Shopping is going to be a bit different for all of us this holiday season, due to the bad economy. A great way to handle the challenges you may be facing is to buy local & handmade. Directly supporting artists, your neighborhood, and your neighbors is a gift in itself.
Department stores are cheaper... but that's just it: they're cheaper. Sometimes less is more. To be perfectly honest? Almost everyone I know would greatly prefer a small hand-made item to a pile of things yanked off the clearance rack at the last minute.
Here are a few of my favorite reasons from Poppytalk's list:
4. purchase from artisans/craftspeople who ENJOY creating their wares.
17. Giving handmade is truly the essence of gift-giving. When you give a friend or loved one a gift, you are really saying "I care about you." A handmade gift conveys so much more than something pulled off the end-cap display of a mega store. Of course there are the obvious economic benefits of supporting independent makers and artists, but buying and giving handmade is, at heart, a loving act.
21. Many items are much more environmentally friendly since there is no use of large manufacturing machines, chemicals, labor (some of it probably illegal) and waste.
44. Because normally, buying handmade does not require fighting for a parking space, having your ears pierced by blaring holiday music, walking around in a daze under flourescent lights, fighting to push a shopping cart with one bad wheel, or having a cashier you don't know ask for your phone numb
er and zip code.
55. No human explotaition.
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