Christmas Wrapping
By: Bonjour De Coeur
Tags: Wrapping Paper, Christmas, Zero Waste, Sustainability, Gifts

The waitresses

How many candles, holidays cards, or gifts do you need?

I think I felt the earth this Christmas.

Scandanavia is clean and nice but thanks to Trump and all sorts of other disgusting machist puppets, chemicals are dumped all over, her face, her body, her soul.

I realized the reason for my chronic discomfort in the state of Illinois is simply how unsustainable it is. Things have been pushed so far that I literally reason to myself…

“I have to buy stock in the most extraordinary of the evil companies to have a say in them.”

One thing I am working on is if you are in a fascist place and you’re set to pay for something, do you say thank you?

Politeness feels so tired when businesses are so evil.

I remember on Thanksgiving I ate a bunch of turkey and the next day I had a colossal headache, just like a hangover.

My personal opinion was that at one of those there charnel houses made for turkeys must not have been enough water. I felt the dehydration of the turkey. Which brings me to my next point, what is cool or fun about mass producing turkeys, or hams, or any livestock animal?

There was one turkey at the original “Thanksgiving,” why not keep it at that. Does everyone need to get an Oscar-Meyer turkey? I get it, Chicago, you had that whole pig slaughter wheel in 1899, I heard the squeals of the pigs in the documentary City of the Century, over and over again, and you know what I actually did not want to eat meat at all after seeing industrial scale hog slaughtering.

Did we have to go and kill 46 million turkeys this year? Was that really strictly necessary?

That’s sort of how I feel about Christmas, I have plenty, of gifts to share, how about you?

“Every year during the Christmas season, millions of factory farmed animals are killed and served as part of holiday meals. Tens of millions of turkeys will be killed to meet Christmas demand, along with ducks, geese, pigs, lambs and chickens. The vast majority will suffer miserable, short lives in factory farms, where the object is to mass produce and fatten them as rapidly as possible; all will endure a violent and painful slaughterhouse death.”

The mass consumption element of Christmas, like I said, gives me this earth feel. Christmas isn’t sustainable. There is no need to kill 50 million pigs, ducks, and turkeys, and trees (between “Christmas trees killed” another 33 million trees are required for Holidays cards, and then some for packaging and wrapping paper)!

One thing that scared me was seeing beautiful wrapping paper in a garbage bag. I remember all the Christmases past and garbage bags full of ribbons and bows and gorgeous wrappings. Garbage is the most existentially terrifying thing I feel.

I wish in the same lesson where I learned to make a Native American vest from a paper grocery bag someone told me to harvest all the wrappings each & every Christmas from the age of 4–5 years so I’d have a lifetime supply of cool, vintage gift papers to use forever.

At 32 it’s hard to wake up and wonder goodness what fine gift wrappings, and where did the others from the 2000s and nineteen-nineties ever go now? The trash? Ow! Reality bites. I wanna go back to sleep.