the globe? Our small church decided to do this and have gathered donations in December for drilling wells in an African country. We're a small church but over almost a decade, we've been able to provide water wells for about 12 or so villages. It's not solving all the huge global problems, but it sure feels good to know that several thousand people have been able to enjoy clean accesible water. I don't know if I can be anonymous here, but I'll try.
As America gets so much attention, Black Friday starts to be a bit of a thing elsewhere too, like in Germany. We don't know what it is - but, whatever, sales will be triggered with apparent %%%
It's sad indeed how much emotion we connect with, how we build our lives around excessive consumption, how we're tought from the beginning that happiness has to be bought.
they are forcing it on us in Australia as well ( and Halloween trick or treating as well - thought he kids have NO idea of why they are going around expecting strangers to give them lollies and chocolates for no reason )
shout out a great BUY NOTHING DAY 2020 !!
Thank you so much for this video. I've been on it with my students about Black Friday. Can you believe that some say it is related to the time of Slavery in the US? Will be sharing this with many to enlighten their history. It's time to start a new age of consuming...consuming knowledge of the truth of why so many things are misinterpreted.
Black Friday? Buy Nothing Day for me. I honestly never buy anything on Black Friday. Instead, I
am working on some projects, converting good quality old furniture into really nice, modern pieces.Most of my Xmas gifts are home made,
-- or real High Quality treasures from the Fleamarket and Yardsales....that I buy year round.
Not BUYING anything I don't NEED. Different from WANTING. Unsubscribing from most e-mail lists, not reading advertisements, not watching TV and with filling all that new freedom and time with PEOPLE AND ANIMALS.
Good point: we turned the season of giving into the season of buying (for ourselves).
Thanksgiving was originally declared by a colonial governor in gratitude that the last of the First-Nations people in his area had been killed. Before that, Squanto was kidnapped by the first European invaders of his area and sold into slavery in England, where his "owner" sold him to someone in France. He managed to escape, get to England and stow away on a ship bound for New England. All of this took years, and by the time he got back, his village had been burned to the ground--not one person left alive. To survive, he had to throw in with the Pilgrims, and of course he showed them how to survive in that chilly, rocky-soiled environment. That's the origin of the Indians helping the Pilgrims. How about re-naming it Gratitude Day and telling each other what we're grateful for?
Gratitude Day is something I would like to celebrate!
shut up and buy buy buy!
I find the whole buying frency obscene. How much stuff is enough stuff? If you can feed/clothe yourself, and stay warm, there is not much more you need.
Gadgets. You can't access the Internet or CZcams with clothes and food alone!
Entertainment, the phone, computer, laptop, smart tv or console you wrote your comment on is part of that. I play the guitar and have a gaming console, as well as a smart tv, and the main point of Black Friday for my family is usually buying gifts for the children and each other, as well as relatives. It makes it a lot easier to get things that you want but cant afford normally.
Sure. Gratefulness over greed!
Did he say "tofurkey"?? Doesn't he know that tofu is toxic? It's enough to drive me out shopping.
, then try dubu:-)
The Industrial Revolution originated in Britain and then spread from there to Germany.
You didn't mention why it's that day though. Why the day after Thanksgiving?
SolidWolfG he kinda did by saying it’s the first day of the holiday season - the first day where the next holiday is Christmas.
INSANITY. Deleting all emails from retailers offering black Friday specials. Will stay home. Spend no money. Write a blog.
I do that anyway. If there is 'Black Friday', 'Cyber Monday' or 'Giving Tuesday' in the title of the email I automatically delete it. I know that charities are a racket for the most part and most of the money donated is spent on salaires.
How I do it special...? Advice, donate some 2 better 3 figures to ASPCA. Wild animal sanctuary or you name it...
bet if you could have saved 50% off that shirt and off the lights you used to make this video, you would have chosen it if no crazy crowds. I went shopping yesterday and there was no frenzy, were no crowds, and saved 50% off some great clothes, giving me more money to go buy food to cook for the holidays.
