It’s not even November yet but I’ve been getting emails about Christmas shopping and party planning for at least two months already. Personally, I’m not religious so all the overt commercialism doesn’t spoil anything for me but even so it’s daunting, an ever present reminder that I need to start planning and cutting down on the money I spend on me so I have enough money to spend on presents and traditions.

I don’t mean to go all Scrooge here, I love the excuse to meet up with friends and loved ones and exchange gifts, etc, but the older I get the more I wish it didn’t have to be something we needed an excuse for – and especially not something we need bullying into by retailers, restaurants/whoever. About a third of the emails I’ve deleted this morning were christmas party/shopping related – all of them automated, of course.

I think the Atheist Bus (although Chris pointed out it’s actually an agnostic bus, because it says there is ‘probably no God’, rather than stating a definite) may have put me in this frame of mind but it’s probably also just because I’d quite like to spurge and spoil myself with some new winter boots – the veggie shoe quest continues and I’m tempted to go all out on some expensive stylish ones, maybe Stella McCartney, although her heels are a bit too high for me..

Any stylish but practical veggie boots you can recommend?