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I always get annoyed at our focus on holidays as seasons go by, so I thought I’d jump the gun and start talking about Christmas before anybody else!

I’ll leave black Friday alone, and ask that we all take a look at Christmas. We live in a very consumeristic culture, and we live on a “everybody else is doing it” mentality. Christmas is a prime example of this.
I’d like for you to think long and hard about the simple possiblity that Buying Nothing on the holidays this year might be an incredibly wise thing for you to do.

That’s all for now, I’ll leave you with a short little video interview talking about buy nothing Christmas.

Picked this up from a church’s booth at the AIDS walk. Any thoughts?

my new best friend and favorite website. I read a lot of informational blogs, and most of them I find about one in 8 or less of the articles worth looking further into. When I read through lifehacker I seem to open a new tab for every post!

This probably says more about my interest then anything else, but I say it’s worth a look around.

So, I don’t have my very own cellphone, but my wife recently got one. We’ve been trying to keep good track of her minutes so we don’t get charged tons of extra money. During this careful attention to minutes I realized something.

You know all those automated instructions that nearly everyone has on their voice mail, “To leave a message press “1″…” My thought is that the phone companies do that so that it takes over one minute to leave a message. They double your minutes usage right there!

Besides the fact that rarely does anyone do anything besides leave a message, those who want to do the other things usually know how to.

So, To all my friends and family, take a minute this weekend and go through the complicated admin menus on your phone and figure out how to take off the instructions on your voicemail message. We have sprint and it wasn’t too hard.

That’s my two cents.

And do me a favor and post what cell phone company you use and what steps you took to get rid of that annoying message.

This podcast I brought a guest speaker in, Nate Manaen, all the way from Las Vegas (He joins us in the study, from inside my cellphone). The topic being discussed was originally brought about by some post Nate put on his Xanga a week ago. You can read his two post and some of the comments here: post 1, post 2.

Here is the podcast.

Please post your comments and thoughts below or on my xanga or Nate’s.

p.s. If your an audio junky, get the quality downloads here.