Hannah

Hannah

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Hannah's Second-Hand Christmas, rules here

It’s go-time for Second-hand Christmas! ⛄️Remember, we don’t have the convenience of 1-click Amazon shopping, so start asap (don’t wait until the last minute; this is a process that takes a little more time, thought, and sometimes patience.) If you’re joining in on the fun for the first time, will you tag me in your stories? (I get a kick out of seeing your finds!)

On this treasure hunt, I found:

✅These baby shoes with little squirrel heads for the tongues (😍) - for my bestie who is expecting. We have one of those inside jokes that involves squirrels...but like many inside jokes, we can’t remember exactly how it started. But the gift giving tradition of squirrel merchandise continues.

✅A wreath...for $1.99!

✅An electric tea kettle for one of my sisters (who requested one on her wish list.)

✅A landscape canvas for my brother (who requested art to fill his living space)

✅and when it comes to clothes in general, I am such a sucker for elbow patches ...I couldn’t resist this teeny baby sweater! 💗💗

Here are the rules again. Of course, personalize as you’d like; this is what we decided on:

1. Gifts have to be second-hand, from a thrift store, from Facebook Marketplace, etc - no matter where it comes from, the gift has to have had a previous owner. This a win for the environment. By shopping second-hand you're not perpetuating the cycle of creating new products - when we live in a world where there is already plenty of stuff! Keeping items out of landfill. To us, it doesn’t matter where a gift comes from. If the gift adds value to the recipients life, if it’s something they actually will use, that’s a good gift!

2. Gifts total no more than $20 per person. No post-holiday credit card bill shock here. According to MagnifyMoney, consumers who went into debt over the holiday season averaged $1,054 of debt. Only half of those surveyed expected to repay the debt within 3 months.

3. Wrapping has to be sustainable - this could be newspaper, decorated brown paper with twine, a fun tea or coffee tin, etc. But no traditional wrapping paper. 4.6 million lbs. of wrapping paper is produced in the U.S. each year. 2.3 million pounds of it ends its life in landfill.


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