5H: Share your voice

Every morning, I wake up to notifications of new 5H friends and followers, and I delight to see where in the world they are, and to attempt to figure out how they might have heard about my 5H Giving efforts.

Just yesterday, I got an email via this website from Kim Todd of thegreenrock.ca to tell me that she'd been pointed to 5H Giving by a mutual friend, Martha Muzychka, and she'd been inspired to write about it. In her fabulous blog post, Kim ties her ‪#‎g2kgtg‬ efforts to the 5H philosophy.

Good to know gifts that give (#g2kgtg) is a special project of thegreenrock.ca that looks at local gifts that people will like, use, and that won’t leave an unnecessarily big footprint on the planet or humankind.

I particularly like how Kim explains and expands on my original 5H post, using wonderful examples for her local Newfoundland audience. 

That gave me an idea. Would you be game to define the 5H's using examples that are meaningful to you and where you come from, be that physically and/or emotionally? 

If you share with me, I'll share with the rest of our 5H followers, via this blog, Facebook and Twitter. 

5H has followers/friends/supporters all over the world now, so it will be great to hear whose voices chime in. Consider yourself invited! 

You can respond here, or email me at blog@winestains.ca. 

Adding a 6th H to "5H Giving" - Habit

Today, I want to introduce another H - Habit. We all need to consider the 5Hs all year round, whenever gift-giving opportunities arise. Thinking in terms of Homemade, Handmade, Healthy, Helpful and From Here needs to become our Habit.

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Get the H back in the Holidays!

Updated on Wednesday, December 5, 2012 at 2:00PM by Winestains

I realized that I’ve been slowly but steadily moving towards streamlining my gift-giving around a certain set of values. And this morning, in a flash, I realized that there was a really easy, and memorable, way to express it. I call it my 5H Code of Holiday (and year-round) Giving. Homemade, Handmade, Healthy, Helpful and from Here.

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