Grandma’s Gifts Need Extra Reindeer

Christmas, one of the most daft and delightful holidays, is a waste massacre for some parents of young children. Read this insightful article from the New York Times on managing family gift giving to find out how some are coping:

Online message boards are filled with pleas from exasperated parents seeking advice on managing the endless influx of toys, and preventing what they see as the dual tragedies of creating waste — financial and environmental — and raising spoiled brats…

Shoppers are able to “buy a lot of toys for not a lot of money,”…which has created “a crisis of overabundance.” And one result is that parents often feel tyrannized by their children’s toys, because “they have to spend so much time managing them, cleaning them and organizing them, instead of spending time on what matters most.”