Directory of Social and Economic Resources

Lists sites which examine Christmas from a social or economic perspective.

Resources in This Category

Buy Nothing Christmas

http://www.buynothingchristmas.org/
National initiative started by Canadian Mennonites to de-commercialize Christmas and re-design a Christian lifestyle that is richer in meaning, smaller in impact upon the earth, and greater in giving to people less-privileged.
Buy Nothing Day - Adbusters

http://www.adbusters.org/bnd/
Loosely organized event encouraging not shopping at all on the day after Thanksgiving, the "first day of the Christmas shopping season."
Christmas Gift Challenge

http://www.thelaboroflove.com/forum/dollar/41.html
An organized approach to holiday spending.
Christmas Resistance Movement

https://www.facebook.com/ChristmasResistanceMovement
Tips to help end the compulsory Christmas gift-giving madness.
Liberal Reasons Not to Celebrate Christmas

http://www.aliveness.com/kangaroo/NoChristmas.html
Economic, environmental, social and religious reasons to not celebrate Christmas and a suggestion to celebrate the Winter Solstice instead.
The Commercialization of Christmas

http://www.dldewey.com/xmas96.htm
A look at the practice of exchanging gifts at Christmas.

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