Green Monday?

[freshstart]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Monday

I have never heard of this until waking to an inbox full of Green Monday emails (all deleted, pats self on back). Really, do we need this? I hope consumers ignore this and it goes away. Everything has been on sale since BF, are these sales that much better? Doubt it.

[rosarugosa]

Freshstart: I never heard of Green Monday, but I did receive an e-mail today with this subject line, "Your Final Wish. (Hint: Includes Cashmere)" All I could think of was a deathbed wish for a shroud made of cashmere. Who comes up with this stuff? :~)

[Chicken lady]

Sounds like it should be a day to stay home, eat vegan, cut some local green stuff to adorn your home and make Christmas gifts and decorations out of reused/recycled materials. Or come up with some non stuff gifts!

[freshstart]

when I first heard it, I did think it meant something environmental that we would all do on a certain day- like maybe no Christmas lights on Green Monday. Then I realized they're talking about a different kind of green, the kind in your wallet. I could've gotten behind an environmental Green Monday.

Since the day is half over and my dad is ensconced in tv watching, it's too late to implement this, but I'm going to ask that next year on Green Monday, we pull the plug on tv and electronics and read around the fire and maybe have some sort of vegan meal. My father will agree until he hears "vegan meal" and I will explain that homemade mac-n-cheese counts as vegan, don't panic yet and promise no lima beans, lol.

[rodeosweetheart]

It sounded environmental to me, too. I don't think this one is going to catch on, because no one associates excessive shopping with "green" initiatives.

[Chicken lady]

Um, what are you using for the cheese part?

[freshstart]

cheese, seriously he won't do vegan. My son is vegan and made us a lovely meal. For the first time ever, my father did not clean his plate and I saw a ton snuck to the dogs. Luckily, DS did not catch this, his feelings would've been very hurt. The food was very good and if no one had told my dad it was vegan, he probably would've enjoyed it. Stubborn is his middle name. I bought Almond milk and he freaked out, it's like the hoarding, it is easier to be silent and play along.

[ApatheticNoMore]

I would associate it with both environmentalism and shopping, like small business Saturday or whatever it is (I don't really do it). So go out and buy ... I don't know what, green cleaning products? a solar charger for your cell phone? fair trade shade grown coffee? Staying home sounds good though, I'd gladly call in "sick", but I haven't even any more sick days to use and am probably using the last of my vacation days end of the year.

[SteveinMN]

Green Monday sounded like an excuse to me, as if Black Friday and Cyber Monday were not up to retail expectations. I took a pass...

[rodeosweetheart]

Isn't this Tuesday? I just got an email telling me it's not too late to order something for Green Monday, which is a completely bogus day anyway.b b

[Mary B.]

What's Green Monday? We don't have it yet (I'm in Canada) and since we didn't have Black Friday either until a few years ago I want to brace for impact.

Our latest advertising received today was a flyer for "pre Boxing Week sales." I think it's only a matter of time before Canadian retailers rename Christmas "Boxing Day Eve." (Boxing Day is the 26th of December and is kind of like a tamer version of Black Friday.)

[Williamsmith]

According to Forbes, it's the second Monday of December for online internet shoppers who want to take advantage of discounts that are even better than Black Friday or Cyber Monday. Online stores like Walmart.com entice late holiday shoppers to order via electronic devices merchandise they might want for the holidays. So if you have a mobile phone that surfs the Internet.....you can buy more stuff on the run......whoopie!! Gives shop til you drop a new meaning.

[kib]

I've never heard of Green Monday either, and as far as I know, neither has my inbox. Yet another thing to be irritated over, they've taken the buzz word for environmental awareness, weak and overused as it may be, and stolen it to champion buying more new quasi-disposable (e.g. environmentally catastrophic) shit? Wonderful.