Santa takes a political stand.

This is a picture of my living room after “the holidays” last year.  Seriously.
 
image via green.thefuntimesguide.com

Not this year.  Nope, not gonna do it.  All due to Santa’s new “Committee on the Environment”.  That’s right, it’s all very bureaucratic, and there is a lot of bickering across party lines, but they managed to get at least something passed before the holiday recess.  The new pilot program is as follows.  If you put a stack of reusable bags next to the cookies and milk on Christmas Eve, presents from Santa will hence forth be delivered in said bags.  The efficacy of this program and it’s impact on the deficit will be up for review in 2015, but by then my kids will have outgrown it so I don’t care. So, in order to appeal to the public’s overwhelming support for a green option, Scavenger Home is now carrying Living Ethos Gift Bags.  Amazing patterns and colors for year round giving, ribbons made of recycled pop bottles (yeah, I say POP, what do you say?) and 4 sizes, to fit jewelry, wine, a new phone and a yummy, fuzzy, but NOT terry, robe.  Or, I guess other things of those approximate sizes, if you and I don’t have the exact same Christmas list. And in my usual fashion of being totally timely, I will mention that for those of us that do give gifts all 8 nights of Chanukah, might I recommend using the same bag every night!  I swear it’s brilliant, just throw a little something in the bag before you light the candles, and voila, your the Jewish equivalent of Martha.