A Helpful (Mostly Green) Christmas Gift List

Sill struggling over gifts for future sisters-in-law?  New babies?  How about the guys?  If our new friends at Mr. Ellie Pooh couldn’t help you out with their generous 10% discount, then maybe I can give it a shot.  Here are some memorable and well-worshipped gifts that earn our family seal of approval.  Some are already under our tree again this year:

1. No nasty chemical lotion

I remember the first time I smelled this peach lotion.  Heaven!  Give it to someone you love, and she’ll forever remember her first time using Kiss My Face lotion, too.  We bought this Peaches N Creme one at a local shop (for a few bucks more-dang!).  The $8.54 lotion is natural and doesn’t have all those nasty chemicals I’m always protesting about to ya’ll.  We should have gotten two…

 

2. Sweet pine smell without the tree (or candle smoke)

Know anyone who decided to take the leap and go for the fake tree?  Chances are they got sick of the pine needles and sap, right?  Bring the pine smell back to their house for a mere $19.99 with a Mistletoe scented Yankee Candle product.  Our favorite is the Oil Reed Diffuser because there’s nothing like coming home from work to the scent of pine at Christmas.

 

3. Timeless entertainment – no batteries needed

Martin really got to know my family over this board game.  Ticket to Ride is our all-time favorite.  The hardest part about moving to Germany was the lack of this fun game (don’t even ask how many times we’ve played it since we got to the US a little bit ago).  For ages 8+, it’s $39.17, and it’s so totally going back to Germany with us.  It comes with several expansion packs, so it’s the gift that keeps on giving at our house.

 

4. American-made toys!

I wanted to find some “made in USA” toys this year.  A bit hard, but here’s what we dug up…

Wooden Little Engine that Could Train Set for $36.

7″ Organic Cotton Foundling Bunny for $19.99

 

5. Yummy lip stuff without the petroleum… or, you know, the nasty chemicals I run from

 

And last, our all-time favorite stocking stuffer.  Watch out world!  No, it’s only two non-petroleum based lip balms that we gladly tote to Germany: Alba Botanica Vanilla Lip Balm for $1.75 and Burt’s Bees for $1.95.  Yum!

So there you have it.  Our happy holiday classics.  

And just so you know, Amazon will give Making This Home a small percentage of any purchases you make by clicking from this page.  You could help me buy Martin some lip balm, which would be really nice.  We would be so ho-ho-happy.  (I know that sounds corny.  But we would.)  It would be my first paid writing gig!

And if not, good luck fighting those shopping crowds this weekend!