Day One of Thirty Days

I just posted under the 30 Days of Nothing link on the right side of the blog.

30 Days of Nothing is Three Days Away

Lots of great conversations about this 30 day challenge happening in blogland.

Tonia’s original post is here.

Follow-up info is here.

Doodah has thrown down the gauntlet here and wrtitten on a related moral issue here.

Mary posts her ideas about this lifestyle reflection challenge too.

I haven’t had time to fully think about my direction. But I do know I want to use up what I have and learn to be more content with what I have.

How about you? Have you thought about how excess commercialism affects, directs, influences your daily life? Would you share?

30 Days of Nothing Happens in September

Tonia at Intent recently shared a radical proposal: 30 Days of Nothing.

It’s not what you think.

While sitting around doing nothing sounds appealing this is an even better idea. Tonia, her family and many others are doing a 30 day fast from consumerism.

Tonia writes, “For 30 days, my family will buy nothing except our basic necessities. No clothes or books. No movies, no trips to the ice cream parlor. No paper, or pictures, or magazines. No fancy hair gel or take-and-bake pizza. Lattes? Nope. Nothing except what it takes to live.”

Why do this?
“The goal of this month-long fast is to break the grip of materialism in our hearts and minds. We want to live in gratitude, not discontent; and we want to live with awareness of the great responsibility our affluence has laid on our shoulders.”

Not only is this a gratitude/simplicity exercise, it is a social one as well. In this post Tonia exposes some of the huge gaps between how well the western world lives compared to most everyone else.

Click on over to Tonia’s site
If this sounds intriguing check it out. Starting September 1, I’ll be part of 30 Days of Nothing! Let me know if you are doing nothing too so we can share our experiences.