Ways To Add A Little More Meaning To Your Holiday Naturally
1. Reflect on what’s important: Have a family discussion about what everyone is thankful for this year.
2. Experience Diversity: Incorporate other cultural and religious customs into your holiday celebrations.
3. Valunteer Where Ever You Can: Assist at a soup kitchen, children’s hospital or animal shelter.
4. Pick A Family Cause: Collect loose change and allowance money and donate it together.
5. Give Gifts That Count For Something: Instead of material items, give charitable donations in the names of friends, family, teachers and coaches.
6. Give meaningful gifts: Buy fair trade and ethically-sourced products from retailers such as World of Good Trade as One and Ten Thousand Villages.
7. Share In The Name Of The Holidays: Contribute new or gently used clothes and tous to the Salvation Army, Goodwill, toy drives or families in need.
8. Spread The Joy: Ask you child’s teacher to have students create handmade greeting cards. Then deliver them to a local senior citizen’s home.
9. Spread The Love: Compose a poem, song or testimonial telling someone that they are special. Create an eco keepsake: Write it on recycled paper and put it in a reclaimed wood frame.
10. Spend Time With Family: Cook together, talk with the TV off or just get on the floor and play games.
11. Care For The Earth: Conserve wrapping paper, reuse ribbons and bows, send greetings on recycled paper, or send e-cards online.
12. Celebrate Your Family: Appreciate the gifts that they are just for being themselves.
*Natural and Sustainable Living Tip: Compact your nonrecyclable trash and use fewer bags when throwing things away.
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