With two weeks until Christmas, we’ve got plenty of ideas for presents to get our kids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ideas for what we can get them, ideas we’ve given to grandparents – so many ideas we’ve already<\/strong> got enough for next Christmas. And the list? All store-bought. No heartfelt homemade Christmas gifts to speak of. Oops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then this morning while I was putting away our 6-year-old’s laundry, I noticed Christmas presents from last year neatly stacked in the corner of her closet. They haven’t been touched since last December<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not because she didn’t enjoy last year’s presents. She did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It’s just too much for a kid. And I know that because a few weeks ago, and told me. She said when she goes into her room, she doesn’t know what to play with because there’s too much to choose from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What’s the point of spending all this time and money on buying more and more<\/strong> stuff, only to have it sit in a closet for a year (or more) until we get fed up with the clutter and donate it all to charity?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Call me Scrooge if you want, but the whole situation has me craving something a little more meaningful this holiday season. And as it turns out, I’m not alone in yearning for a yuletide from yesteryear. 84 percent of Americans said they would prefer a less materialistic holiday season<\/a>. And 81 percent of adults appreciate when someone makes a donation<\/a> to a charity in their name instead of a giving a physical gift.<\/p>\n\n\n