{"id":449,"date":"2009-11-28T15:48:09","date_gmt":"2009-11-28T22:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/?p=449"},"modified":"2009-11-28T15:48:09","modified_gmt":"2009-11-28T22:48:09","slug":"buy-nothing-day-is-a-convenient-fiction-from-the-pre-internet-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2009\/11\/buy-nothing-day-is-a-convenient-fiction-from-the-pre-internet-days","title":{"rendered":"buy nothing day is a convenient fiction from the pre-internet days"},"content":{"rendered":"

I did manage to not buy anything yesterday, but that’s partly because Jim paid my way into the JFK Library\/Museum [by previous arrangement, that’s my idea of a nice date] and paid for some gas. I looked at my credit card statement to pay it off today and realized it had paid bills in my absence [a few bucks to ebay, a charge from a few days ago that cleared yesterday] and that really it’s pretty tough to have a day that doesn’t involve spending any money even though I don’t spend money all the time<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Sometimes I feel like I’m evading imagined pursuers in the ways I travel and make plans. I was away for a week this time and had a really stupidly good time considering how many things I did and people I saw. I also think I didn’t get sick. I’m home eating heirloom apples feeling the wind leaking into the cracks in the house and am happy to be here. Here’s a bulleted list of the holiday week. <\/p>\n