44 Re-Thinking Our Gift-Giving

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In our previous episode, we confessed that we have been somewhat schooled by the recently released Netflix Original series, Tidying Up with Marie Kondo.

…and that’s what got us re-thinking our gift-giving habits.

None of us actively wants to add clutter to other people’s lives, nor to the planet’s.

But. Our society has generally conditioned all of us to equate gift-giving with giving concrete, physical things.

So.

To help us re-condition ourselves, here are some things we managed to think of, for…

No-Waste Gift Ideas

  • foods like fun snacks, treats, spice packets, etc.

  • gift certificates to restaurants

  • soaps

  • candles

  • incense (or sage, sweetgrass, palo santo, etc.)

  • a membership to a museum, botanical garden, amusement park, etc.

  • a book of postage stamps (for the retro card and letter-writers)

  • gift certificate to Groupon (give the gift of experiences and tickets, like how we used Groupon to get tickets to an alpaca ranch tour)

  • meal services (like Hello Fresh, Blue Apron, or other, ready-made meal delivery services)

  • flowers (here’s that previous episode where we mentioned about when and why to not give flowers)

  • a donation to their favorite charitable organization

  • a gift from their favorite charitable organization, that benefits it

If you have any other ideas or anecdotes to share about this topic, you can give other readers the gift 😉of sharing it in the comments.

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