You Are the Gift

Happy holidays simple livers. Once again we have the perfect opportunity to initiate a buy nothing Christmas. 

But it won’t be easy.

Suggesting leaving gift giving behind in our debt-funded consumerist economy is tantamount to treason, punishable by exclusion, banishment and ostracizication. 

However, it also just might save us from out of control debt and misery, not to mention overstuffed storage lockers and garbage bins.

Mainstream narratives confuse good will in the world with good loot under the tree. We can turn that around.

It is amazing what a search for ‘’no gifts, please’’ brings up. Tons of polite and gracious ways to let people know you are going gift free.

If you are present-free curious, right now is the perfect time for choosing a stress-free, gift-free holiday season.

Try one or more of the above suggested ways to communicate your desire to make this holiday season about relationships with each other, and nature rather than about loot.

Besides, the best gift you can give is your time and undivided attention. 

And that is free.

No material gift may be the best gift this year. It is exactly what many of us would like.

Thanks for nothing, except for you, just as you are, which I deeply love and cherish.

Be the most valuable gift you can give, then give freely.

The world will be a better place because of the gift of your presence in this very moment.

Happy Buy Nothing Christmas from your Scroogey friends at the Not Buying Anything Blog.

Thank you for your time and attention year round, for which we are infinitely grateful.