and to deplete and pollute the natural resources that were gifts to us. It may be too late to save our earth for future generations, but that has nothing to do with doing the right thing. Doing the right thing means doing what is the best for all involved, with the emphasis on the big picture, our home,...because it's the right thing to do, not just if we get a certain outcome.
This year our family is going to create the greenEST Christmas possible. Gifts can be anything except new. No products new, but made with recycled products....only second hand, gently used, pre-loved, antique, salvaged, (I would add re-purposed, but since purpose isn't a verb, I'm not gonna),.... Gifts can be services (massages etc.), experiences (concerts, events), found objects (sea shells,), edibles or home-grown living garden gifts.
The gifts can be something we create from second hand things or just an item bought from a consignment store, garage sale, antique store, side of the road or found at home. Gifts just have to be already existing. Regifting works too. I can't wait to see the creative gifts we all come up with as well as the creative wrappings we scrounge up (forgot to mention that to the fam!).
This is just one small way we can help comfort our damaged earth, make the lightest, smallest footprint and enjoy a Christmas as part of the solution instead of adding to the problem.
Some traditions, while heartfelt, aren't really all that warm and fuzzy when we take into consideration the cost to the earth and it's resources. There are so many much more worthwhile things that our money can buy, like clean drinking water for people who have none and food for starving humans all over the world.
Now, THAT's what I call WORTHWHILE CHRISTMAS SHOPPING. HOW MERRY!!!
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