who has the longest personal boycott going??

[Blue_Tires]

i bought my last Nike item (college shirt) in early 1998. My last Nike shoes were bought (by my mom) in 1995. So since 1993 (and i was an anti-nike advocate even before then), i've only had two nike items...lets hear some others??

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. Longest what? n/t

[Dukakis88]

2. I'm boycotting sex with lipstick lesbians...

They keep approaching me in groups for wild threesomes, but I'm all like, "I'm saving myself for marriage, baby."

[Blue_Tires]

26. yes, but was it for political reasons??

:D

[TomClash]

28. You have great willpower n/t

[da_chimperor]

3. I've had a pretty successful boycott of McDonalds

It's not really so much of a boycott as me avoiding eating there whenever possible because I think the food is crap. I've eaten there maybe 5 times in as many years.

[Atman]

17. I stopped eating McDonalds when I stopped drinking

I still don't know which one was making me puke more.

[VivaKerry]

4. Dominos Pizza... since oh about the late 80s

When the owner was getting real gung ho against abortion and giving money to any candidate who wanted to overturn roe v. wade.

Everytime I eat pizza, I think, a few less bucks for dominos.

[Webster Green]

14. Domino's pizza sucks too!

You did yourself a favor. That shit is the worst.

[VivaKerry]

57. My homemade pizza is the BEST.

And I NEVER give money to the anti-choice wingnutz. LOL

[Tesibria]

23. Yep -- mine's dominos pizza - since at least late 80s

..when i found out that they were rabid anti-choice - i was in Texas until 93 -- and I know it happened before I went to law school - so had to be 88 or 89

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[VivaKerry]

54. Yep, the word got out to me about that time.

Interesting, a lifetime boycott. Whoever told us sure did a good deed!

I was eating a dominos pizza, had been munching on them all through college, and a friend told me all about dominos. I choked!

[pantouflard]

5. Microsoft...

Haven't personally used any MS product since about 1994. Can't stand that company.

[BrotherBuzz]

6. SNAPPLE...I heard that product advertised on Rush...

in the late eightes and have not touched it since.

[Atman]

11. Me too!

No Snapple because of Rush...should have added that to my Exxon/Mobil post.

[Guy Fawkes]

7. Boycotting the music industry since 1997 (or thereabouts)

[Blue_Tires]

29. that's a good one

i haven't bought any music in about as long

[Digit]

8. McDonalds

Haven't eaten there since late 60's when I found a bug on my burger.
When I took it inside to show it to them, they laughed and said at least I did not find half a bug.
I raised my daughter so she does not like McDonalds either.
Guess they ticked me off, huh.

[Atman]

9. I haven't used an Exxon/Mobil product since Valdez

Well, actually, I had to add Mobil to the list when they merged.

[Webster Green]

10. Exxon since 1974

I was driving cross country trucks during the "gas crunch". I kept seeing the brightly lit Exxon signs, and pulling off the Interstates to re-fuel, only to find the service stations brightly lit as well....and closed. I vowed I would never buy Exxon products again, and I haven't.

[Nicole]

12. boycotting Wal-mart

for 10- 15 years. Whenever it was that Kathy Lee Gifford's sweat shop story broke.

[Tikki]

38. Not so much a boycott...

more like a SHUN. I have never even considered stepping into a Wal-Mart.

[NMDemDist2]

13. i have never owned Nike, haven't shopped at walmart since 1999

never bought a Ford since my grammy gave me a '71 Maverick in '77 (any company that brought you the Pinto, the Bronco and the Crown Victoria gets nothing from me), never shopped at Old Navy/The Gap and have boycotted Albertson's Grocery Stores since they pissed me off in 1994

[Dastard Stepchild]

15. My mother - Sears since 1986

When we moved from Wisconsin to Illinois, they changed the rate on her Sears card from the WI rate to the IL rate, and this increased the amount she owed by $150 bucks. She's never shopped there since.

[AVESGA]

16. 20 years

Lived in a rightwing midwestern city for 6 months in 1984. Surrounded by wackos at every turn. Hated it. Vowed I'd never buy any product of companies based there, not wanting to contribute to their economy. Hint: very hard to keep your body or your home clean without using their products, but I have.

[GoBlue]

18. General Motors since 1982 Exxon since 1989

eom

[Mr.Green93]

19. over forty-five years

no liver or liver products.

[ET Awful]

20. I haven't ever brought a Mitsubishi product, and have intentionally

not bought one for over 20 years. If I'm not mistaken, I quit buying their products because they were one of the major culprits in rainforest deforestation and destruction. Of course after 20 years, I've forgotten WHY I originally boycotted them and just do it out of habit now :)

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

21. I am, by any delimiter, poor.

Don't ask how much I make. It is horrifying. It has been this way for a long time. So, in truth, I have been on a boycott, imposed by circumstances.

