Welcome to the Edit Your Life podcast. I'm Christine Co.

And I'm Asha Dornfest, and we're here to help you edit the unnecessary from your life so you have more room to enjoy the awesome.

We share practical ways to declutter your home schedule and mental space without getting bogged down by perfection.

And we believe that baby steps are the key to getting there.

Good morning, Asha. How are you?

I'm fine. How are you?

I'm good. I'm good. I think this is going to be such a fun episode today as we all orient ourselves to the reality

of the holidays and, oh my goodness, December, like what is what is even happening?

Yeah.

Yeah.

So I love that you had this idea.

We're going to talk about holiday gift giving with some specific ideas and some general reframes. And I think I'm especially

tuned to this because I just finished a CNN piece about gift giving and intentional consumerism.

So it'll probably be live by the time this episode. No, it definitely will be live by the time this

episode goes live. So I will link it in the show notes. But yeah, I'm fired up.

You know, it's funny when we, you know, we got on our, you know, recording session today. And I

just thought to myself, ah, it's so nice to just like think about delightful things and

think about the people I love and, and think about gift giving, you know, I mean, it's just,

I'm, it's nice to shift my attention from the hard stuff that I seem to be thinking about a lot

these days because of life, you know, and to just really think about that.

But I think the reality is that gift giving, it just feels a little different this year.

I think in some ways, the fact that COVID continues to disrupt our sort of experience of the holidays, I think, you know, we experienced it last year and the fact that we're still experiencing

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