Ideal Bite

If your time's more abundant than cash these days, make an exodus to Local and Handmade Holidays, a daylong, all-ages workshop where you can - you guessed it - hand-make several gifts for under $50. Learn to hand-bind journals and assemble tree ornaments from recycled paper, then get up to your elbows in actual milk and honey by making soft cheese, beeswax candles, and bread using local products like milk from Windsor Dairy and wax from Madhava Honey. At the end of the day, you'll have five gifts (well, maybe just three: our bread and cheese probably won't make it home) - with plenty of money left over, all without buying stuff shipped from China (or the North Pole), so there's no CO2 emissions. Welcome to the promised land.