When do you start your holiday shopping?
Submitted by Murphy.
Never. Or always.
I make postcards, write letters to friends and sometimes do some baking and special meal-making during the holidays. I have a collection of kids' books that I've picked up here and there that go to my younger friends. My biggest expense is stamps. I'm not a churchgoer, but Bill McKibben's Hundred Dollar Holiday idea always resonated with me.
If I'm spending the holidays with family Kate and I will often make something out of stuff we have around the house, hers or mine. It's a little hand-made-ashtray-ish but we're pretty talented and everyone knows we're like this. Otherwise I'm an impulse "Hey this thing just screamed your name at me" shopper, and that can happen at any time, but most frequently at the library booksale and not today, because today is a holiday.
Sorry friends and family, it's books again this year. When you're done with them, would you please pass them along to someone else who might like them? Thanks.
I make soap, and have an addiction to weird bookstores. People tend to get soap and books. ;)
Posted by: DeAnne | 11/25/2006 at 12:50 PM