Six Great Ethical Gift Ideas for the Home This Christmas
Six Perfect Gifts for an Ethical Home in Glasgow and Dunoon
As ethical agents, we like to do good and spread the load wherever we can. With Christmas just around the corner, our team here at Scottish Property Centre have come up with some ethical home gift ideas for your pressie list.
1. A forest (or if you can’t manage a forest, a single living tree)
Trees do amazing things for the planet, for wildlife and for us.
If your friend or relative doesn’t have room for a real tree, then arrange to plant a tree in a forest for them instead.
The National Trust offers tree gifting from as little as a tenner and will send you a gift certificate too.
2. A hamper of ethical goodies
Put together a hamper of sustainable, organic or fairtrade goodies to suit the person you’re giving to.
Beeswax or soy candles, natural air fresheners, soaps and bath soaks make great home stocking fillers.
Maybe stretch the home theme a little with some seasonal food and drink.
Things we’d love to receive (hint, hint for our MD): Fairtrade choccy, locally sourced honey, home-made preserves, real farm cheeses or a nice bottle or three of organic wine. (Make ours a Merlot.)
3. Something solar
Solar-powered products help reduce carbon emissions. Better still, they appeal to the Scrooge in us by saving on electricity bills and on buying batteries.
Some nifty solar gift ideas include: solar lights, a solar fan for summer, a solar phone charger, solar home CCTV, and a solar clock or watch.
4. A box of weeds (yep, weeds, hear us out here)
Or to give them their posh name, rewilding boxes.
Rewilding boxes include native and wildflower seeds to sow in the garden, terrace planters, and window boxes. Not only do they add a splash of spring and summer colour, but they’re great for the birds, the bees and the butterflies, too.
You can buy purpose-made rewilding seed boxes online. Or pick up a selection of packet seeds at any garden centre.
Good choices are borage, thyme, crazy daisy, nigella, cornflower, foxglove and poppy seeds.
5. A class or experience
It’s an ethical gift that lasts a lifetime.
Gifting a class or experience helps your recipient learn a useful skill. One that can make their life more sustainable and healthier, reduce stress, and help them save cash too.
Look for classes and experiences in home DIY, soft furnishings, clothes making, arts and crafts, cookery or gardening.
6. Good old gift vouchers
Soz to be a bit boring with this last one. But gift vouchers are THE ultimate ethical gift.
A gift voucher means your friend or relative can spend the money on exactly what they want or need for their home. Much better than receiving something they don’t wish to, which gets stuck in a drawer or, worse still, binned.
If you haven’t started your Christmas shopping yet, it’s time to get your skates on.
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There is another way.
We are proud members of the Ethical Agent Network (EAN).
A national group of independent agents who have been independently tested to ensure we meet strict standards of honesty, service, professionalism and community care.
To find out more about what we do and why we passed the EAN and are the only local agency in the network, contact us today.
Scottish Property Centre have branches in Dunoon, Cardonald and Shawlands covering the Argyll and Glasgow property markets. We have local experts serving local people.
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