Posts tagged Christmas
BorrowMe supports uEnd.org this holiday season.
Dec 15th
I stood just inside the doorway, I might as well have been invisible. Hundreds of holiday shoppers were dodging in and out of stores, nearly climbing over each other, like a colony of ants. Loads of holiday gifts were being deposited with weary husbands trying to avoid the fray on the limited benches scattered throughout the mall. As I watched them scurry around, arms loaded with overpriced swag I wondered if anybody was thinking about the less fortunate?
Our ‘Buy Nothing Christmas’
Dec 8th
While many Christians still celebrate Christmas as the birthday of Jesus, the rest of the world has been sucked into the consumerist holiday that infects our lives like a plague, starting on November 1st. The holiday season has been poisoned by mass consumption and greed. While millions of people suffer, barely able to eat, local children are throwing temper tantrums because they didn’t get the latest *INSERT TOY OF THE YEAR HERE* in their stocking.
Xmas is almost here, have you rented your tree?
Nov 9th
No, that’s not a typo! Los Angeles based Living Christmas Co. has embarked upon the ingenious idea of renting live trees for the holiday season! Inspired by the sheer sadness he felt while navigating the Post-Christmas carnage lining the streets in his neighborhood, landscape architect Scott Martin took it upon himself to ensure some trees would see many a Merry Christmases.