However, the consumption of holidays is obviously much higher than consumption usually. In other words, holidays alter spending habits and level of consumerism around the holidays. .
Despite of the price-off promotion retailers make during holidays, some culture ask us to buy the goods which we need and can only bought during the holiday can also increase consumption on holidays. We should buy artificial Christmas trees, Christmas lights, ornaments and tree toppers during winter break to prepare Christmas in United States. And Chinese people also must to buy lanterns, Spring Festival couplets and firecrackers before the Spring Festival. These goods are necessary for our holidays and culture, but who will buy these things on ordinary days? Because of the culture, consumers alter spending habits and level of consumerism around holidays. People buy thousands of goods and services on Black Friday, on the contrary, Buy Nothing Day is concurrent to Black Friday but is an international day of protest against consumerism. Buy Nothing Day was organized as a day for society to examine the issue of over-consumption. Participants would like use various activities like free, non-commercial street parties, or silently steer their shopping carts around a shopping mall or store in a long, baffling conga line without putting anything in the carts or actually making any purchases to draw attention to the problem of over-consumption. But like Livingston said, "Happy holidays. Get to the mall and knock yourself out". (Livingston, 155) People should not be convinced that consumer culture is bad for the environment, bad for the economy, and bad for their souls. Consumer should enjoy their holidays by buying goods and services around the holidays. Consumer culture is good for the economy, the environment and our soul because consumers' purchasing decisions help fuel the food revolution and consumer spending contribute to aggregate demand in history.