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Many people have drawn attention to Holiday consumerism. Click any video to play.
Three Kids Reflect on Christmas in America
Sarah Christmas-Tinkelman Not sure who is running this page, but please add this to your links. This book changed my holiday experience, though I still struggle.
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Hundred Dollar Holiday: The Case For A More Joyful Christmas, by Bill McKibben
Jane White absolutely
Amber Spread knowledge and understanding! Not hate and fear! This should not be about "Boycotting Christmas", but about spreading love!! Homemade gifts, learning about different Yule time traditions around the world, this time of year is about family and friends!! Celebrate however you like as long as it makes you happy!
Meg
• Fed up with Christmas songs booming at you from everywhere? • Fed up with Christmas themed crap about snow and reindeer and sitting by the fire inside - when its in fact stinking hot outside, not a...
Buy Nothing Christmas Just get a different credit card - that will solve your interest problems.
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But a Moneysupermarket.com survey claims two-thirds of us will not have enough cash for all the presents and partying and will turn to credit cards instead.
Becky
I wouldnt say Im boycotting Christmas altogether. I love Christmas. I just hate how it has become so overcome by consumerism. At any rate, this year we decided to make our own gifts. For the girls in my family I will be making home made candles, by melting the wax into pretty china tea cups. I will also be making cust...omized stationary. Im also thinking about a jar full of home made cookies, with a mini recipe book with all of the cookie recipes in them, or home made lip balm, or monogrammed tea towels. For the men, I will be making delicious flavoured popcorn, and putting it in a nice tin, and also a home made notepad. For the kids, I'll do candy, finger puppets, and for my daughter Im going to a thrift store, and filling a trunk full of costumes. Hats, jewelry, shoes, dresses etc. Every year I make my own decoartions. two years ago i decorated my tree with paper snowflakes, and bows. Last year I made sparkly starched string balls, and this year...well..who knows.Read More
Cat I give plenty of gifts during Yuletide- but none that I buy. Friends and family get a lot of homemade baked goods, knitted items (some from yarn I spun myself with wool from a friend's farm), or honey and beeswax candles from our own beehives. Everyone has some skill or talent that they can share with others, either to give as gifts or to trade with someone who has more "holiday-like" skills.
Penny Glencross We have been doing this for several years. We(all members of the extended family) support a single mom family through the YWCA and then give gifts to each other through Plan International such as pigs, goats, school books etc. Never even go near a store.
Linnch Sestro i support the idea . i would add more holidays to the list :)
Adarsha way hey... great idea!!!
Deborah Trask
I don't buy gifts on any holiday because I'm good to my friends and family all year round. No birthday gifts, no Xmas gifts... zippo.
All year round I surprise my loved ones with heart-felt gifts that mean something to them and myself : )
Frankie boycott bday prezzies and all!!!!
Maureen Sutton Or give someone a blueberry bush and a packet of kale seed.
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Boxes of red velvet Santas and "real feel" pre-lit Christmas trees line the aisles at the Costco in Scarborough – right next to the barbecues left over from an unseasonably cool and economically challenging summer.
