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Nov 25, 2009
Tony Mazon

Christmas can (still) change the world

Here we are again. The day before Thanksgiving and two days before the biggest shopping day of the year. Here are some of my thoughts.

It’s estimated that Americans spend $450 billion on Christmas every year.* And for what? For a gift that he/she MAY like? How long are they actually going to use that? How long until it’s being sold at a garage sale, given to a church or homeless shelter, or worse, thrown away? My wife and I have decided that this year, we are going to go minimal on the consumer type gifts this year, and instead try to do something a little more helpful to those in need.
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Dec 18, 2007
Tony Mazon

Bringing Christmas Back


[AC] Advent Conspiracy from Jon Collins on Vimeo.

A friend of mine introduced me to this, and I felt it was not only appropriate, but much needed in our modern day consumerism society.
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