Merry Christmas – Fröhliche Weihnachten!

24th Dec and end of my Eco-Adventskalender suggestions: I wish everyone a Merry Christmas! Preferrably eco-friendly …

In our case with a local Christmas tree from Freising, bought at Odeonsplatz – the person who’s selling them is also the farmer who grows them! He’s in the business for 40 years – and we transported the tree to our home in our Nihola cargo bike. Bee wax candles (to avoid paraffin wax), glass „Weihnachtskugeln“ which are reused every year, glass/crystal, straw stars, a few wooden things. Below the presents – all wrapped in re-usable Christmas paper bags (which we got and collected over the past years) and some items are wrapped in fabrics or self-made bags made out of fabrics. We managed to down-size the number of presents in the past years and keep it now stable. Not an easy task nowadays…. (The Story of Stuff ...). The tree will stay in our room until Jan 6th, and afterwards everything will be stored for next year We will cut the tree then and use it as protective layer for our flowers on our balconies. Re-use … and then it’ll end up in the brown Biomülltonne after March/April to be processed as „Münchner Blumenerde“ re-cyle …

PS: A few days are missing in my „Eco Adventskalender“ due to „no-time-for-FB“, but I’ll finish the calender.