Happy Holiday Shopping - NOT! - MommaLibrarian's Commonplaces

Commonplace books (or commonplaces) are a way to compile knowledge, usually by writing information into books. They were journals but mostly scrapbooks of ideas, things observed, and things to remember. By the 1600s, commonplacing had become a recognized practice that was formally taught to college students in such institutions as Oxford. Beautiful blank books are still available for this purpose but the internet is so much more interesting as the content is shared.

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11/15/2012

Happy Holiday Shopping - NOT!

Thanks Ms. Flamingo Dancer for linking to this video

Hopefully it will help you put the brakes on some of this

and this

Sometimes too much is too much

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Tags: black Friday, Christmas, consumer, consumption, environment, greed, happiness, holiday, joy, over-consumption, pollution, presents, shop, surfeit, too much, tree, values, waste

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11/15/2012

Happy Holiday Shopping - NOT!

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