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Christmas Gifts
It's early, isn't it? but UNICEF have sent me their Christmas catalogue, so I've started thinking about it.
Christmas gifts - and birthday gifts - bother me. And cards, they bother me too. Because I love to receive them, at least, most of them - but greetings cards are usually a pointless, heavy-handedly humorous, eco-unfriendly way of syaing "I didn't forget! I care!" which, you know, ought to mean I use e-cards instead, but I loathe e-cards.
Gifts bother me because everyone I know already has enough stuff, and I have too much stuff, but we all want more stuff, and we don't need any of it. I don't actually know anyone on my must-give-gifts list who would be genuinely pleased to receive "10 geese for a farmer in Uganda" or whatever.
Thus the compromise: UNICEF. The cards aren't hideous and don't try to be amusing. The sources are moderate-to-good on the eco-meter. The cause is, without having done any research, fine. And the gifts... well, they're generic gifts. Candles and bags and stationery and toys and silk ties. Gifts for people who already have all the stuff they really want, because their income allows that, but still like more stuff as gifts, especially if it's nice stuff. And the UNICEF stuff is nice stuff.
The only time I tried to give a gift that wasn't clutter-junk, it wasn't used. Ho hum.