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Many people have drawn attention to Holiday consumerism. Click any video to play.
Three Kids Reflect on Christmas in America
Barbara Sue Brister Gorter Donate to your local food bank or shelter. Keep the reason for the season.
Johanna Smith They're getting family pictures. Period. The kid is getting stuff to further her career. Also period.
Marie Reid 1985, I opened my own shop, no kids, no point in this madness. My brother died, we took all of my husband's old C'mas ornaments Val Vill. People are so wrapped up in this bullshit! Try to avoid the music! Any store after Nov. 1, C'mas carols forced on you. All TV advertising is non-stop C'mas. Record TV on my PVR & s......kip commercials. How can I compete with Big Buy, Future Shop, & Leons?
Moto Juku I spend valuable time seeking, purchasing, sending some unecessary crap and in return, the same thing is happening to the receiver of this crap. Gifting should occur because you want to and not because you have to. I have stopped doing this exercise for the last two years.
Kyle M Denholm I agree totally. This year instead of spending a bunch of money on things that people dont NEED, we made gifts (i am a homebrewer) and as a family we are all going to "Greenfield Village Holiday Nights" in Dearborn, MI and the Henry Ford Museum. We are making memories, not supporting cheap imports from Wal-Mart! Way to go!
Candiece Nicole Miller-Barnthouse Buy nothing Christmas.... hmmm as radical as it is, I rather like this idea! Christmas has become this absurd buying frenzy and most of us have lost sight of the "reason for the season".
Sally
Hmmmm, thought the point was not to 'boycott' Christmas, moreso to boycott the pathetic consumer overspend! Get back to a basic Christmas folks, do something nice for people and not to play the 'I've spent more on my kids than you' one-up-manship!
http://www.buynothingchristmas.org/
www.buynothingchristmas.org
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Andree Collier Zaleska I very much enjoy Christmas: the tree, my children, candlelight service on x-mas Eve. It has been much improved by my increasing commitment to giving only small, fun gifts from thrift shops, or gifts of homemade food. While I still buy presents for the family's children, I am increasingly able to explain the"less is m...ore" concept of the holidays to my boys (8 and 11).
Mundafar Check out some free anti-consumer music at www.wethesheeppeople.com and we have a great holiday tune called "Stuff" so turn it up loud over the holidays its free!!!
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Stuart Graeme Godwin
The date Dec 25th is really the first day the Sun rises upwards after its 3 days of being at it's lowest point (in the northern Hemisphere). The season is really the celebration of the Winter Solstice, the end of darkness and the begining of new Sunlight. ALL the extra religious conotations hijacked upon and on to this... simple phenomenon, caused by the Planets tilt, and orbit around it's Sun are Bollocks, and should not be recognised, supported or condoned.
Hapiness and Good Will should be year round. S;)
Nico Do something nice for somebody. Can we really have enough of that in this world?
Lisa Andersson I haven't celebrated christmas in years. i can hardly remember the last time i got a christmaspresent, or gave one. but i'm actually starting to miss it... i think i want to celebrate it this year, it was so long ago. i will keep it cheap though. the people i know would just get angry with me if they knew i spent lots ...of money on them :p they want me to save instead. I think people should celebrate christmas every 3 or 4 years. every year is too much. you wont get a chance to miss it then.
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.
www.billmckibben.com
Hundred Dollar Holiday: The Case For A More Joyful Christmas, by Bill McKibben
