Mike's top five

Yesterday was Buy Nothing Day - a day to fight against the crass commercialism that has become Christmas - sponsored by people who sell instructions and patterns for homemade gifts no doubt. The idea is to encourage people to make this a "Homemade Christmas" instead of filling the house with expensive gifts. Mike's top five signs it’s a homemade Christmas at your house.
#5. Your mom just asked you which of the favorite sweaters you'd most like to have bedazzled.
#4. You wake up and hear Dolly Parton singing something about hard candies.
#3. Two days before Christmas Grampa asked you what your favourite barn animal is.
#2. Soon you're going to realize, asking Santa for a Wii takes on a whole new meaning when it’s a homemade Christmas.
#1. In a hiding place in the basement, you stumble upon what you expect is the new Call of Duty X-Box 360 game, but turns out to be a bag of mulling spices, potpourri, a glue gun and 15 yards of corduroy!