We shop till Visa says No More
Here we are in the week before Christmas. All through the land we line up in the shops with credit cards in our hands spending away on the right stuff. Or what we hope is the right stuff. Is this present the right thing? I find it quite a troubling time.
It is a time of joy and all that, but the cynicism seems to rising a bit more this year in me and the people I talk to. The consumption seems to be even more conspicuous and the prices higher and the expectations more daunting and the stress on the streets is palpable.
We did a project a few years ago in conjunction with Buy Nothing Day. It was called the Big Love Gift Guide, and we just popped it up on the web with some alternate gift suggestions that didn’t need you to spend money. This time of year, the Big Love Gift Guide gets lots of hits as folk look for gift alternatives. People’s alternate gift ideas added to the guestbook are quite touching and interesting. It is worth a look, especially when looking for a gift for those people who seem to have everything.
And I promise I won’t be in the shops at the last minute of Christmas eve like I was last year ;-)
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