Our church is participating in the Advent Conspiracy this year. Today we watched a video which revealed a couple of disturbing facts.
1. Americans spend $450 billion a year on Christmas gifts. That's $450,000,000,000.00
2. The world water crisis could be resolved (which means all people could have access to clean drinking water) with $10 billion. That's $10,000,000,000.00
Think about that for a minute.
If America gave away 2.2% of its Christmas gift money away, every person in the world would have clean drinking water. Every person.
Now, I haven't checked the first fact, so I can't verify it. But I have done research on clean drinking water, and I can tell you, $10 billion sounds about right. So, family members, are you interested in cutting back on gifts this year? NOT on gifts for the boys, because they are young and should get ridiculously awesome gifts. Just on gifts to each other. What do you think?
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I think your suggestion has great merit. I had been thinking about suggesting a more modest Christmas this year with the financial situation being so bad for so many people. Of course, the boys get exempted! What about the rest of our family?
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