Valentines day….yuck. I don't do romantic and I don't do squishy (a Carlyism for hearts, flowers and all that mush). It is all rather nausea inducing and cringeworthy. But I do have a husband and I do get him a gift, because he is a bit squishy and he can be counted on to give me a present.
This year I thought long and hard about what to get, I didn't want to get him more stuff that he doesn't need just for the sake of it. He is a simple and easy going soul who doesn't need much of anything to be happy, which is particularly tricky when presents are generally lot's of nothing, stuff that is frivolous and unnecessary.
I decided to get him a tree, a fruit tree, a mandarin, to be exact. Something that is useful, clean and green and actually produces yumminess and oxygen even. Then I took that thought one step further and decided that hey, I could always gift a tree or a plant, imagine how much less stuff that would be in my little world. Less packaging, teeny tiny carbon footprint and environmentally wonderful and pretty. Heck,why not get crazy and extend that thought to its idealistic limit, imagine if everybody did that. Now that would be cool, gardens would abound and green fingers would touch us all.
But I'll stop getting carried away now, because goodness knows I can and look at it as it is, a tree, a change and one less box of chocolates or red boxer shorts or whatever the heck squishy romantic people buy on Valentines day. Change #3….the unsquishy gift.
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