Less Stuff More Heart Finke Summary
You are sitting in your warm house on christmas morning with the excitement of seeing all the presents under your beautifully lit tree, what your not thinking about is that somewhere in the world at the same time there is a little girl sitting in her small, cramped two room house that she shares with her big family of six. While you are opening your all your extravagant gifts, your mom is preparing the feast for christmas dinner, the little girl your not thinking about is cold, and hungry, her parents only make enough money to afford the bare minimum, only the necessities. You are dreaming of the gifts you have received on this overly commercialized holiday while the girl is thinking about how she wishes her parents had enough money so she
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......., talks about the holidays and how he wants his new son to grow up knowing that Christmas isn’t about the presents but about giving. ………. makes an unusual Christmas list, rather than the normal material things we fill out lists with every year, he created a christmas list of five non-material items that he wanted for the holidays. Finke believes that material gifts accumulate on shelves, get broken, lost, and forgotten about, while non-material gifts are more memorable, meaningful, and last longer. My views are similar to Finkes because I have gotten people material gifts and non-material gifts and the non-material gifts always last longer and are more meaningful. A few years ago I spent a lot of time looking for the perfect gift for my mom and I bought her a very expensive mother’s ring with all her kids birthstones and when she first got it she loved it, but once the excitement wore off and the holiday spirit left, she removed the ring and placed it on a shelf when it still sit today, years later. Another Christmas I paid for me and my mom to take an art class together for fun because we both like art a lot and that experience and one on one time is still appreciated today and the fun time we had is still talked about even though it is a few years later. These are the experiences that helped shape my opinion about non-material
......., talks about the holidays and how he wants his new son to grow up knowing that Christmas isn’t about the presents but about giving. ………. makes an unusual Christmas list, rather than the normal material things we fill out lists with every year, he created a christmas list of five non-material items that he wanted for the holidays. Finke believes that material gifts accumulate on shelves, get broken, lost, and forgotten about, while non-material gifts are more memorable, meaningful, and last longer. My views are similar to Finkes because I have gotten people material gifts and non-material gifts and the non-material gifts always last longer and are more meaningful. A few years ago I spent a lot of time looking for the perfect gift for my mom and I bought her a very expensive mother’s ring with all her kids birthstones and when she first got it she loved it, but once the excitement wore off and the holiday spirit left, she removed the ring and placed it on a shelf when it still sit today, years later. Another Christmas I paid for me and my mom to take an art class together for fun because we both like art a lot and that experience and one on one time is still appreciated today and the fun time we had is still talked about even though it is a few years later. These are the experiences that helped shape my opinion about non-material