Waste-Free, Low-Cost Ways to Wrap Your Presents

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I like using old magazine pages, but not for Christmas.

Marilyn Terrell of VA @ Dec 27, 2008 11:08:16 AM

wrapping paper

We have 25 year old wrapping paper, carefully recycled year after year. What memories! Teach your children to carefully open the package, and to carefully wrap packages. My grandmother even avoided scotch tape so as to save as much paper as possible year to year. I have divided the last scraps between my children for their memory books. The first UNICEF papers, peace signs from the sixties, snoopy and big bird papers -- they all tell stories.

Emma of MA @ Dec 25, 2008 08:47:19 AM

I agree

Just recycle your paper. It's still eco-friendly.

Lol of CA @ Dec 24, 2008 23:33:06 PM

well

what a shit idea

Bill of IA @ Dec 24, 2008 08:36:05 AM

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