Celebratory excess marks the holiday season, with its freewheeling use of credit cards, mountains of new toys, and piles of discarded packaging and wrapping paper after it’s all over. The tree is ...

This is part of the L.A. Times 2022 Gift Guide. See the full guide here. If you make a purchase using some of our links, the L.A. Times may be compensated. The holidays can be hard for the ...

For the 16th year in a row, gift cards will be the most requested present of the holiday season, according to the National Retail Federation. More than 3.4 billion were sold in the United States, ...

Will Flower is not a curmudgeon with a bah-humbug attitude to the holidays. But there’s one feature of the season that he finds less than joyous. “Every aspect of the holiday season generates waste, ...

Donations to environmental, conservation, and animal-welfare charities recovered steam last year, showing a 2.7-percent increase to $6.2-billion, according to Giving USA. That comes after a ...