#Wrapping #holiday #gifts can help you #reduce, #reuse and #recycle if you do it creatively. Try wrapping an odd-shaped gift in a tea towel, DIY Beautify suggests: Simply center the gift, pull up the sides of the towel and tie at the top. Or use scraps of attractive fabic in holiday colors to make ribbons rather than buying new. Top gifts with natural materials such as rosemary sprigs, dried orange slices, cinnamon sticks or pinecones, Environment America suggests. And if you must use store-bought papers, avoid those with glitter, foil and metallic elements or plastic coatings; these can’t be #recycled. #GiftWrapping
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Simple (But Crafty) Gift-Wrap Ideas
The craftiest among us have many options when it comes to #wrapping #Christmas #gifts. Most Lovely things suggests using kraft paper and rubber stamps to create your own, one-of-a-kind, repeating-pattern wrap; making air-dried clay tags for labels that can double as ornaments; using white butcher paper and a labelmaker; or stringing candy canes on gifts with ribbon. The wrapping-challenged might opt for paper lunch bags with custom stickers or jam jars in a red-and-white pattern for cookies and other small items. While it’s the thought that counts, a gift’s look can make a splash with recipients, too! #GiftWrapping
Get Creative With Gift Wrap
Take it from the #gift-givers at the Organizing Blog: Even if a gift isn’t extravagant or costly, you can dress it up with wrapping that screams “open me first,” and you don’t have to spend a lot to make your gifts look special during the #holidays. With some creativity, even humble materials such as scrap paper, newspaper, kraft paper or vintage fabric can be used to give gifts a little extra panache. Practically anything that can be tied can be zjuzhed into a fancy bow for your #Christmas #gifts, too, from butcher string to twine to disused videotape. And there’s no shame in using a sticky bow or gift bag. #GiftWrapping
Good Gift Wrapping Makes the Holiday
No #Christmas tree would be complete without a pile of wrapped #gifts under it. If you want to go beyond the #gift bag and make your gifts stand out, start with a quality paper, the New York Times says; it will be less likely to rip as you fold it around the gift. Use invisible or double-sided tape and pick out quality embellishments such as a wide, wire-supported ribbon; they are easy to use even if you can’t tie a good bow. Tie on a few sprigs of seasonal greenery, a pine cone or a #holiday cookie cutter for added visual appeal — and of course a tag or sticker to identify the recipient. #GiftWrapping
Help Your Mom Become More Minimalist
If you really want to impress a #minimalist #mom, help her #declutter and #organize for #Mother’s Day. She can choose the areas to target; the important part is that you help her edit the #stuff in that space down to the essentials and get rid of the rest. If you find any lightly used goods Mom no longer needs, consider holding a #garage or #tag sale and use the proceeds to take her out to dinner — or #donate that extra #junk to ClothingDonations.org by scheduling a #free #donation #pickup. A Mother’s Day #decluttering can keep Mom happy for weeks and months to come! #MothersDay