Christmas Wrappings

Don't buy new Christmas wrapping paper if at all possible. There are lots of things you can use instead; try to recycle and reuse instead.
For example:

• Turn an empty foil-type potato chip bag inside out, wash it down, and use it as wrapping paper or as a gift bag. You can also cut the foil chip bag into strips to make the bow or curling ribbons.
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• Use the wrapper from reams of copy paper or printer paper, turned inside out, as wrapping paper. Stamp images on the blank side for decorations, or have your kids color a picture of holiday stuff on it.

• Use the color comics as wrapping paper.

• Use old color calendars and posters and magazines and flower catalogs as wrapping paper.

• If you know a paperboy or delivery person, they usually throw out the brown paper that the newspapers come wrapped in. This is GREAT wrapping paper; just decorate it with stamps or paints or drawings.

• Sometimes the local newspaper has roll-ends of newsprint that you can ask for and have for free.

• If you sew, make a cloth gift bag that can be re-used again and again.

• And of course, try to re-use any gift bags or wrappings that you saved from last year!

By Ness from Lakeview, NY