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Teach/Learn – The Wrapping Paper Problem
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I had never thought of using material as wrapping! What a great idea! Unfortunately I now it won’t make it’s way back to my house, and as we do Secret Santa in my family it may make it a little easier to identify which presents came from us 🙁
We only use this for presents that will be opened at our house, so between us and this year my parents and brother will be there too. I think the real value will be as the girls get older and the focus is more on immediate family rather than aunts/uncles/cousins. For others we try to make paper.
That is a great idea. I’ve seen it used in the Japanese gift wrapping style called Furoshiki.
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Which I always found a little intimidating. It didn’t occur to me to just wrap a gift simply in the paper.
D’oh commenting in a hurry and not proof reading.
It didn’t occur to me to wrap a gift simply in the fabric! (not paper).
Sometimes it seems the easiest most logical solution is the hardest to see.
We do something similar – I made some fabric bags with pretty Christmas fabric, and ribbons, and I just reuse them year after year. We made the first ones about 15 or 16 years ago, and they’re still going strong. We now have a collection of bags of different sizes to suit more or less any gift.
I love this idea. Might even have to look out for post Xmas specials on Christmas fabric. With three kids I’m sure to get through loads of wrapping in the years to come!
I looove this idea, and with so many crafty ladies in my family its sure to work a treat!
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I love your idea! What a great way to be ecological at Christmas – and it’s simple yet attractive. Kathleen’s idea of fabric gift bags is a great idea, too.
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Oooo that reminds me! I have fabric I meant to sew up into bags for just this purpose last year. Should have plenty of time this year with the two home schooling teens to help
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Wrapping with material sounds like a great, environmentally friendly way to go. I am considering making fabric bags for family gifts this year, not because of the waste of paper so much as because I hate wrapping everything up on Christmas eve and want to make it faster.
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Another eco-friendly wrapping idea is Christmas tea towels or hand towels (or other pretty ones for birthdays and other gifts, probably more suitable for the aunts and grandmothers though 😉
Great idea 🙂 We use dedicated pillow cases and ribbons – the pillow cases make it REALLY easy to wrap most presents 🙂
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That’s great Deb. I’ve been having the same dilemma and thinking through options of buying enviro bags to put the presents in or wrapping in tea towels but your idea avoids the adding on of price and having to think of a new method each year.
Firstly, sorry its taken me so long to get here!
Secondly, what a fantastic idea. Once our Christmas paper runs out, I will definitely be doing this!
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