Wrapping up Christmas
After the Christmas gifts were opened -what happened to all that wrapping paper?
We actually do something now that I'd only seen my grandmother do and I thought I was "stupid" and "weird" at the time - she'd fold up the wrapping paper to reuse another time.
Yep - I recycle-OK-I reuse - as much as I can. And I think I out-do my grandmother in the weirdness department, because I will use bath towels or blankets to wrap larger gifts. Yes, you read that right - I use towels and blankets for larger gifts.
I'll admit - it creates an unusual multi-tasking moment: folding laundry and receiving a gift at the same time. Oh well.
Besides, more and more, I feel guilty creating waste using wrapping paper and boxes that will be tossed out - unless I am there to the rescue.
Oh yeah, and then there's the Christmas tree - Ours ends up in our outside fireplace during the remaining cool or cold evenings-nothing goes to waste as we sit by a crackling fire with a little glass of wine under a clear starry night....
How do you minimize gift-wrapping waste - what do you do with your Christmas tree?
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