The Digital Holiday: Benefits of Digital Holiday Cards
Holiday cards are a tradition as old, well, postal services. And in an era before Facebook and the internet in general, they were an important way for families and communities to stay connected. For people who didn’t get to see friends and family often, they were a way to ensure that at least once a year pictures and stories of each other’s lives were shared. And, of course, they were a way to [...]
The Best Postconsumers Articles of the Year
Perhaps it’s a bit of a pat on our own back, but we like to end the year each year by revisiting our favorite articles, lists and memes for the year. Perhaps you’ve missed something that we consider our best of the best for the year, and we want to point you to it. Or, alternatively, we think this is a great exercise for reflecting back on what we did this year and [...]
Five Very Postconsumers Christmas Carols
Many, many years ago, we created a Postconsumers version of ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas. We still love it to this day! In celebration of this season, we’ve transformed five more Christmas classics to help draw attention to the unfortunate consumer focus of the holiday season. Don’t take these as a “downer” on the season! Rather take them as they are intended, as a gentle (and we think fun) reminder to stay focused [...]
Holiday Inspirations for the “Anti-Stuff” Inclined: A Very Postconsumers Joy to the World
Joy to the World! The “Stuff” is Wrapped! Let Earth receive the waste. Let the storage unit prepare some room To add another “thing” To add another “thing” To add, to add another “thing” Find More Ecofriendly and Consumer-Conscious Holiday Resources at Postconsumers All Holiday Content #BetterThanBlackFriday Resources Holiday Quote Hub A Very Postconsumers 'Twas the Night Before Christmas Get More Holiday Inspirations on the Social Media Channels Below Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Tumblr | Pinterest | Google+ | Medium
Tips for Making Your Office Holiday Party Eco-Friendly and Consumer Conscious
As the holidays roll in, offices and work teams across the nation (and for that matter the world) will begin the annual tradition of office holiday parties. We’re obviously pro-party. Work friends become your work family and it’s always nice to celebrate with friends, family and even that co-worker you can’t stand. But just because you’re in charge of the office holiday party this year, it doesn’t mean that you can’t change up [...]
Beware the Gift Card This Holiday Season!
Stop what you’re doing right now. Take a look at your holiday gift list. All of your holiday gift list including secret Santa scenarios and office swaps. Now realistically ask yourself how many people on that list you’re planning to buy gift cards for. Chances are it’s more than a few. Particularly for people who are hard to buy for or who seem to have “everything,” the gift card is a great option. [...]
Five Eco-Friendly Secret Santa Ideas
It’s that time of year again. That time when, unless you want to be labeled the office Scrooge, you will have to participate in your office, workplace or social circle’s Secret Santa activity. Perhaps you love the holidays and you immediately get excited about the opportunity to play Secret Santa to somebody. Perhaps, like most Americans, in many of these situations you secretly dread having to buy a gift for somebody you barely [...]
The Risks of Cyber Monday Shopping
We’ve devoted tons of page space in encouraging you to avoid Black Friday shopping and giving you tips on how to successfully do that. But we’ve only talked in passing about Cyber Monday. That officially makes us out-of-date, because in recent years the sales numbers for Cyber Monday have outpaced those of Black Friday. If we are being honest with you, and if you’ve been reading our blog for any amount of time [...]
The Postconsumers Annual Thankful List: 2016 Edition
We love our annual tradition of reviewing what we’re thankful for each year. We love the opportunity to look back and see what we were thankful for in years past (which you can do for our lists from 2015, 2014, 2013 and 2011). But primarily we love having the opportunity to take time annually to reflect on what we’re grateful for during the course of any given year. We know that often we, [...]
The Pros and Cons of Small Business Saturday
The philosophy of Postconsumers is not that we have to give up consumerism and shopping and live in a treehouse somewhere (though we think that you are an awesome and interesting individual if you do)! We advocate mindful consumerism that includes knowledge of the societal ill of addictive consumerism, controls decision making rather than being manipulated by the media machine and advocates for ethical consumerism. With all of that said, we obviously advocate [...]
