Recycled handbags

In my family, if you even mention Christmas before Thanksgiving, you are personally offending Santa and all that is good in the world. So I was very confused as a kid when stores would bring out the holiday decorations soon after Halloween - plus, I went to a very liberal-minded school, so I was always looking around for the Kwanzaa and Hanukkah decorations. Anyways, this year it seemed like they brought out the decorations even earlier - For example, Santa Claus visited our own Meriden Mall in early November (my mom would have had a thing or two to say to him). But, the frantic buying spirit is infectious - so when I found this green shopping website (www.evo.com) I would I would pass along the good news to you hippie-purchasers out there. The best item on the site, hands down, was the wickedly expensive solar backpack (see below).



WIth this backpack, you can use solar energy to charge your ipod, cell phone, ect. I am sure that this is exactly what a special someone out there desperately needs.

There are a number of other bags on the site which are green in a completely different way - by using recycled materials (candy wrappers, tire materials, old sails). They look pretty cool - check it out:




I particularly like the one that says, "Save the North Pole." Cute.