I have a little news for you: In most cases, you don't need it. You WANT it.

Get the corporations out of your head. You will be amazed how many things you think you need, you don't. You just want them. Just like a kid.

Get off the hamster wheel.

[miss_kitty]

49. Tandalayo_Scheisskopf-we must be rowing the same boat

not only by following our shining example will people have more money saved, it'll make it hard on the chimp and co.

I too am poor, and it's ok.

[TahitiNut]

59. I think the world might be a better place ...

... if everyone tried very hard to live as close to the minimum wage as they could.

Recyclable, renewable, durable goods ... spend on education, foreign travel, 'bootstrap' charities, etc.

[Jack Schitt]

22. McDonald's and Nike.

I haven't had McD's in a couple years and I have never bought Nike crap.

[CrispyQ]

24. Loreal since 1986. eom

[billyoc]

25. Aw, shit! I just realized I'm still boycotting

South African lobsters. :(

[chaska]

27. Not sure, but I think I can beat that...

Pizza Hut used Rush Limpnuts in their radio ads back sometime in the past. Still haven't eaten there.

[nini]

30. my family hasn't bought Union 76 gas since 1949

My dad went on strike in '49 and it never settled - all the strikers lost their jobs.

I have NEVER bought gas from them because of the strike. I will drive miles out of my way till this day because of this.

[Blue_Tires]

34. i guess you've got the early lead so far

WOW!!!

[nini]

36. don't mess with my family

:P


we never forget.

[skygazer]

43. Are you Sicilian?

[zeemike]

31. Sense 1980

I have boycotted new cars
i bought a 1980 VW Rabbit with a diesel engine that got 50 miles to the gallon and I drove it over 250,000 miles. and in that time cars with good gas mileage just disappeared off the market. So I said screw them I will drive only used cars. .

[qnr]

32. Never considered it a "boycott", but I bought my last Microsoft product

in 1982 (directly) - I have bought computers since then that had Microsoft products on them, but they were gone within 30 minutes of being powered on.

[politicat]

33. Dominos, McDonalds, Yum Brands, Non Fair trade coffee, and RJReynolds

1993, 1993, 1994, 1995 and 1996 respectively.

Of course, I can't remember why I'm boycotting yum Brands (KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and A&W) and would appreciate if someone would tell me...

Walmart Boycott started in 1998, but was interrupted for a year because the Evil Empire was the only store within 30 miles.

Pcat

[miss_kitty]

52. YUM! Brands purchases tomatoes from suppliers who

enslave undocumented workers. KFC denies and ignores PETA's documented cruelty to the chickens in several of their plants

http://www.kentuckyfriedcruelty.com/

http://www.ciw-online.org/tz_site-revision/home/home.html

They are The Man.

[politicat]

64. okay.... but there was another reason I started the boycott.

Oh well.

Might as well continue it.

Not that we do much in the way of fast food - there's a locally owned, locally operated chain that supports the natural beef industry (and since I live in an area that should NEVER, EVER, EVER have been put to the plow, grazers are far better for the land) and they get our rare business.

Of course, no one gets our business for the next four years. Every dime we can hold on to is staying in our hot little hands.

Pcat

[miss_kitty]

71. Pizza Hut advertises on limbaugh?

I just did a tiny mid term on YUM! and those were the 2 things I found...if you remember what else, let me know!

[Ellen Forradalom]

35. Artificial sweetners since 1986

Diet sodas started giving me frightening headaches. I swore off aspartame, ditched saccharine while I was at it and have never tried Splenda.

[bikebloke]

37. MacPoison's since the mid-80's

Dominos Pizza since the late 80's.

And I've never ever been inside a Wal-Mart.

[burrowowl]

39. McDonalds

at least early 80's

[Tangledog]

40. Nestle since, I dunno,

Maybe 20 years now. I think I've bought stuff since then not knowing that Nestle had purchased the company, but I don't knowingly, or willingly, buy anything from them.

I read something about their predatory marketing practices in South America that made a big impression on me.

[greendog]

41. Coors...

.....since '82.

[meganmonkey]

42. Went into a Wal-Mart once in 1993 but never bought anything

I went to college in a small midwestern town with a lot of downtown stores. Summer before my sophomore year they built a WalMart and by the time I graduated half the downtown stores were closed. At the time, I didn't think of it as a boycott, just knew it was a bad, bad place.
Fair Trade coffee (almost)exclusively since about 1997-ish.

I buy my clothes secondhand or at TJMaxx (practically secondhand - I doubt more than a penny of my money makes it to the manufacturer. I just don't know who to trust anymore for clothes. Occasionally I'll buy fair trade import clothes or American Girl brand stuff (made in USA No sweatshops).

