Topic: Presents

Is It Ethical For Bloggers To Sell Their Free Gifts?

Is It Ethical For Bloggers To Sell Their Free Gifts?

As bloggers, we get a fair amount of free stuff from companies and the publicists who represent them. This is both common knowledge and common practice in the industry, as it allows writers to see new products and figure out whether or not we should recommend them to readers, as well as giving the businesses a better chance at exposure. So is the idea of us selling those free gifts ethical? More »

The Post-Christmas Cleanup Ritual

The Post-Christmas Cleanup Ritual

My husband and I have rather large and generous families. Our wonderful families made the holidays fun and loving and extremely special. They also spoiled my child rotten. Brenna had 4 full Christmases with more than 10 gifts at each. She also received gifts from 2 Christmas exchanges we couldn’t make it to. Honestly, her bedroom resembles a Toys’R'Us Express. She received so many presents, that by the end, she wasn’t even paying attention to them. She was just blindly ripping away wrapping paper and exclaiming the name of whatever cartoon character she saw on the box. It didn’t matter how slow we took it, how many play breaks we took. She had past her toy intake. So how does your child recover from this plastic gluttony? I have a few steps that might help your child resume to normal materialistic levels. More »