Poor 'Possum

I have a 14 year old nephew I spend Christmas with every year, and I have always been terrible at getting him gifts, not least of which is because I've never really had money, but also because he usually gets so much plasticky stuff that he's developed into quite a little consumer, and I just... Don't want to add to that. But I want to give him *something.* Especially if it's something that somehow opens the doors to some of the issues his neo-liberal parents don't like me talking about around the kid: labor, climate change, anti-consumption...

#solarpunk #AntiConsumption #christmas #IWW #ServiceIndustry #labor #TrashMammal #TrashMammalHoliday

Dec 18, 2022 at 4:33pmWeb
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@poorpossum experiences are better than things! Like a trip to a water park, or all day at a video game parlor, or visiting a local falconer, or glow in the dark frisbee at night, or eating at a cat cafe, or petting stingrays at an aquarium, or a movie marathon, or baking cookies, or a snowball fight, or watching a meteor shower after bedtime, or a book of encrypted messages, or making your own paper, or ...