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I find all that “Buy Buy Buy” frenzy absolutely disgusting.
In the past, homemade gifts were appreciated more than store-bought ones. I just saw a charming show called “The Victorian Farm Christmas”. The people who live & work on an actual working Victorian-style farm in England demonstrated how the Victorians who lived on a farm (or were poorer) made presents…from the blacksmith who made a door-knocker, to the ladies who made lavender sachets and even dyed the ribbons to tie up the presents (no tape back then!). They used plants for the pigments, and the colours were dazzlingly bright.
As for me, I still remember the Christmas when Mom gave me a beautiful “Alice in Wonderland” dress she’d made for me…and a doll in a matching dress she’d made. And the Christmas when she gave me a ballerina doll in a tutu she’d made. And there were two Christmases in a row when Mom’s present was a dress I’d made for her. She wore the first to a New Year’s Eve dance that year, and dazzled everyone.
So it doesn’t all have to be store-bought. You just have to plan ahead and work on it a bit each day. Not the easiest of things for us, but it *can* be done!
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