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Your last point, about the cheap plastic and marketing ploys, etc., is valid. One step you can, and perhaps should, take is to make it a mall-free Christmas. Buy from stores that sell work from local artists. I don't know or care where you are, but the odds are excellent that you are near local artists, who need the money and the recognition. I cannot imagine buying a video game for a child, or a cheap plastic anything for anyone for Christmas. Avoiding the crowds is not that hard. Seek out the small shops. They need your help.
That won't cure everything you've brought up but it will make a big dent.
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