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I just spent $65
ordered three T-shirts
which I will be using
instead of wrapping paper
which I refused to buy
because the recycled birthday paper
hold your horses
would have cost $15.
Is that logic or what?
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Sometimes I amaze myself!
Happy Friday!
Now I need something to make environmentally friendly bows out of.
May the force be with me!
I have used towels to wrap gifts before, never thought of using a t-shirt.
I buy scarfs and now I buy t-shirts and so far everybody loved my wrapping.
$15 seems a bit steep. Especially when to covert it to Aussie dollars!
Have you ever looked at Pinterest or googled alt ideas for wrapping paper.
I used to paste repurposed calender patterns/paper/ cards or draw/paint pretty flowers onto the face of the brown paper bags given out at shops. You know the ones with the handle?
I seem to have collected many over the time.
Old fabric scraps are great eternal wraps for gifts too.
I often buy inexpensive cloth bags that at least can be used again and feel good about giving a gift in something that isn’t going right into the trash. I am not always consistent, though. I can be equally wasteful. But I’m never proud of that!
I know he will like the t-shirt. They are all ‘goofy’ ones making fun of old age and since it’s his 65th birthday, I know he will wear them with price (or I will make him.) 🙂
Well, I just decluttered my house, so there is that. 🙂 I love wrapping gifts with useful things like scarfs, kitchen towels, bath towels. Tomorrow we will know if he likes the goofy shirts I will make him wear. 🙂
Logic is a scarce commodity. Happy Friday!
When I “covered” Christmas presents last Christmas, I only used gift bags recycled from other celebrations. My son-in-law received his outdoor clothes suitable for a lumberjack in a pretty pink princess bag covered in sparkly bling.
Oh how funny! I re-gifted all our giftbag already and every empty box in our home has found a new purpose in our home, when I decluttered and reorganized EVERYTHING.
I have used a variety of materials for wrapping Christmas gifts: pesky colourful advertising pages that bulk out newspapers; old calendar pictures; sacking; tissue paper that comes with new shoes; and recycled gift bags – some get used over and again.
You are just perfect, Anne. 🙂
I normally use new dish towels, mostly for the presents for the ladies. I don’t have newspaper anymore, ever since I learned it’s the best week cover for our flowerbeds (and I switched from real newspaper to digital). Calendar pictures are too small, so I thought I look into recycled b-day paper sheets (which are beautiful) but too expensive.
It just tickled my funny bone that I didn’t want to spend $15 on paper, but spent $60 on t-shirts. 🙂
Great ideas Anne
A certain logic, no doubt
“A certain logic” I like that. 🙂
But the T-shirts would be worn many many times and the birthday paper thrown out. Sooooo, buying the paper for a single use $15, buying the t-shirts for 65 uses ends up being $1. And (bonus) whoever gets the presents thinks of you when they use the present AND when they wear the t-shirts.
They are for my husband, so there is no guarantee on that one, because he is picky and I bought ‘haha-old-men-shirts’. 🙂
Ah, but using male logic (I assume that there is some) he can wrap presents to his “old guy” friends with the t-shirts he won’t wear himself.
There is male logic and it’s not bad at all -just simpler and more straightforward sometimes. 🙂
This ‘help the environment’ is more complicated than I thought. 🙂
Nah, it’s simple. Never throw anything out…ever. Although my kids have scheduled a “Hoarding Intervention” for next week sometime. Guess I’d better clear a path. Oh LOOK! There’s the recycled Birthday wrapping paper! It really is recycled because I wrapped something for my husband in it. He carefully unwrapped it, so then I used it for my son when he was here, and I will probably use it one more time, then make a decoupage or some art project or use it as mulch for my tomatoes… Pay no attention to that mad laughter coming from my house.
We just downsized and I couldn’t be happier. Everything has a home now. Clutter makes one depressed.
Shoelaces?
Just found out I can make recycled bows out of plastic bags. I need to try it, they look fun.