A Sustainable Gift Guide
It’s the season of gift-giving!! This is an exciting time of the year to show your love and appreciation to those close to you; however, it can be difficult to decide just what kind of presents would make the perfect gift. Either you’re optimistic and feel like the gift possibilities are endless, or you're at a loss and feel like you can’t find anything. Gift-giving is already hard and becomes even more difficult when trying to find something sustainable.
Don’t stress too much though, because this blog post has some creative and unique gifts those close to you, as well as the planet, will love. Also, through this blog post, you will learn more about some efficient and crafty ideas to gift sustainably.
Gifts For Your Green Thumbs
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Check out Orta seed planters! These are an amazing gift for those with a green thumb. Orta seed planters are self-watering pots that allow you to grow your seeds into new plant babies. It's the gift that just keeps giving!
If you’re a DIYer, visit your local thrift store and buy a pot. Then you can buy any plant at your local nursery to fill it. Make sure to check out our partner organization Planting Justice for amazing unique plants you can give. That's another gift that just keeps giving!!
Gifts For Your Foodies
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One gift that never fails the foodies in your lives is a basket full of snacks. I speak as a renowned foodie myself. You can bake some goods, throw in some nostalgic snacks, and add some fun baking ingredients. Renewal Mill is a great company that sells easy-to-bake kits by upcycling byproducts from food manufacturers. Great for the foodies in your lives as well as the planet.
Gifting gift cards to any locally owned food spaces is also a great and efficient gift. Aside from it being an easy gift to give and receive, it is efficient in a way that is good for one’s local economy. It is important to remember the importance of shopping small and local to support small businesses.
Gifts For Your Homebodies
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For those who like to just lay back at home, why not gift them that comfort? An easy gift idea would be to thrift some glasses or a mug and add a drink that matches the cup you got for them. For example, if your bestie loves wine, you can thrift some wine glasses and add their favorite bottle of wine to it. Or if they love coffee, you can thrift a mug and add coffee grounds to it.
Gifting self-care products is also a gift most homebodies would enjoy. Check out Purifico for eco-friendly personal care products!
Gifts For Your Social Butterflies
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For those loved ones who are so social that they are always invited to cookouts, consider getting them an Aplat Carrier Tote. These tote bags are wide enough for your pans and dishes, spill-free!
A picnic blanket is another great gift for those social butterflies. Sand Cloud picnic blankets come in a variety of stylish prints, there is no doubt you’ll find a print perfect for your social butterfly.
Sustainable Gift Wrapping
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When it comes to sustainability and gift-giving, let's not stop at the gifts. Here are a few ideas to reduce your waste when you're gifting.
Use your grocery paper bags to wrap small boxes. You can add to it by adding a cute bow to it.
Buy gift bags and encourage people to save them for the next time they have a gift to give.
Thrift a cute basket that can later be used as storage or decor.
Reuse any newspaper you can get your hands on. Wrapping your gifts in a newspaper will give your gifts a vintage look with on-the-date topicality.
Good luck and happy holidays!
