Gift Bags vs. Gift Wrap

[athelind]

Some people have an angel on one shoulder, and a devil on the other.

I have a dragon on each: one dressed in tie-dye and flip-flops, the other dressed in a classic Santa costume.

Environmental Scientist Dragon loves Gift Bags: present packaging that is fast, easy, and best of all, reusable year after year. They reduce the amount of post-holiday

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Recycled & Recyclable Wrappins

[foofers]

Some folks feel the newspaper/comics thing is kind of "ghetto." That is, until I wrapped some of last year's gifts in a Japanese newspaper. Suddenly it was the greatest novelty in the entire universe. (The sports pages have pictures of sumo wrestlers, which always helps.) If you have a Daiso store near you, they have stacks near the checkout registers, essentially free for the taking (they're for customers to wrap up dishware and other breakables).

Colorful road maps as wrapping paper is often well-received also, especially if you can match the recipient's home town (or where they went to college, a honeymoon, whatever). These sometimes turn up at thrift stores and used bookstores for a quarter.

And then I found some 35mm movie film cans at a thrift store, one with film still in it. I "wrapped" DVD presents in these, using the film to make a bow. The response was nothing at all like what I expected...folks handled these like gold bricks, and had more fun with the box than the toy inside. Those won't end up in a landfill any time

Re: Recycled & Recyclable Wrappins

[athelind]

Film Cans FTW.

I really like the idea of a "wrapper" that's a useful or intriguing item in and of itself.