wasteful things
By momwatittude
@momwatittude (542)
United States
November 15, 2007 6:33pm CST
It's the time to give and be grateful-and, to often, to be wasteful. Each year between Thanksgiving and New Year's People pitch tons of extra trash, with the bulk of it being packaging. A few tips for giving green:
Reuse ribbon, or dispence with it by attaching a sprig of holly or a tree ornament in lieu of a bow.
Wrap presents in old magazines, calendars, newspapers, or old bags.
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@mcrowl (1050)
• New Zealand
26 Dec 07
I've just come across this post as a result of writing something similar today. Agree wholeheartedly with what you're saying.
Now, if I can just get my family to agree not to buy wrapping paper next year, we'll be making progress!
@momwatittude (542)
• United States
2 Jan 08
Try making a couple of sample boxes and bags for you family to veiw. They might really like the idea and it might catch on. It is worth a try anyway I guess if you want to that is. I save all the cereal boxes and other boxes. You can pant them, cover them, glue things to them imagination is good. I hope you have some luck with them. Have a great day.
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@mcrowl (1050)
• New Zealand
2 Jan 08
Well, we've made progress in some other areas regarding giving presents: there are so many of us that for everyone to buy for everyone had become ridiculous. Now we have a special bank account we all put a bit of money into each month, and at the end of the year one person buys for just one other person. Much more economic!
@FireHorse (293)
• United States
17 Nov 07
Great stuff! I wish there were more posts like this and they were more popular but I guess the lack of interest demonstrates why the world is as polluted as it is.
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@momwatittude (542)
• United States
17 Nov 07
thank you. I always try to buy things that I can reuse. I am going to post some more green ideas as much as I can. Too many people complain about pollution when what they need to do is do more on their part to make it better
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@ladysman94 (131)
• United States
4 Feb 08
I totally agree my mom does this very thing she throws nothing away everything can be used again she says in one way or another. I however am realy interested in the information on preventing global warming.
@Angela57 (14)
• United States
5 Jan 08
Love the ideas a lot.
You can make a colleague of old magazine pages using a clear paste or just use some magic tape so the pages can be big enough to wrap larger gifts.
Here's another idea I use. I have traveled a lot over the years and it always seems I come back with a map or two or three or 10, you know how it goes... you can never have too many maps.
Anyway, I started using the maps as gift wrap. And everyone I have given a gift to wrapped in a map loved it.
I always try to make the gift and map match some way.
For instance my middle son was trying to discover his roots a few years ago and was getting every scrap of info on Ireland he could find.
I had a map from Ireland from many years ago and wrapped a great new book about Ireland in it. He not only loved the book, he kept the map and put it in a frame too.
