… extra nice to shop elves!

While Christmas shopping I’ve seen lots of other nice and patient customers. But also some very… impatient* ones!

I met one shop assistant with a massive cold who needed to be at home in bed, but she powered through and was very nice (and sniffly).

So I’ve decided to be EXTRA nice to shop assistents this year. I hope I’m always friendly, but this week I went all out with smiles, “no worries, I’ll wrap it myself”s, “I don’t need a bag, thanks”s and “Merry Christmas!”s.

I’ve had student jobs in shops, but mainly cafés/food places and never in retail around Christmas. So I don’t know the struggle, but I still know that those friendly faces in the busy crowd means a lot!

Thrift your gifts

(OMG did I just make that rhyme for the first time ever? Probably not, But I love it)

Since I’m already telling you what to do in this post (don’t know why that’s my thing, apparently I get preachy around the holidays), here’s another thing:

Remember that secondhand or homemade things make great gifts! I talked about shopping a lot in this post, but in reality most of the places I’ve been Christmas shopping were thrift shops and the craft store. Trying to buy less new things has been a fun challenge to me.

Now I just have some (a lot) of DIY’ing to do. Actually writing this post in the middle of a giant, cute, creative mess of paper, fabric and other stuff 😀

Wrap your crap (yourself)

(yup, I rhymed again)

As a bonus for reading alllll the way through my babbling, here’s a video recommendation :

TheSorryGirls: Eco-friendly gift wrapping ideas you should be using this year

Definitely check it out, TheSorryGirls make really great DIY videos.

And I got really inspired to try some more sustainable gift wrap solutions that also look cute.

*rude. They were rude.