I send ecards to those who have computers. Any alternative Green ways to send Christmas Greetings for those who don't use computers please?
2007-11-14 02:32:09 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment ➔ Other - Environment
Donations, Phone Calls and Holiday Hugs!
Send a financial contribution - whatever you can afford - to one or more environmental cause(s). Then phone everybody (save enough from your donation to cover long distance charges) and tell them that you did it. (Gently encourage them to do the same, instead of sending you a card or gift.)
Even before that, we took a real close look at our card list and eliminated those with whom we were no longer in touch, and those we had kept, just because we were receiving cards from them. (I think this may have been a relief to some people, because they stopped sending cards.)
What we had left were the people we really wanted to stay connected with. Most of those lived close enough to give Holiday Hugs in lieu of cards or gifts. Now we all do that instead of sending cards.
2007-11-14 02:44:37 · answer #1 · answered by Zee 4 · 5⤊ 0⤋
yep- E cards make it easy and inexpensive to send season's greetings, and there's no paper waste! but for those not online...
phone calls are the next best thing to being there. they are immeidiate and allow a chance to share the sounds of the holidays with those far away.
how about homemade ornaments... wooden, knitted, or crafty? they are individualized and inexpensive, and make good keepsakes year after year.
canned seasonal items (fruits, nuts, etc) are tasty reminders of the yuletide season. they are fresh and tasty, and the packaging can be reused! also along those lines, perhaps a nice pine bough and homemade candle display? the scent of evergreen is a wonderful reminder of the holiday season.
good to think of ways to celebrate the season while being 'smart' as well!
2007-11-14 08:32:29 · answer #2 · answered by patzky99 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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2014-09-27 05:17:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Send a seedling Xmas tree with your own personal greeting a directions on how to plant.
2007-11-14 03:36:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Hello Bella,
People enjoy phone calls, especially older relatives. I send out a quarterly farm newsletter to friends, family, and a few customers....so the Christmas cards get included with that. I make a lot of my own Christmas cards, since I love doing crafts.
Last year I made some really great ones with some old sheet music that someone was going to toss out.
I always assumed everyone was like me. I like to take old Christmas cards and recycle them into craft projects. I have a lot of ornaments. I bought just plain cardboard boxes. On the outside of the boxes, I decopaged (sp?)....glued the cards. The boxes look pretty spectacular People always want to know where I got such cool boxes.
I've learned to make all kinds of very old victorian looking cards with cards I cut up and recycle. I use to go out of my way to send them to all the members of my husbands family. Then I learned most of them just pitch them.
My Mom and I save all of our cards, and put the special ones in albums...so pretty much she's the only one who gets the really fancy ones now. ~lol~
If you like sending ecards, have you checked out Jacquie Lawsons site? I LOVE her e-cards. It's the only site I've ever subscribed to, they are so very nice. I think you will really like them too...she is based in the U.K., so the cards have a nice Brittish flair to some of them.
Link to her site:
http://www.jacquielawson.com/thecards.asp?c=3133186&source=jl203
I like to send cards/letters. I'm very much a person who writes old fashioned hand written letters.
If you have children, recycle some of their art work into cards, ESPECIALLY for grandparents.
I shop all year round. If I find a book I think someone will enjoy, I buy it. Instead of a card, they may get a book with an inscription/Christmas wish in it. (I don't just buy new books, we adore old books too)
By the way...did you know you can make really great cards with fabric? The pocket area of an old pair of jeans is very easy. It makes a really cute place to put a little note, or letter. I like to send "cards" that can double as christmas tree ornaments.
~Garnet
Homesteading/Farming over 40 years
2007-11-14 11:20:50 · answer #5 · answered by Bohemian_Garnet_Permaculturalist 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Purchase greeting cards printed on recycled paper!
2007-11-14 03:19:24 · answer #6 · answered by Gretchen G 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You are the sweetest frog ever!! I sent an email to a little boy and told him I'm Santa's helper he will be getting a special gift from him this year I hope!! ♥
2016-03-14 13:10:04 · answer #7 · answered by Penelope 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No solution, calling uses electricity. Visiting in person uses gasoline. Unless you're a telepath, there is no viable alternative.
2007-11-14 02:40:00 · answer #8 · answered by Phurface 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
E-cards or phone calls. Also see the website www.buynothingchristmas.org.
2007-11-14 05:29:51 · answer #9 · answered by lucy 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Sit at home in the dark and cold shivering and worrying about emitting CO2 from your steaming breath. Really, Life is too short to worry about trivial things like that IMO.
2007-11-14 03:44:59 · answer #10 · answered by JimZ 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