Buy! Buy! Buy!
Bacon-scented lip balm, frankincense & myrrh shaving creme, or nothing-at-all in a see-thru cube — Hey, Christmas is coming!
I read recently that each year in the United States, four million tons of paper go from logs to landfills just so we all can have holiday wrapping paper and shopping bags. Here I am trying to have a paperless office when I read about an amount of paper that, if stacked four feet wide by four feet high, would stretch 100 miles! All for the bags we use to carry gifts home from the malls and the pretty paper we surround each gift with. Mostly at Christmas. Yikes!
Celebrating Christmas as we Americans do must be the most wasteful activity we engage in. It’s not only the tree decorations and the paper; the gifts themselves can be really crazy. Would you believe that Americans went holiday shopping last year and actually bought stuff like:
Bacon-scented lip balm, wallets printed with bacon images, the “must-have” book 99 Ways to Open a Beer Bottle without a Bottle Opener, Hello Kitty green nail polish, “emergency makeup,” candles that smell like very old books, “A Christmas Story” written on fudge, mid-century style pet beds, hand-crafted beer totes, cardboard cutouts of your sister, pinhole cameras, molds in the shape of a gun for cooking eggs, 3D welcome mats in the…
