How fun is giving and receiving gifts? Does one trump the other for you? We do a mix of gifting in our family for Christmas, but in more recent years, we’ve started making specific gift lists so we can give something needed and necessary. This fits so well for me with ethical, conscious buying. I like meeting a need rather than getting another version of something they already have, or something they don’t need at all.

Joseph finds my gift lists very funny, and I know that the alarm clock and the flour mill are a tad far-fetched (ha!), but here are 12 gifts making the list this year and miraculously, there is no books in sight which is quite a big deal for me but i’ve vowed to read what I have before accumulating more! What’s making your list?

It’s November…somehow?! And thoughts of Christmas slowly infiltrate!

It’s always my hope to help you buy better when you need to! Whether you have no idea what shopping more responsibly looks like, or whether you’re a pro but just need some ideas- let this be for you! 

Can you believe it! November is here which means…. here are my ethical and sustainable gift guides for 2022.

It’s always my hope to help you buy better when you need to! Whether you have no idea what shopping more responsibly looks like, or whether you’re a pro but just need some ideas- let this be for you!

This year more than ever before, I’ve been really challenged in my buying. Buying responsibly is great, buying secondhand…better, but, do I even need to buy at all? There’s lots of questions being asked and conversations being had. Let’s buy things to be loved and well used, passed on even. Let’s dig into a companies ethics before we commit, let’s linger rather than buy on impulse, let’s support the small guy, the start-up and minority-owned businesses.