Eco Blog Number 2 – Eco Friendly Presents

I know you’ve all been eagerly awaiting this month's ecological promise from Rob, Dob, Howard and Co.

So here it is - From now on, all the presents we buy will have an environmentally friendly theme. I can’t say too much about it, as it may give away some of this year's Christmas surprises. Basically, we won’t be buying any plastic items such as plastic toy santas from China. If we can’t find anything to buy you as a present that’s eco friendly, we may buy/plant you a tree, much like Chris and Liz did last year. (They bought us an acre of rainforest, which is exactly what we wanted, thank you). Also, we will always use recycled paper/boxes for wrapping (but will also use up the new stuff that's still in the house before we start wrapping your presents in pages from pop's old encyclopedia).

Having said that we won’t be so rude as to not accept anything that’s made from oil or pesticide embedded cotton (since we’re not buying that stuff ourselves, we may need some help there). However, we love getting acres of rainforest (to add to our ranch ;-), recycled gifts (anything unwanted from last year, especially good books), wool or organic cotton clothes, etc, etc. With Savvy being so young and having been already given more toys and clothes than she knows what to do with, she has asked Santa for some simple things this Christmas (see Dear Santa).

PS - Ashley says to tell all her Canadian friends and family that while we are trying to make an eco effort, we are hypocritical enough to still support the posting of heavy, large (very large) parcels our way. We will do the same. After all, choosing, wrapping, sending, receiving, and opening presents is pretty cool, whether it's green, or lime, or olive, or not quite green but almost green.