I am torn about paper this year. On one hand, I have justified my lack of sending holiday cards with the environment. Why waste the paper and envelopes and fuel delivering the cards, I said. On this same hand, I've bought a few gifts that come with secret magical packaging that is very environmentally friendly and I for sure won't add additional trimmings to these gifts out of respect for the people who invented the packaging.
(I don't want to give details because the recipients read this blog...)
But then there's my other hand and my other pile of gifts. I want to just put a bow or a tag on them or use newspaper to wrap them, but I just can't bring myself to do it. I have my mom for a mom, after all. She has such ornate wrapping devices and accouterments. She has this machine to cut ribbon into a million tiny pieces of ribbon that curl like permed hair. She has a bag of bows and more cute tags than you could ever use. She doesn't just have one roll of wrapping paper somewhere in the house like we do. She has a collection. There's paper for all holidays and occasions. She'd never wrap someone's birthday gift in Santa paper. She's probably embarrassed that I put the paper Santa-side in and give people white-wrapped gifts at non-Christmas events.
Sometimes I feel like my genetics are stronger than my desire to not be wasteful. I went to the store and bought a roll of wrapping paper yesterday. I haven't opened it yet or gotten rid of the receipt, but I'm thinking I might cave and wrap my presents with this beautiful, blue shiny paper. Some of the presents...
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Buy paper that is made from recycled paper.
Next year I'm not unsing wrapping paper. Instead I'm using the tissues paper that comes from my online deliveries and getting crafty and decorating that with christmas stickers and markers because my mother is like yours and her gifts always have to look pretty.
I didn't do it this year and I blame grad school for the fact that I didn't have time to do all the decorating. I did save all of my roommates shredded paper for wrapping breakable items...
please don't stop conserving! i like when you knit a gift and just tie a bow with the yarn. it's ok if you don't wrap. i'm trying to be more like you and i'm going to stop buying as much paper - when i use all mine up (in 10 years! heehee)
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