Soon we will be giving gifts again that might end up at the back of closets. That doesn't have to be the case: three gift ideas from the Internet that are different – and also possible at the last minute.

This year Scholz & Volkmer has once again created an own Christmas campaign: Time rather than stuff, a concept that is designed to give our consumer society food for thought. Time rather than stuff replaces material gifts with time spent together. The bottom line: a low-key yet cool campaign which is well designed by Scholz & Volkmer, as one would expect

Not keen on giving your brother a DVD for Christmas for the fifth time, your mother a cookbook that ends up unused in her kitchen cupboard or your little cousin the umpteenth cuddly toy that will collect dust on a shelf? Scholz & Volkmer, the Wiesbaden-based creative agency, has a solution to this and offers more than great ideas and inspiration on what to buy instead.

The agency Scholz & Volkmer has set up an unusual online shop. You go there to give gifts of time spent together. What gift shall I give? A book, a scarf, a perfume, a home decor item? Gifts of this kind are basically superfluous for people who already have a lot of things. But even so we still want to give them a treat. The Wiesbaden-based agency Scholz & Volkmer solves this problem with their "Time rather than stuff" Christmas campaign.

Before giving your loved ones their third cell phone or sixth cookbook that ends up unused in a cupboard, give them something personal - time with you. The "Time rather than stuff" project makes suggestions for great personal gifts that you can give your friends and family without falling back on the same old gift ideas. And the best thing about these gifts is: you're doing something to help the environment. Because our consumer behavior greatly impacts the climate. We determine what is produced and how it is produced. Especially at Christmas we buy things we don't really need.

Time is more precious than "stuff". Because most of us don't have enough of it. "Time rather than stuff" is an appealing campaign that gives you ideas for time gifts.

The peak in consumption at Christmas is basically about giving people things they don't need. What happens if we turn the system around? A rejection of the absurdity of our late capitalist culture.

Die Handelskette Real verkauft Produkte, die zwar einen Wert haben, aber kein Geld kosten? Klingt komisch, ist aber so: In der Vorweihnachtszeit gibt es bei Real Geschenkkarten von "Zeit statt Zeug", einer Initiative, die sich dafür einsetzt, statt überflüssiger Konsumgüter lieber gemeinsam verbrachte Zeit zu verschenken.