Black Saturday

I totally stumbled across an interesting group of money saving folks on a mission called "The Compact." Apparently they are a local group that began in 2005 and became very popular across the world because of their vow to not buy anything brand new for a whole year. Their vantage point was to not fall into a wasteful consumerism cycle and keep buying new junk, but I think its also great from a money saving viewpoint as well. The rules are necessary items such as food and personal safety and hygene are exempted and everything else must be aquired at a second hand retailer or through a private party, and yes it all has to be preowned stuff.

Heck, that's pretty much what I do anyhow so I coulda been in this group like ten years before it even started!

They got a Yahoo group so join if you are interested!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thecompact

Here's some more info on them:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/12/27/BAGRON6E431.DTL
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/17/AR2006121701122_pf.html