Archive for December, 2009

The True Meaning of Christmas

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

It’s almost Christmas and Dan and I have NOT succumbed to the shopping frenzy. But that’s really not new this year for us – we have never indulged in the Christmas shopping frenzy that has taken over America. We have always exchanged a few Christmas gifts depending on our economic status of the time, which usually isn’t much since I work in the non-profit world!

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Subversive Shopping – Or How to not buy from Corporate America

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

As our year of living without chains has progressed, I’ve become equally disenchanted with corporate America and the mass quantity of goods they are foisting on us with the hopes that we will continue this vicious cycle of needless consumption that has taken over America. And of course this is now on my mind more than ever due to the Christmas season.

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