Since Amazon sold 1 billion items last holiday season, it’s safe to assume that many of you will be doing some of your Christmas shopping with the online retailer. But did you know that you can do some good for charity while buying gifts from Amazon?
With AmazonSmile, you can easily and automatically support your favourite charitable organization whenever you shop—for no additional cost. By visiting smile.amazon.com to make your purchases, you’ll find the same products, prices, and shopping experience, but with the extra benefit that Amazon will donate half a percent of your purchase price to the charity of your choice. When it comes to charitable giving, it really doesn’t get any easier!
Using your existing Amazon account, simply visit AmazonSmile and then select the charity that will receive the donations from your purchases. There are nearly one million organizations participating in the program, including the vast majority of charities that we have featured here on the Elf Blog, such as St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. There are also plenty of small and regional organizations to choose from, such as Basset Hound Rescue of Georgia or the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank.
In total so far all charities have received more than $62 million (!) just from folks shopping on Amazon, which they would be doing anyways. And if you want to start using AmazonSmile, but you’re worried you won’t remember to start at smile.amazon.com, you can add a bookmark to your browser or you could install the Amazon Assistant.
Whether you’re finishing up with your Christmas purchases or just getting started, consider shopping at smile.amazon.com to effortlessly give a little something extra [for free!] this holiday season.
Over the past few months, I have been reading the Harry Potter series again, so my eyes lit up when I came across this Christmas at the Burrow candle. As it’s the most welcoming and coziest home in the wizarding world, spending the holidays at the Burrow would be absolutely lovely. With the fragrance of sugar cookies, cinnamon, and vanilla, this hand poured soy candle surely captures the scents of Christmas with the Weasleys. Available as a 2 oz, 4 oz, or 8 oz candle or as a pack of half-ounce tarts.
It’s the best time of the year—the holiday season!
In a mere 5 weeks, Santa will be making his yearly trip around the world. This is a particularly busy time here at northpole.com as we get ready for the big day, and I’m sure all of you are working on your Christmas preparations as well. I do hope that you and your family will come visit our site regularly during the holidays. Besides all of the great stuff elsewhere on the site [such as lovely crafts, delicious recipes, letters to Santa, and gift ideas], we will be bringing you fun, festive content here on the Elf Blog every single day between now and Christmas.
If you love holiday events, are wondering where Raymond the reindeer travelled to this year, or simply need a daily dose of Christmas joy, the Elf Blog has you covered. All of us elves look forward to spending the holiday season with you and yours!
We hope that each and every one of you are having a fabulous Christmas. All of us up here at the North Pole are enjoying spending time together and eating lots of cookies.
We wanted to take this moment to say thanks to our corporate sponsors who have helped tremendously with the cost of developing and maintaining northpole.com. So, thank you very much to our Diamond Deck-the-Halls Sponsor, RTI, Inc., and our Platinum Poinsettia Sponsor, SimTrain! (Interested in sponsoring Northpole.com? Click here for more information.)
Also, thanks go out to YOU for spending part of your Christmas with us! We appreciate every single one of our visitors, and we are so happy that you came to visit Santa’s Secret Village. We do hope that you’ll spend part of next Christmas with us as well.
So, tell me… What was your favourite Christmas memory this year? Did you spend time with loved ones, try a new yummy recipe, go sledding with friends? Let us know in the comments!
Enjoy the rest of Christmas Day, and from all of us at northpole.com, we wish you a very happy and healthy 2017!
After the adorable, festive videos and photos I posted earlier today, I have bassets on the brain. Although—let’s be honest—when do I not? Of course I adore this sweet Christmas card featuring two basset hounds under the mistletoe. This card does leave me wondering one thing: When doggies meet up under the mistletoe, do they slurp or sniff each other?
