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n.So, if your friend is a hard-working single parent who hardly ever goes out because she can’t afford a babysitter, you could give her some vouchers promising that you’ll look after her children free of charge.Whenever she’s invited out for the evening, she’ll be able to accept the invitation because she knows she can count on you being her babysitter. By giving her your time and skills, you’ll be giving her something much more valuable than a traditional Christmas gift.Another way you can give your time at Christmas is by volunteering. Choose a charity you’d like to support and ask how you could help over the holiday period.Ask other members of your family if they’d also like to volunteer, so you spend time together whilst helping others. If you replace at least a few hours of Christmas shopping with volunteering, you’ll feel a greater sense of satisfaction and Christmas cheer.<h2 id="0836">Focus on the Important Things in Life</h2>Celebrating a minimalist Christmas doesn’t mean you’ll have a miserable Christmas. Instead, your focus will be on what’s truly important - spending quality time with your family and creating memories that will last a lifetime.Christmas is about much more than frantic shopping, giving and receiving piles of presents, and eating and drinking until your stomach aches.It’s a time for the whole family to enjoy each other’s company.It’s a time to relax and spend quality time together.You don’t need lots of gifts and decorations to do that.In fact, a lot of material things can take your attention away from what is truly important.Focus on creating a thoughtful, memorable and minimalist Christmas for the whole of your family this year.</article></body>

Celebrate a Minimalist Christmas in 3 Easy Steps

Focus on the important things in life this year

“Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.”

These words, spoken by the Chinese philosopher, Lao Tzu, in the sixth century BC, encapsulate the minimalist philosophy of life.

We all know how difficult it can be to be a minimalist at Christmas, when everyone is shopping frantically and giving one another stacks of gifts.

Here are three small steps you can take to celebrate a minimalist Christmas this year.

1. Keep Christmas Decorations to a Minimum

Do you really need to decorate and light up the whole of your house with plastic Santas, reindeer, snowmen, and other decorations? Do you really need to cover every available space inside your home with tinsel, Christmas trees, baubles and other seasonal items?

Instead of cluttering up your home with decorations, decide on a simple color scheme that fits in with the décor in your living room. Choose a few of your favorite decorations in those colors and place them in strategic positions where people can admire them.

If you don’t have enough decorations that fit in with your Christmas color scheme, spend some time making a few well-chosen items. Look online, in books or in craft magazines and choose several decorations that are easy to make.

Look for projects that make good use of materials you already have at home. Be inventive and adapt instructions to your own tastes.

2. Plan Activities the Whole Family Will Enjoy

Instead of eating excessively and slumping in front of the television for the whole of the holiday, plan at least one activity per day for the whole family to enjoy together.

This could be:

Going for a walk
Going ice skating
Making cookies
Playing a board game
Doing a jigsaw together
Going to see a Christmas movie.

If you’ve spent less on Christmas presents this year, spend some of the money you’ve saved on Christmas activities.

If you choose activities that each member of the family will enjoy, you’ll make the most of your time together and create some wonderful memories that will last a lifetime.

3. Give Gifts of Your Time and Skills

If you’ve already cleared the clutter from your home, you’ll be reluctant to receive lots of gifts you don’t need at Christmas.

You may also be reluctant to give consumer goods to others who may not want or need them. You know that your gifts will add to the many layers of clutter already in their homes.

Why not give your time and skills instead? One way of doing this is to make and give personalized gift certificate vouchers.

Gift certificate vouchers give gifts of your time and skills throughout the year, with the recipients using them whenever they want. To create personalized gift certificate vouchers for your friends and family members, either download and personalize templates or design your own.

So, if your friend is a hard-working single parent who hardly ever goes out because she can’t afford a babysitter, you could give her some vouchers promising that you’ll look after her children free of charge.

Whenever she’s invited out for the evening, she’ll be able to accept the invitation because she knows she can count on you being her babysitter. By giving her your time and skills, you’ll be giving her something much more valuable than a traditional Christmas gift.

Another way you can give your time at Christmas is by volunteering. Choose a charity you’d like to support and ask how you could help over the holiday period.

Ask other members of your family if they’d also like to volunteer, so you spend time together whilst helping others. If you replace at least a few hours of Christmas shopping with volunteering, you’ll feel a greater sense of satisfaction and Christmas cheer.

Focus on the Important Things in Life

Celebrating a minimalist Christmas doesn’t mean you’ll have a miserable Christmas. Instead, your focus will be on what’s truly important - spending quality time with your family and creating memories that will last a lifetime.

Christmas is about much more than frantic shopping, giving and receiving piles of presents, and eating and drinking until your stomach aches.

It’s a time for the whole family to enjoy each other’s company.

It’s a time to relax and spend quality time together.

You don’t need lots of gifts and decorations to do that.

In fact, a lot of material things can take your attention away from what is truly important.

Focus on creating a thoughtful, memorable and minimalist Christmas for the whole of your family this year.