Being from this side of the water, obviously Thanksgiving is not any different to any other day, and I guess the same goes for this shopping day thing, but as I hate sales of any type (in fact I hate tourist season, when millions of folk clog the streets by being crap at moving sensibly) I have a jacket I always wear when I have to venture out. It actually has been useful once when I had to get to a shop during the January sales. Normally in a situation like that I would probably end up battered and bruised by a flock of 90-year olds.

Not with this jacket...

Started life as a standard bikers jacket, in thick leather.

Now a high percentage of it is covered with the little metal discs from the top of champagne bottles - affixed with the metal cages from those bottles.

Spiky and solid

Now I can walk forth into the sea of vicious pensioners with confidence that I will return with most of my limbs

Never heard of this Buy Nothing Day either - sounds a bit like New Year's Day, although then it is just due to failing to reach consciousness usually.