Stocking stuffers: a waste free Christmas!
23 November 2023
Christmas is just around the corner (exciting yet terrifying, we know)! There are loads of ways that we can have a beautiful day with family, gifting things that mean the world, without costing the world.
Gift giving isn’t everybody’s way of celebrating Christmas, but it is for plenty salan. Read on for a few awesome ideas of how to spread the love in a sustainable way.
Home-made gifts
Don’t know about yorlyi, but home-made gifts mean so much more to us than something bought. A few DIY things include:
- Food! Chocolates, cookies, mini Christmas puddings, brandy sauce or some delicious home-made jam.
- Seed bombs. Whether its bought seed or seed you’ve saved, making little seed bombs that can be scattered throughout the garden are a beautiful gift
- Sourdough starter. Who doesn’t love homemade sourdough?? Why not gift some starter so everyone can make their own?
- A favourite recipe
- A fruit tree (or any tree for that matter)
- An Energy Exchange
- Energy exchanges are a lovely way of giving something that is really needed! Some might include...
- A house clean!
- A massage
- A garden blitz! These are so much fun. Get everyone together, play some good music, have a sausage sizzle, and smash out all those jobs that need doing, together!
- Window cleans!
- Offer to mend some clothes
- Repurpose- The options are endless!
- Find an awesome T-shirt at the Opshop or The Norfolk Wave
- Up-cycle some old fabric to make a funky floor mat
- Make a new lampshade for an old lamp
- Create a terraced garden bed from old tyres
Aside from gift giving, Christmas and the holiday season presents us with all sorts of opportunities to make green choices. Decoration is one of these!
Instead of this… |
Try this… |
A plastic tree |
A real tree! Any tree can be a Christmas tree, but a potted Norfolk Pine is the perfect tree to use year after year |
Tinsel |
Recycled paper chains |
24/7 fairy lights |
Solar powered lights or set them to a timer. This reduces power use and light pollution. Our birds need to sleep too! |
Single use baubles |
Timber decorations that can be used each year. Or try making your own tree decorations from cardboard or dehydrated citrus and cinnamon. |
Bought wrapping paper |
This can be a great time to use up that stockpile of ‘cute’ drawings that the kids bring home (guilt free)! Boomerang bags, sarongs or newspaper also make great wrapping options. |
Send a photo to lilli@revolveyourworld.org, or via messenger at The Norfolk Wave to enter our Sustainable Christmas Tree competition! Provide a brief
description of how you’ve made sustainable choices. The winner will be announced on the 27th December. Choose between a $100 voucher to Prinke, or a load of glass sand of your choice (valued at $200).
Let’s get festive!
Thaenks f aklan
Lil, Mandi, Dan and the Revolve Your World team