It is the brainchild of my 19 old son ...a Facebook group called
He writes:
Okay, I had this idea. I think that Christmas has become excessively materialistic. But, what if we don't buy any presents this year? What if all our gifts are homemade and second hand? What if the only gifts we will receive are homemade? Let's not buy anything more than usual this Christmas, and see it as a holiday to spend time with family.
Okay, I had this idea. I think that Christmas has become excessively materialistic. But, what if we don't buy any presents this year? What if all our gifts are homemade and second hand? What if the only gifts we will receive are homemade? Let's not buy anything more than usual this Christmas, and see it as a holiday to spend time with family.
I have hand-crafted some Christmas gifts for many years.
This year, however, I am going to try to exclusively participate in the
Don't-Buy-Junk-You-Don't-Need-Or-Receive-Useless-Junk-Christmas
Don't-Buy-Junk-You-Don't-Need-Or-Receive-Useless-Junk-Christmas
by creating handmade gifts and buying from garage sales, ReUse Centre and 2nd hand stores.
I will make one exception shopping in the ethnic food aisle of my grocery store
to find a few goodies for the ever-hungry college students on my list!
to find a few goodies for the ever-hungry college students on my list!
So I will simplify ~ use my creative DIM (Do it Myself) skills andsave a few bucks at the same time.
This should be fun!
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