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Green Holiday Tip #10: Spend Time, Not Money
Spent all your money but still have a few people on your list? Try a different currency…
Green Holiday Tip #9: Buy Pre-Owned
OK this won’t work for everything or everybody, but from books to gear to gadgets you can…
Green Holiday Tip #8: Think Outside the Box
My husbands grandparents have a Christmas tradition that I discovered the first one I spent with them….
Green Holiday Tip #7: Choose to Reuse
Reusing has become more mainstream in the past few years with the plethora of stylish reusable bags,…
Green Holiday Tip #6: Buy Local
What is it you appreciate about living in Central Oregon? Whether it’s the mountains and rivers, family…
Green Holiday Tip #5: Buy the Product, Not the Packaging
On average, 10 percent of what we pay for a product goes towards the packaging…often that same…
Green Holiday Tip #4: Handmade Holiday
Make it Yourself I don’t know about you, but my favorite gifts to give are the ones…
Tip #3: Choose Quality Over Quantity
Quality over quantity: a common expression But won’t one item instead of twelve, end in depression? “No,…
Green Holiday Tip #2: Make Memories, Not Garbage.
Ahhh, memories… tastes, smells, sounds, sights, feelings of excitement and fuzziness, of bitter cold and warm breezes……
Thoughtful Giving Tip #1: PLAN AHEAD & PREPARE
With goblins and ghouls competing with jingle bells in October, it seems the holidays creep up on…
Rethink Your Holiday: Top 10 Ways to Give Green This Holiday
With America’s biggest shopping day of the year creeping into Thanksgiving, it seems like a good time…