Curious of the ways you are avoiding buying mass-produced junk as gifts for people this holiday season. Share your ideas and tips, what you make or do, or how you otherwise partake of the joys of togetherness this time of year, without consuming for the sake of consumption.
My gift to my friends this year is to help them pick colors, and then paint 1-2 rooms in whatever colors they buy. This is something they have talked about doing in the near future anyway, so they were pretty stoked. None of them have the tools for it, so each would have bought a bunch of stuff they would use once, probably would have used painters tape (something I don’t use other than for non-corner color splits/stripes), and it would be a hassle and take forever. I’m not a professional painter or anything, but I am rather good, and fast, at it because I need change in my own environment every few years, so everyone is pretty happy with this arrangement.