I'm sure many of you will agree. As a society we have too much stuff.
The pressure to shop around Christmas is just ridiculous. I have made several changes over the years to shop less and not give as many gifts. As a result my gift list is very short.
This year, I made the suggestion to my family that we give to charities instead of giving to each other. So we sat down and made a list of charities we could give to, one for each day of Christmas. So starting on the December 25, the first day of Christmas we will make a donation to one of 12 charities. Some of these will be hearing from us for the first time, others we're regular supporters. As much as possible we chose charities that impacted us personally or were in our local area (Okotoks and Calgary).
It just feels right.
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