Thank you for the lovely suggestions for my tombstone. I think the most appropriate would be, "Well, she tried."
Emptied the Christmas shelf this morning, the bit at the top of the wardrobe that I use to store wrapping paper etc. Turns out my mum was green before being green was a thing. I imagine most of our families were. I was told to unwrap presents carefully so she could save and re-use the paper; now I'm doing the same thing. I have a box and a bag full of pieces of paper most of which is inevitably the wrong shape or size or torn in the wrong place to be useable*.
Also found the strangely-shaped neck rest with three bits. Can't remember how it was supposed to go but pretty sure it wasn't the way Husband modelled it.
And enough unused Christmas cards, I hope, to avoid having to buy any this year. I plan to use some of my recharge time to get those written, and finish my present shopping. Watched Bridget Jones' Baby yesterday afternoon. I must have seen it before but it was a silly enough way to relax.
* Google tells me usable is the preferred spelling but both are acceptable.
15 comments:
I have the gift wrap/ bag thing going here too. It is a joke in the family how often those materials are recycled.
I keep and reuse gift bags too,, but screw wrapping paper, it's too fiddly to save bits and bobs and creased old stuff. I do, however, keep used tissue paper to reuse as space fillers/buffers around items I ship by mail.
Gift bags are so useful. They have all sorts of things stored in them - clutter, really.
I give $$, to various deserving causes. No gift wrap required. I'm out of the world of stuff.
I use and reuse gift bags too. Recently I've started making them out of fabric scraps. Once I get a good supply I'll never have to buy again.
I try not to give the same paper back to the person who gave it to me!
I keep tissue paper to make prettily decorated - oh blow this, just stuff it in.
THis is true too!
A habit to be promoted I htink.
That's a good idea - or would be if I were a sewer.
Gift bags are wonderful for those of who are all thumbs. And they’re very reusable.
I have bits of wrapping paper that are never the right size for my needs. Good thing I have a huge roll of paper. I've been using it for at least 10 years and it never runs out -- shades of Elisha and the widow.
Love,
Janie
I do reuse gift boxes, bags and even tissue paper but I've never reused wrapping paper. Everyone here always rips into it so it's beyond usable
What does htink mean?
Obviously not think.
We keep ours too. Soon I'll have to venture into the loft and retrieve them.
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