[SarahB]

44. The Nestle one has been around awhile.

http://www.babymilkaction.org/

[jdots]

45. i have boycotted Bose since 1970

Sony since 1976 most clothing companys since the early 80s
i boycott almost everything and you can see what good it's done.....get about 10-50 million people and it works wonders.

[RummyTheDummy]

46. American cars

Because they're crap.

[miss_kitty]

47. lessee

MacDonalds-forever. Never ate there

The Gap-Since 1992 See sweatshop watch.org

Nordstrom-Since 30 January 1990, my last day of employment there.

Boca Burgers-Since 2000, when they were purchased by Kraft, which WAS owned by RJR Tobacco, but sold to Philip Morris

Kraft and Nabisco-Unknown years. Probably the same time I quit cigarettes. owned by RJR, now Philip Morris

Cigarettes-26 February 1998

Nike-1991 (?) Only owned one pair

KFC, Taco Bell-Unknown. I am a Vegetarian, but now will actively encourage people to stay away due to cruelty to animal issues and the poor treatment (enslavement) of undocumented farm workers. The same corporation owns Long John Silvers, A&W and Pizza Hut. All are on my fecal roster.

Any goods I can determine were made under sweatshop conditions

WalMart-Never been there

Now I'm sure I will think of others once I hit enter-but I can't think of anything else right now. :shrug:

On Edit: Dominos since the 80s, Nestles since the 70s and Welch's candy since the 60s-BTW I believe I have the longest boycott going-especially when you get the cumulative effect.

[JimmyJazz]

48. So I assume you grow all your own vegetables and

have a loom in your living room? :P

:hi:

on edit: sorry, couldn't resist!

[miss_kitty]

55. Smart arse!

why, yes, I do. the next 6 months is all beets, carrots turnips parsnips and chard, and some potataoes.

Yum!

:hi:

[JimmyJazz]

61. Yes, but will you weave some clothing for me? And, what's

that other stuff I see growing in your yard? :P

[miss_kitty]

62. supplies for

my Moroccan cab driving pals!:P

[Gothic Sponge]

50. Meat

Vegetarian since 1987

[TahitiNut]

51. Volvo since 1978, Exxon since Valdez, WalMart/Sams since forever

[democracyindanger]

58. Volvo?

[TahitiNut]

63. I had a Volvo 244 in 1976 that got 7-10mpg

It was a 4-cylinder lemon (faulty injectors, it was believed) I bought new. Volvo of America refused to correct the problem -- in effect telling me to go piss up a rope. (The actually said that although they knew it was probably faulty injectors, they didn't feel obligated to fix it since they didn't warrant or advertise gasoline mileage.)

No air conditioning, heavy loads, or lead-foot driving. We're talking level highways at 45-55mph on firm tires with windows closed.

Remember the "gasoline crises" of the 70's? I was looking for puddles on the driveway. I could actually see the gas guage moving towards empty while I was driving.

[democracyindanger]

66. Ah. I thought it was political.

I can continue to feel good about being a literal Volvo-drivin', latte-drinkin' liberal then, :P

[TahitiNut]

69. It *IS* political. They refused to correct a faulty product.

Fuck 'em.

[TahitiNut]

68. Oh ... and United Airlines since 1980.

They screwed up (major errors) ten of the last eleven flights I took with them, so I laid down the law with corporate travel: No United Airlines or I Would Refuse to Travel. (They let me have my way.)

[BigMcLargehuge]

53. I've NEVER had a Nike item

so I win

:P

[TahitiNut]

65. Me neither. It's a tie. I buy New Balance.

[BigMcLargehuge]

73. I buy.. uh... (looks at feet)....

I dunno... they came from Payless or something...

[henslee]

56. boycotting my favorite pizzza because they always find a way to touch

my slice with their hands after they handled money. It's my pet peeve. Monied hands on food. And believe me, this is may favorite pizza in the world.

[LynneSin]

60. I haven't had Pizza Hut pizza since OxyRush was spokesperson

sometime back in 1993.

I've had dominos pizza, but only if someone else bought it and it's never recommended by me

[miss_kitty]

74. They are also owned by a company which supports

the mistreatment of farmworkers for Taco Bell Tomatoes, and Cruelty to animals by suppliers for KFC, and A&W and Long John Silvers, in case you'd like to boycott all of them... :)

[Politicub]

67. Coors beer

Since 1994 I think. Heard about all of their anti-gay activities, though they advertised heavily to the gay community. I know I'm not missing anything, though lol

[CanuckAmok]

70. I've been boycotting non-scribe-union papayrus since 2350 B.C. Beat that!

n/t

[SmileyBoy]

72. I've been boycotting Wal-Mart for 39 months now.

Though I don't think it's the longest.