Today is all about mindful gifting. Listen to this before Black Friday hits! It’s almost impossible to think about Christmas without thinking about presents, and I know it’s still early, but starting to think about mindful gifting now can save us stress, save us money, help us give things that will genuinely bring joy, and give us time to enjoy the process of dreaming up ideas, making or buying, wrapping them and delivering them in good time.

This episode includes:

• Why being more mindful about gifting at Christmas can be good for our mental health as well as our wallets
• What kind of conversations to have now to make gifting easier and more joyful
• What we are doing in my house to spend less but bring more joy
• My three gifting guideposts (they will save you wasting your precious money on presents that people don’t actually want)
• The joy of advent calendars
• Nature corner
• Christmas traditions from around the world (from lovely listeners!)
• A great recipe from Mark Diacono that makes a fab gift + my own homemade granola recipe (back by popular demand!)
• A fab giveaway worth £700 (enter on my Instagram @bethkempton)

With inspiration from:

@ ArounnaKhounnoraj @countrylivinguk @noor_unnahar @emilysilva @Mark Diacono @editbyemily (Emily Dawe)

Lovely things for you:

·      The FREE Calm Christmas Planner (a little book of festive printables which includes my unusual but highly effective approach to budgeting, plus tons of mindful gift ideas)

·      My Winter Writing Sanctuary 10-day FREE online writing class 

Beth Xx

PS See the full show notes here for recipe ingredients etc. If you are worried about money call the National Debtline in the UK on 0808 808 4000 or seek out a similar organisation in your country.

Featured in this episode:

• Winter Celebrations by Arounna Khounnoraj (Quadrille) 
• Country Living Country Christmas by Francine Lawrence (Editor) (Ebury) 
• [List of Everything I Want by Noor Unnahar in New Names for Lost Things by Noor Unnahar (Andrews McMeel) 
• Sunrise Gratitude by Emily Silva (Rock Point) 
• Paper Christmas by Emily Dawe (Search Press) 
• Spice: A cook’s companion by Mark Diacono (Quadrille) 
• Calm Christmas and a Happy New Year: A Little Book of Festive Joy by Beth Kempton (Piatkus) 

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