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.
11 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.
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