The Society For The Prevention Of Useless Giving Tried To Get Americans Out Of All That Holiday Shopping

Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
16/12/2025 3 min Temporada 7 Episodio 1568

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A little over a century ago, a group of women, fed up with the overly commercial side of Christmas, formed the Society for the Prevention of Useless Giving, or SPUG. And they made a pretty big splash along the way. Plus: today in 1773, the Boston Tea Party, though it was known by a slightly wordier name in its time. Only You Can Prevent Useless Gifts (JSTOR)The Destruction of the Tea (Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum) You don’t have to turn in your Spug button to back our show on Patreon, because it’s very practical

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