Well it’s officially the start of our Christmas Countdown. I could not be more excited to be sharing with you 25 wonderful blog posts that will help you celebrate this holiday to the best of your ability!
Stay tuned everyday for a new feature, bringing you new ideas for Christmas this year!
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Since we’ve still got 25 days left until Christmas morning, we’ve still go time to do some present shopping! Here are 25 ways that you can give back this Christmas. Rather than purchasing material items this year, try a gift that will help empower change!
- Volunteer at your local homeless shelter
- Volunteer your time or resources at the local food bank
- Mentor a child over the holidays with Big Brother, Big Sister
- Take part in Operation Care Package to send Santa to the military troops
- Donate your old clothes and toys for families who would be thrilled to have them
- Help someone stay warm this Christmas by donating to One Warm Coat
- Join Holiday Helpers and adopt a family to provide a Christmas tree, gifts and food
- Fill the stockings with Heart and Stroke Lottery Tickets (only for Ontario residents)
- Donate your time (wrapping gifts, raking the lawn) for elderly and disabled in the community
- Support a buy one, give one organization like TOMS
- Shop at places that help give back with a purchase like Bluenotes’ Buy a Tee
- Shop LOCAL this Christmas
- Bake some goodies for the people who deserve a big ‘THANKS’ this year (firefighters, police)
- Donate money on behalf of someone who you knew and loved for a certain cause
- Buy eco-friendly and green products to give back to our earth!
- Buy someones coffee (or Tim Hortons) in line behind you
- Spoil those around you with compliments and wonderful greetings
- Go on a Christmas walk and pick up litter
- Donate some fruit trees with World Vision
- Sponsor a child with Save the Children
- Become a ‘Trooper’ and help provide clean water to moms around the world with Just a Drop
- Join a Toys For Tots program and donate toys and children’s accessories for Christmas
- Give blood
- Help my friend Steven Hille reach his donation goal to provide a water pump to a village in Africa
- Purchase apparel on my online shop and help keep Canadians warm this winter!
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Go ahead, add some more! The Christmas season is a time of giving, the more the merrier!
