Something more sustainable than Buy Nothing Day

Am I the only one with an ambivalent attitude to the Buy Nothing Day on 25th November 2009 in UK?
My intention is to do my shopping tonight (i.e the night before), so that I still have food to share at a training event tomorrow, but if I don't make it to the shops tonight, the sharing would be more important than the not-buying tomorrow.
I intend to start 'buy nothing day' tomorrow by adding 50 items (probably CDs and/or tools) to the most local (and flexible) library I know -freelender.org, so that there are some ways in which others can be supported to save money and share more.
In terms of the big picture, the imperative of our time is to consume less and to share more.By doing this I am confident that we will improve our quality if living. There's quite possibly no other way.Consuming less doesn't close down all businesses; only the wasteful ones.
I tweet about once a week about the vocation involved in finding a sharing response to the interesting times in which we live -try following this occasional twitter-stream.

FL comment on Government Watchdog calling for 20% of household purchasing to be replaced by hiring (i.e. £148 billion a year)

I added beneath the Times Story on-line : Stop shopping, rent your wardrobe and save the world, the following comment:

I'd like to offer a range of places that people can go to start renting and hiring out their stuff -and also doing it for free if that way works better for people in their neighbourhoods. Many links to further information are provided at freelender.org.
(The work of Freelending Community Interest Company, of which I'm a director, is partly to bring coherence to what are presently a range of ideas requiring more pioneers sharing their learning about how to shift from consumerism to sharing.)

Today's letter to LetsAllShare.com

Dear Stas

We have been working in the area of web-based sharing for more than two years now, and have established the Freelending Community Interest Company and developed a wide range of freemium models for sharing.
We heard of your site through the Guardian Freegle story and read about you on the web. We enjoyed filling in your on-line survey, and noting how similar it was to the questions we asked in our detailed market research.
LetsAllShare appears to us to be a very well-thought through site.

We value collaboration and seek it out, where it works to everyone's advantage. We'd like some open discussions about what possibilities there are for co-existing in this field of work in a mutually beneficial way. Amongst our activites so far, we have already formed a partnership with another UK lending site which has over 10,000 users. The live site that we will shortly take to the next level is at www.freelender.org.

We suggest a meeting in December (which may or may not still be your intended re-launch month); the best days for us are Monday 14th pm or Wednesday 16th am; and we'd be happy to come to see you in Wimbledon.
Wishing you all the best with your re-launch plans,
yours sincerely,


Paul Crosland & Edmund Johnson
(Directors, Freelending CIC)