Do you reuse wrapping papers?

Yea, time to go green.:P

Kudos to that!=)

Hey, I think that's one good habit to cultivate!=)

but it is good only if u have alot of free time...
i don't get much nowadays.....

It is part of the price of going green.

you are right all of us should do something for the mother nature.
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Noble.:P

Definitely! It wouldn't do if the recipient can tell it is reused.:P

In my family I have to be careful which paper I use for their gifts, since some are like me and recycle. I try not to wrap a gift in used paper that was given to me by the recipient of this year's gift. For example, my aunt wraps all of her gifts in angel papers, so I know to try to use the older angel papers (on the bottom of the pile) or I use another pattern and just include an angel ornament. It helps me spend more money on gifts by recycling the paper! In fact, I still have baby Christmas wrap from when my 15 yearold daughter was little. I roll it onto a wrap roll and tie ribbons around it each year to keep the paper free from fold marks.

Just a thought: You can perhaps label the wrapping papers so that you won't forget who gave which lol.:P

Ha ha ha, you bet!^^

Gift bags are so easy to reuse, and most people don't even notice if they happen to get the bag they gave you last year with their present this year. The only time I don't reuse them is if they're ripped badly or otherwise damaged. I also salvage whatever bows I can--no sense in buying more next year when the ones we have this year are perfectly good!

Gift bags as in the bag you used to contain the wrapped presents? Well, those are certainly reusable whatever store they might be from. If they look good and presentable, all the more better!:)

Swapping wrapping paper? Oh mine... isn't it too much an inconvenience for such a "small" thing?

Not when you're dumb like me and buy huge rolls of the stuff because it's on sale and you like the pattern... then you have to give presents with the same wrapping paper on them year after year after year!

The good thing is, there's apparently quite a few people in my area who had the same idea, so it all worked out in the end. LOL

Hehe... we don't even see them in big rolls here (not usually). Normally we buy it piece by piece.:P

I never thought to use the prettier papers for scrapbook pages! I am only beginning to scrapbook, though much of mine is done digitally, but I own a scanner and could simply scan the papers! What a great idea, thanks for responding to this discussion and giving me one more way to recycle.:-)

You may have a scanner. But you would need a very nice color laser printer too.:P

Well, the color laser printer would definitely be a nice thing to have, but I don't think it would actually be necessary since chargoans is planning to scan them for use in digital scrapbooks, not traditional scrapbooks.  :P

Yea, but imagine printing your beautiful collection out. That is like WOW!:P

Greenie cool.^^

Regina, I am like you in that. I use to save my wrapping paper and keep a bag of it set aside..But it got to be that I had more wrapping paper then gifts that I actually give out..So I trashed it and resolved to buy fresh..

For a while I re used for family as they wouldnt notice as they are used to it. But of course for colleagues, boss and some special people it has to be fresh wrapping paper.

Yup, why waste?:)