"family over frenzy" - cunning linguists.
So Black Friday is a boomer
oh just reminding me again that nothing good came out of the '80s, what a screwing decade!
Great Video! Thank you for the preceding info in the blog! After 911 Pres. Bush suggested to the American people to spend money to feel better. Others may have suggested praying and supporting others.
I might buy an electric car today online (no lines-lol) to insure the federal tax credit for 2018! Not really a Black Friday thing, more a, we better lower our carbon foot print thing before we join the dinosaurs.
inaccurate account. The first recorded use of the term “Black Friday” was applied not to holiday shopping but to financial crisis: specifically, the crash of the U.S. gold market on September 24, 1869. Two notoriously ruthless Wall Street financiers, Jay Gould and Jim Fisk, worked together to buy up as much as they could of the nation’s gold, hoping to drive the price sky-high and sell it for astonishing profits. On that Friday in September, the conspiracy finally unraveled, sending the stock market into free-fall and bankrupting everyone from Wall Street barons to farmers.
The most commonly repeated story behind the post-Thanksgiving shopping-related Black Friday tradition links it to retailers. As the story goes, after an entire year of operating at a loss (“in the red”) stores would supposedly earn a profit (“went into the black”) on the day after Thanksgiving, because holiday shoppers blew so much money on discounted merchandise. Though it’s true that retail companies used to record losses in red and profits in black when doing their accounting, this version of Black Friday’s origin is the officially sanctioned-but inaccurate-story behind the tradition.
In 1939, President Franklin D Roosevelt decided to move the Thanksgiving holiday
up a week to give Depression era retailers more time to make money during the
pre-Christmas shopping season.
I do not participate in Black Friday. I have better things to do with my time than wait in line for a store to open just so I might have the chance to buy the latest gadget I likely don't need ( or the person I'm buying it for likely doesn't need either). Anyone who waits in line for hours on end (often over night) has no life. But hey if you want to run the risk of being trampled, pepper sprayed or have some other malady befall you go ahead be my guest.
Important topic here. BUT needs to include: Labor movement (+ welfare state) achievement of middle class -- and especially 'Mad Men' style mass advertising -- in birthing hyper consumerism. As it is, this video is mostly 'preaching to the choir'....
This didn't explain a thing about Black Friday
1st day shopping for the holiday season.
"I'll be staying home napping off my third helping of tofurky"
So, it's bad to buy stuff we don't need but not to eat stuff we don't need?
Hello. I support your work. It's reasonable and makes sense. However, I don't understand the usefulness of the background music. I could not finish watching the video because of the music. Something so serious and important is belittled by the music. Can you imagine listening to your mom with music playing in the background? It's an insult.
Did you really start this video by describing Thanksgiving as a favorite holiday, and in contrast to the shopping spree of the day after? The first Thanksgiving was an official day of celebration following a huge massacre of Pequot people for the purpose of seizing Native land and "stuff." "Black Friday" is a natural extension of a holiday that is based on looting.
Some people only act to be ignorant.
Actually, Thanksgiving, under various names, is just an end-of-harvest festival. In Canada, this feast is held a month earlier because our growing season is shorter and harvesting happens earlier. The massacre of Pequot people is a tragedy. One that is repeated throughout human history to far too many people and continues today. Genocides are sadly nothing new, and ongoing. Bringing strife to a celebration of giving thanks (something we should do) has nothing to do with the wrong of committing a horrendous act. Don't make the error of confusing issues. Deplore genocide, absolutely! And celebrate thanks for the abundance of the season, separately, for the good reminder that it is.
Why only Friday is black..why not sunday .. actcually Friday is the most Holy day and muslim receite Friday prayer togather Anti muslim and zahonist are trying to destroy this precious day
Yes to Tofurky! Go Vegan! 💚😍🌱
"family over frenzy" - cunning linguists.