Less Stuff, More Joy
Fed up with consumerism this holiday season? Download the free Simplify the Holidays brochure from the Center for a New American Dream at www.newdream.org/holiday/home.html.

It lists ways to reduce our impact on the environment during the holidays as well as ideas for curbing materialism, such as giving gifts of time, homemade gifts, gifts of experience, and gifts to charity. Instead of giving that big screen TV, why not offer to babysit for your neighbor, or bake a basket full of homemade cookies for grandma, or teach a friend to swing dance, or sponsor a refugee in your brother’s name?