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15 Dec
If you are going to buy this Christmas...
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Here at the freeconomy community we love Christmas - it's an amazing time for the family to come together and to celebrate all that is beautiful about life - good food shared with our closest friends.
Increasingly though it has become a shopping festival where the extent of your love is judged on how much you spend. For the sake of our planet we are encouraging people to not buy the line given to us by the marketing departments of huge corporations - that you are inadequate if you don't have the biggest TV and the latest games console!
Its expected that this year the money spent on 'unwanted gifts' (this doesn't include the value of those gifts that people did want) is going to pass £2.5bn for the first time.
If you want to give a true gift this Christmas, here's what we recommend:
1. Buy a tree or plant, preferably a food bearing one. Local food growing is going to become essential really soon and apparently we don't have quite as many trees as we did twenty years ago.
2. Give a donation on behalf of someone for a cause that is very close to your friends / family members heart.
3. Get something from freecycle.
4. If you do like to buy something physical, why not buy them some inspiration. Get a few copies of the book or DVD that changed your life, and give one to everyone you know. It might have the same effect on them.
Personally I partake in 'Buy Nothing Christmas'. At first I think friends and family shouted a collective 'Bah Humbug!', but now they are also starting to understand that probably the best gift we can actually give our children is a healthy planet.
(any other tips comment on this post in the 'Alternative Economy' section of the forum where I have also posted this)
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