Eco-friendly gift wrap ideas

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I really good at recycling things and have wrapped birthday gifts in scarves and reusable boxes and bags but c'mon! It's christmas and i have like 50 presents to wrap! Besides, Dollar Tree has cute wrapping paper for a buck! I never spend more than 5 bucks on wrapping paper!

tacky, and too late! not enough time.

these are awesome ideas,THANKS! i would have never though of this..

I am definitely a creative recycler. I get the nice wired ribbon at Costco and reuse it for years- no reason not to. We also utilize everything from shipping boxes to cereal boxes to package items up before wrapping them. The great part nowadays- you can recycle the wrapping paper too.

Just leave it in the sack you bought it in ! Tie a Large Bow on it . If it is for a child, drop in a "Double Hand Full" of "Flea Market" Toys Too ! Watch them plenty of times throw down the "New Toy" and play with the old ones ! Long as it makes them Happy ! That is what the Season is for !!!!

It would be a good idea to NOT use peanuts. I have 2 grandsons who are allergic to them. The youngest can't even be in a room with them! Popcorn is a safer suggestion.

I'm not sure about using real peanuts for packing....unless you're positive the gift recipient is not allergic to them.

As for all you anti-green folks......go suck an exhaust pipe!

I mentioned the peanut allergy issue because I deal with it every day of my life. Most people would never intentionally send peanuts to someone with a peanut allergy. But that is irrelavent because food allergy reactions are almost always accidental. If you've ever lived with a life-threatening allergy, you know that you can never assume people will stop to think about these issues.

Ok, so I've used the large white sheets of packing paper from places like Williams Sonoma for kids art paper or stamping on for something to do but not as wrapping paper. Quite honestly I'd rather buy the stinkin roll of paper at the store that is holiday printed and use it. It is PAPER it will BIODEGRADE when thrown out. If someone wants to spend money on wrap so be it. It's once a year. It's Christmas. I'd rather wrap it up in something tinsel shiny and pretty than an old sock or potato chip bag from the garbage. That to me is tacky and shows you don't care much about the gift you're giving or the person you're giving it to.

When I was a little girl... my granmother always "wrapped" gifts in what we thought were "odd" packages... an empty cheese-it's box, an empty box from aluminim foil, whatever she had handy... didn't need wrapping paper or a bow... If she did use "wrapping paper" it was the sunday funnies or newspaper, or even aluminum foil, was kinda fun to see what was inside her gifts, or what she would use next.

Oh how would the season be if you could afford to even buy gifts... looks like we'll be celebrating a Jehovah's Witness Christmas this year.

So for all of you anti-green thinkers out there... Sit back and do it your way, but don't be so nasty to those of us that give a damn. It's not all about global warming! Who really wants full to the brim landfills, treeless areas that have been stripped bare, trash polluting beaches and waterways, etc....?? Some of these ideas are great. Not sure about the vintage wrap idea. That seems wasteful to layer multiple papers. And o one has to go dumpster diving to do these. You recycle your own stuff! Newspaper, especially the comics, makes great paper too. As for the peanuts, common sense tells you not to send it to someone with a peanut allergy. But I'd bet if your packing a specialty jar of peanut butter you'll be fine, because you KNOW your recipient!

Using real peanuts presents more of threat to a person with a peanut allergy than the gift would be worth. Eco friendly ideas are great, but not ones that can put a person's life at risk.

I've never seen a potato chip bag that unwrinkled in my life. In all honesty it looks like they used foil straight out of the box. But I like many of the other ideas. Some of these are beautiful. I've always bought wrapping paper when it's on sale the day after Christmas and saved it for the next year. I might start saving other things instead.

shoot I been doing this for years. Infact I even take an item I made to wear and wrap with it. Got to try and save a tree or two.

to the idiots who are saying "use real peanuts instead of styrofoam peanuts" and panicking about allergies... show me where it says that in the article.. i challenge you to show me, because it doesn't.
to the other idiots who are so anti-environment.. why read the article if you don't care about being eco-friendly? it says "eco-friendly" in the title, so why read it if that's something you're not interested in? just to post comments to crap on someone else's parade? way to get in the holiday spirit and completely miss the point of the article. go read fox news and leave us alone. have a merry fracking christmas, right wing nut jobs.

I know going green is good but,some of those ideas are little much.

Why don't the companies that make holiday wrapping paper find a way to make enviromentally friendly paper...why do I have to find alternative "green" ways to wrap my presents? Oh...and I want the letter "Q" stricken from the the alphabet too.