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SuperLife with Darin Olien

Holiday Gifts | Fatal Conveniences™

SuperLife with Darin Olien

Darin Olien

Education, Alternative Health, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Everyone loves giving and receiving gifts over the holiday season. But do we take it too far? Is all this excessive spending necessary? The truth is, what started as a well-intended tradition evolved into a marketing ploy by the wealthy. There's so much pressure to spend over the holiday season, but are you buying those gifts with the person in mind or just to fulfill an imaginary quota in your head? Let's work on more conscious gift giving this year.

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0:00.0

It's that time of the week for another fatal convenience.

0:06.1

This is a bite-sized segment that addresses some of society's fatal conveniences, and

0:12.0

the steps you can take to avoid becoming a victim of them.

0:16.7

I define fatal conveniences as the things we may be doing because the world we live in

0:23.1

makes us believe we have to.

0:26.3

Water, shampoo, sunglasses, food, I dive into the hidden truths behind some of our everyday

0:33.0

choices that could not only be harming us, but even killing us.

0:38.8

So let's dive in.

0:40.1

Hey everybody, welcome to the show Happy Holidays as we're cruising into the holidays.

0:46.4

We are keeping with the theme here at Fatal Convenience.

0:49.9

We are bringing about more consciousness around the holidays, and this one is the fatal

0:56.7

convenience of Christmas gifts or holiday gifts in general.

1:02.6

So it's very interesting, on the one hand, from a Christmas perspective, the gifting came

1:09.3

by way of centered around community giving to the less fortunate.

1:14.8

That's what we want to believe, right?

1:16.4

So there's a underpinning of that that's there, but also there's this guilt, there's

1:22.2

this whole Santa, St. Nick decorating trees, all of that stuff.

1:28.5

Well, of course, that running around the tree was rooted in the paganism, and of course,

1:33.0

we talked about that when we were talking about the actual Christmas tree that was linked

1:37.9

to that paganism, but then was Queen Victoria, and her German husband basically brought

1:44.4

that to Europe and made it okay to do.

1:47.8

Well, listen, I'm going to cruise through this very fast, but this is interesting.

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