Vote with your wallet.

How do you vote with your wallet?

How do you vote with your wallet?

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ralph

I buy organic, nutritious, and sustainable food!

jon

Second hand, grow your own, herbal medicines, what a hypocrite as here I am now...

selfish

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sdfdsf

i've been evading the IRS for 26 years, and i do all my business under the table or by bartering.

0

By buying the products and SERVICES which I USE, instead of those which are FORCED upon me by gunpoint.

Paul

I try not to use money as much as I can. I am building a hydrogen/gas system for my car to use less gas... ummm... I hug trees? haha. I try to trade as often as I can rather then using money when I buy from individuals. My friends and I just trade books and share things. I try to buy locally.... I shop at goodwill alot but thats because I am 21 and pretty broke. I love you. Did I mention I hug trees?

anthony

I buy handmade art, made around the world and sold fair-trade in a locally owned and operated store.

Oreus

cash for clunkers

luis

I prefer to buy locally, from flea markets and small businesses when I can. I do shop at the chains due to cost/convenience, but then I try to find produce that is supplied locally and other items labelled "Made in USA".

Peggy

I look for "Made in USA" label on everything I buy, and try to buy as local as possible. It's really is still possible to find items made in our country, but it won't be for long, if we keep up the current trend. Buy only "Made in USA" unless absolutely impossible. I even searched different stores for a garden hose nozzle, and found one in ACE Hardware, made in USA! A small purchase, but if we'd all do this, it'd add up, and result in more jobs to stimulate our economy and encourage manufacturing in the United States. (And, the nozzle was no more expensive than the hoards of "made in China" nozzles in a nearby store.)

Periwinkle

I only buy clothes, food, and cosmetics that do not contain animal derived ingredients and were not tested on animals. It\'s all about supply & demand and here in the 21st century it is/should be very clear that we do not need to continue to slaughter non-human animals by the billions. http://www.veganoutreach.org/guide/free_guide.html

Beau

Speaking of gasoline, I have not bought from Exxon and later from Mobil since the Valdez incident. I will never forget all those murdered animals.

BA

I buy whole wheat bread. I don't buy things with refined sugar or flour (okay, I eat some dried fruit with sucrose once or twice a week, in small amounts). I buy agave nectar for sweetener, which has a low glycemic index (doesn't cause one's blood sugar to rise and drop sharply). I buy organic green tea bags (tastes much better!).

trobaon

Great site! More Americans need to understand that in a free market economy we essentially have the opportunity to vote every day. Some examples of how I vote with my wallet are buying gas only from Shell and vehicles only from Ford. When oil exectutives were called before congress to testify in 2008, Shell was the only company bold enough to point out the government's role in high gas prices. I have always supported Ford Motor Company, but when they became the only American auto maker to turn down a government bailout my respect went to a new level.

SL

I actually found your site while trying to purchase the domain name votewithyourwallet.org. I commend everyone for "spending" their convictions. The problem I see is that everyone has different convictions and people are all over the place trying to make an impact. My desire is to create a platform for a grass roots movement very much along the lines of what your are doing except focused on one particular company - General Motors. I personally will not purchase any GM or Chrysler product as long as taxpayer money is being used to fund them or purchase stock in them. My idea would be to force Washington to divest itself of its stake in GM by selling it off to private investors. This would be acomplished by getting enough people to not buy GM products that the company, under government control, could never be viable. Not that it's viable now, but the goal would be to drive it even further into the ground and force the issue with Congress. I believe that beginning with GM would be most effective since consumers are familiar with the products and buy them directly. Targeting banks or AIG would be a lot harder to pull off. This endeavor would take some money, some people with good organizational skills, PR experience, etc. If successful, this same tactic of selectively targeting certain government controlled businesses could be used again and again until Uncle Sam is driven out of the private sector once and for all. I look forward to your feedback

Dan Bilezikian

I do the opposite of BuyBlue.org

Nick

There are so many liberal points of view in the media. That's why I stopped watching Sports Center, or PMS-NBC for that matter. Look….there’s only one way to impact these networks and the anti-conservative messages they promote….VOTE WITH YOU’RE WALLET!!! I don't buy products from known anti-conservative companies, or…if a liberal celebrity endorses it. I don’t watch movies or TV or buy music that with liberal stars or lyrics or anti-conservative messages. Of course that leaves fewer alternatives, but they are there. FoxNews and FoxNation are prime examples of where I invest my time and money. REMEMBER….Conservative alternatives will not grow and flourish if Conservatives don’t support them, because you know (or should if you don’t) that conservatives are shunned in Hollywood and NYC. They are already playing this game….so Conservatives….VOTE WITH YOU’RE WALLET!!!

