Following on from Santa’s Elf ‘s question this morning, when do you wrap presents, I want to know what people use to wrap gifts…
Different shapes and colours – the wrapping adds to the excitement of Christmas 🙂
For many years, we’ve collected wrappings each year and recycled them the following year where possible (kids tend to rip them apart so not everything is reusable!) It’s interesting that a number of people used to give us funny looks about collecting and keeping the paper, but with more ‘green’ sentiment around now, people seem to accept it.
Reusing the paper does save us money, but our real incentive is to save some trees and reduce pollution in the printing and transporting of wrapping paper.
A few times we’ve also used alternatives to paper for wrapping – like when giving some picinic items, we wrapepd them in a light tablecloth and when we use a tea-towell to wrap kitchen tea of house warming gifts.
And young children bring home a wealth of wrapping paper when they do paintings at kinder and childcare! We enver used their favourite artworks, but they were very proud to see presents wrapped in their paper so it was win win all round!
Does being green come into your Christmas wrapping or do you like the pretty, sparkly pile of presents?
Thanks for sharing your wrapping experiences Patricia 🙂
Like you, I have often used recycled wrapping paper and have also used tea-towels a couple of times, too. Piles of left over paper to throw out are colourful and fun, but it does seem a bit of a waste and can be a problem to fit into a recycling bin!
I know what you mean about wrapping other people’s parcels, I work in a gift shop and I love it when people ask me to wrap their presents for them!
Sounds like you love wrapping gifts, Jonah 🙂 I guess in a shop you have to use new paper, or do you get more creative than that?
I have always been known for wrapping gifts among my family and friends. I was looking through an old Martha magazine and saw brown kraft paper used to wrap gifts all year round. So after passing some kraft paper while at Michaels a few weeks ago I thought I should start this tradition of wrapping with brown paper. I will have to wait until my next 50% off one item coupon to grab me a roll. Or maybe I should use reuse paper like you Patricia…
Take care,Lisa
There is a simplicity and style to using plain paper, isn’t there Lisa? And you can dress it up with bows, sprigs of greenery or decorate the paper itself.