My birthday is in December. This has always been the case. This year, Anna gave me a homemade beauty product that also happens to be delicious (the base is honey) but don't eat it! Use it to make your lips luscious. It's a lip scrub:
Fifteen days after my birthday comes a big holiday that has the potential to spiral out of control with its waste-producing abilities. Hint: it starts with chopping down a tree just to keep in the house for a couple of weeks, and plugging in heaps upon heaps of tiny lights, or as well call it in the business, vampire electrical load. That's right, I'm not talking about Kwanzaa.
This year for not Hanukkah, my sister gave Sergio and me the following awesome gifts:
1. Homemade lavender scented beeswax candle in a reusable jar.
2. Yoga mat cleaning spray. If only photos could be smelled. This spray smells like a wonderful perfume! Also in a reusable container.
3. In my opinion, the chef d'oeuvre: a huge assortment of reusable snack bags. We have some serious snackers in our house, and these are not only cute, but Anna made them herself in such an array of shapes and sizes. Wow!
I really appreciated all of the thoughtfulness that went into these zero waste gifts, and am quite inspired to make this my gift giving practice in the future. Garbage cans the world around would be a little lighter if we all did.
