No Shopping Day

As we were saying the other day, time flies. We were sunbathing on the beach a couple of weeks ago and now Christmas is just round the corner. And what is Christmas about? Shopping, of course. In order to make people aware that we live in a consumer society and that you don't actually need half of what you buy, Buy nothing day is celebrated every Nov. 20th.

• WATCH the 2010 video , which was very interesting.

'Buy nothing day' tries to counterbalance the craze of Black Friday, the day that signals the start of the shopping season in the USA, and that can be as dangerous as this.

Or you may be lucky and find a cash machine that gives you free money...

ATM Machine Malfunctions and Gives Double the Money

KEY WORDS
Waiting in line/ Twice the amount of money/ someone twitted/ shut down the machine/ apologize for the inconvenience

So before you fall into the Christmas shopping frenzy (in spite of the crisis) think that you can concentrate on learning English -it's safer, it's free,  and you can even save money!