Yes, it’s not too early to start planning for Christmas. More specifically, it’s not too early to start planning if you want to have a Buy Nothing Christmas. A bunch of Canadian Mennonites have been promoting this concept through this Web site, and this Facebook page.
I like them because they’re not afraid to tell the truth about Christmas consumption as they see it, yet they’re not sanctimonious about it. And they play ukuleles in the snow. And they have funny posters.
While I know my extended family wouldn’t go for a buy-nothing Christmas, my goal for this year is to make gifts myself or make sure they come from local (either to me or the recipient) merchants.
Aimee, nice compromise between ideals and reality.