Buying With Purpose

Christmas is coming up and there are presents to buy, stockings to fill, and food to eat.

For my whole life, I have been given a stocking every Christmas and had presents from under the tree too. It’s only been in the last few years where I have begun to ask for less. If my family wish to fill a stocking for me, I’ve asked that it have sustainable items, consumables, and items that I will definitely use.

Christmas is a time when shops and stores fight to sell you as much as possible,...