JohnE_TX

You vote with your wallet by knowing how you purchases are being made and how the people making them are being treated. You should also know where the money you spend is going(ex. is it being used to fund a war? or to stop a war? or just nothing at all?) these are things that you must know in order to vote with your wallet.

brittany

I don't watch Entertainment Tonight.

Steve

I love to buy local IF my local store offers something unique or provides a service the big box does not. Sometimes this is the case and I am happy. If your only virtue is that you are a local small business that is not good enough.

not "the man"

second-hand!

s

LOCAL! CSA! Made in the USA! Humane! Organic! Handmade/homemade!

steph

When it comes to bananas, chocolate or coffee, I only buy fair trade. I can´t afford to buy organically grown produce regularly but I do so whenever I`ve got the money. I boycott brands that treat their employees badly or don´t pay minimum wage at least. My clothes come from the american apparel store who doesn´t support sweatshops.

Sophie

I support local business

Kizamu

I don't frequent McDonalds.

Steve Dawson

I don't buy meat or conventionally raised vegetables, if at all possible.

Stephanie Anagnoson

I don't buy meat.

Alex

I've never set foot in a Walmart. My kids have never set food in a McDonald's or any other fast food emporium. We get basic cable only (for Jon Stewart and PBS), no HBO (big Republican donor.) Netflix rules! No advertising, ever (we record anything we watch in advance). I get lots of stuff used through eBay -- especially great great for kids clothes and toys. We grocery shop once a week, from a list -- no impulse buys. No debt. No commercial "feminine products." Sea sponges, Moon pads, and Diva cups are great! Local produce, meat and eggs whenever possible -- it costs more, but the money goes to neighbors. (Besides, I get my kids clothes used!) We roast and grind our own fair trade coffee and make our own cappuccinos with a stovetop espresso maker and steamer. No soft drinks. We make our own ginger ale and buy locally brewed root beer (no corn syrup, no preservative) for a once a week treat. Shampoo, toothpaste, face cream, soap, laundry detergent -- we read labels and don't buy anything with chemical preservatives and harsh or carcinogenic ingredients. Once you start playing the "Vote with your Dollars" game, it's amazing how many choices you have, and how empowering it is to make them every day.

Ideasinca

Stop looking at sales flyers - I find that if you don't even look at them, you buy way less. They create need - when you see something on sale, you think you need it NOW, just because it's on sale, but if you'd never seen that it's on sale, you would probably never have bought it (or needed it) at all. Sales flyers are voluminously distributed for a good reason - they work.

shlala

My cell phone "contract" is about up. I'm going month to month afterwards. If things get dicy, I turn it off.

Farmer Chuck

i unplugged cabled tv services

erik the red

Buy used such as yard sales, thrift, etc.. Don't borrow money. Pay off your home asap! Make a payment every 2 wks instead of monthly. "Use it up, wear it out!" Buy local or USA made instead of supporting China, etc... If you want something, wait a few wks and see if you still want or need an item such as non-essentials.

Coletta

If I can't pay cash for it, I don't buy it...

Larry

Give up TV. It's indirect, but you recede from a whole world of passive, manufactured desire.

Roy Batty

if it ain,t on sale don,t buy it !

rocketwdl

I don't subscribe to cable TV. Until I'm able to purchase channels à la carte, I'm loathe to underwrite the 100+ channels of absolutely worthless crap that monolithic cable plans subsidize. Pity, because The Daily Show is funny, and everyone should have access to C-Span. Then again, I also tend to think of cable companies as anti-competitive monopolists whose Internet services I'd never trust with my personally-identifiable packets, so perhaps I'll just never subscribe to cable. Oh well.

c

It's far from radical, but when presented with two products, one of which is made locally and another from farther afield, I choose to buy the more local of the two. It's a vote for regional farming and enterprise, and a vote against the environmental costs of shipping products in from far-away places. Don't buy Taiwanese Veat^®!

c

I buy all my gas from Chevron. It's not that they're awesomely green or without sin (though they'd certainly like you to thinks so) -- show me a petrochemical manufacturer that is... please -- but their gas is good, and I'm a shareholder, so it's pretty much bare-faced self-interest that drives this particular monetary vote.

c