How much STUFF do we need?

[Melalvai]

This article on NPR is relevant to this topic: "Pepper-Spraying the Holidays: Time and the Ethic of Consumption"

In addition to addressing how the time & efficiency movement in industry spread to stores and even to our lives at home, he suggests buying half the number of gifts and sending cards to the people not receiving gifts telling them how important they were to you this year.

We only give to immediate family and that wouldn't work for us, but maybe it's a good idea for someone else.

[ny biker]

This article on NPR is relevant to this topic: "Pepper-Spraying the Holidays: Time and the Ethic of Consumption"

In addition to addressing how the time & efficiency movement in industry spread to stores and even to our lives at home, he suggests buying half the number of gifts and sending cards to the people not receiving gifts telling them how important they were to you this year.

We only give to immediate family and that wouldn't work for us, but maybe it's a good idea for someone else.

If I was one of the people who received a card, I would think that if I was really important to you I would have made the gift list...


I do not have too much stuff. Although some of my stuff needs to be replaced with better stuff.

[SadieKate]

I think George Carlin has the answer.

http://youtu.be/MvgN5gCuLac

If you feel the need to give a gift that isn't "stuff," try Kiva or Heifer International.

I was so relieved when our families on both sides decided to stop with the gifts. Nobody needed more stuff and a lot of it was s##t.*

*You have to watch this video to get the "stuff vs s##t" joke.

[amb]

My husband and I are buying a house so we're busy packing up and cleaning out.....so much STUFF! We have already taken several loads to the local thrift store. So much junk we don't need!