Back a few years ago the barking owls got deeply involved in Adbusters’ Buy Nothing Day. We had a lot of fun with that, and got a lot of joy out of creating one of the most popular features on barkingowl.com apart from the flash on our home page, the Big Love Gift Guide. The Big Love Gift Guide is all about giving and sharing ideas about how to gift gifts of love rather than expensive gifts.

Buy Nothing Christmas addresses Christmas gift-giving directly, trying to de-commercialise Christmas:

Buy Nothing Christmas is a national initiative started by Canadian Mennonites who offer a prophetic “no” to the patterns of over-consumption of middle-class North Americans

They have some good alternate gift ideas here too.