CHRISTMAS REUSE AND RECYCLE

Well it's that time of year again, gift wrapping is going into overdrive.  When it comes to gift wrapping for me, I am afraid it is a case of reuse and recycle. 

Every year I go to the basement and bring up my Christmas gift wrapping storage boxes. One box contains my gift bags and gift boxes of various types and sizes, the other my tissue paper and santa hats.  It always makes me smile when I look through the gift bags, because most of them are the ones we used last year (and possibly even the year before that) -  some even have the gift tags to family members still attached!  Crazy I know, but it always seem such a shame and such a waste to throw these bags and boxes away, so I always retrieve them after the opening frenzy on Christmas Day, and store them away again.  

I think maybe this behavior is somewhat inherited from having a thrifty Mother. When I was a child, we would spend an afternoon after Christmas cutting up our Christmas cards, cutting around the images on the cards, such as Christmas trees, giant baubles and Santas of all sizes, making them into our own unique gift labels which we would then use the following Christmas.  Tissue paper was smoothed out and reused, even wrapping paper if it could be saved would be folded and used the following year.

Although I look longingly and jealously at other people's beautifully wrapped packages and gifts, I guess I am my Mother's daughter after all.  

Merry Christmas everyone and happy wrapping!

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