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	<title>Living a Simple Life &#187; Christmas</title>
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		<title>Giving &amp; Receiving Useful Gifts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Christmas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got a Poulan Pro 18-inch 42cc gas-powered, chainsaw for Christmas. It's the kind in this chainsaw comparison. Along with it I was given some stocking stuffers like work gloves, ear plugs and some smaller gifts like a book on chainsaw maintenance and helmet with a face shield for cutting wood. I gave my wife, among other things, several sewing and kitting books, some contraption that helps her ball up hand-spun yarn, some wool... Next year she might get an actual spinning wheel, but the darned things cost over $400 new so she's fine with a drop spindle for now.

The thing that bothers a lot of us simple-life enthusiasts about Christmas is the compulsive consumerism it fosters. But for us it isn't so much the tradition of buying gifts for friends and family - because there's something special about giving, after all - as it is about the TYPES of gifts we used to give and receive.]]></description>
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