Giving the Gifts that Matter

If you're like me you have tons and tons of junk. It's utterly consuming your home, your bedrooms, your closets, and your storage units. This holiday, I'm taking the opportunity to shop in a way that I've never shopped before.

I'm an extremely material person. Not necessarily in the way you may think. I enjoy giving people things. I pride myself in being excessively thoughtful and generous. I listen and give people things that I know they wanted. However, I know from personal experience that things are always just passing fads.

This year most (if not all) of the gifts I'm giving will be sustainable (plants, fair trade, etc) or charitable donations. I'm "adopting" a species for my baby cousins (they get a certificate of adpotion and a plush representative of the animal). I'm giving gifts of seedlings for my aunt, I'm giving a large donation to my best friends favorite animal shelter, I'm purchasing Native American artwork from Reservations for my parents, I'm buying fair trade tea for one of my cousins, and the list goes on and on.

I haven't been this excited about Christmas shopping a long, long time!!

If you're interested here are the links:

World Wildlife Fund
Project Concern
World Vision
Green Mountain Energy
The Eden Project
The Magnolia Company

There are so many more too!!! Whatever charity your recipient would appreciate.

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