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Just hang out with your friends and/or family. Make improvised arts and crafts. Bake. Sing. Have a cuddle puddle.
Purchase gifts from locally owned businesses
Create your own gifts
Donate money to a socially worthy cause in the name of a loved one.
Make a hand-made recipe book
Books on tape
Adopt a polar bear, snow leopard or giant panda in the name of all my friends and family members from World Wildlife Fund.
Gift basket of organic teas and fair trade coffees
Give Linux for Christmas! It’s free and it works like a charm!
Write a song or poem. Perform it. Frame it.
Make a family calendar
Avoid commercial wrapping paper, ribbons, bows and tape, which are not recyclable, and opt for gift bags, tea towels or nice boxes, which are eco-friendly.
Give something you don’t use any more.
Give herb plants
Make hand-made soap or candles
For the elderly people in your life, research newspaper and magazine articles from their youth and present in a creative fashion.
Write and illustrate a book for the young people in your life
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 