[saymaListserv] more on how to cut UN-recycled paper use

[Thais Carr]

I have used cloth gift bags for about 10 years now.  (My sewing skills are only home ec 101, so anyone with a sewing machine can do the same.)  I cut out interesting images from the front of Christmas cards for next year's gift tags by punching a hole in it & threading the ribbon through it before tying the bag. (I'm the first to admit this method is not a good one for households with small children who would be too tempted to peek!)  Today I read a couple great ideas.  The first is using leftover wallpaper for gift wrapping.  The other was to run used gift wrap through a paper shredder & use it instead of tissue paper.  (I personally have a box for saving tissue paper I receive. You can take a dry iron to wrinkled tissue paper & it will look great.)  I just hate taking my trash to the dump right after Christmas & seeing the dumpster bulging with  discarded gift wrap!    Thais Carr
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