How do you wrap gifts?
A torturous form of delayed gratification, wrapped gifts cultivate excitement and wonder. Yet nowadays gift wrap can be quite pricey and is often made with non-recyclable plasticized or metallic paper. Careful unwrapping and reuse helps but ultimately it ends up in the landfill. If it is placed in the recycling it must be sorted out at the recycling facility.
I imagine the paper sorters dread Christmas. Can you imagine miles and miles of smushed wrapping paper mixed with plastic bags, rubber bands and tape?
The low cost alterative, newspaper works well especially the comics. Boxes within boxes with lots of balled paper can be fun too.
Reusable paper or cloth bags are great and can last for many years. One woman I met recently uses beautiful scarves she finds for pennies at garage sales and thrift stores. What a great idea!
Comments or suggestions?
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