November 9, 2007

Buy Handmade This Holiday Season

by Piers Fawkes

There seems to be a growing movement this holiday season to try to not give or receive too much new and produced crap on Christmas day. Concerned about the impact of their consumption, more people are remaking, recycling and reusing instead of buying. This Pledge nicely highlights the growing feelings against mass-consumption and the pressures we’re put under to buy this coming festive season.

Buy Handmade - Make Your Pledge To Buy Handmade Goods.

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One Response to “Buy Handmade This Holiday Season”

  1. CreativeGoddess
    Posted from: 75.178.190.172

    November 13th, 2007 at 7:48 pm

    Hey Guys! I appreciate the sentiment but you might want to change your image to something a litte more, well, handmade.

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