wrapping paper
My mum is a bit of an eco-warrior. Likes to do her bit on saving the planet and will try to convert anyone else who'll listen bless her. She's massive on recycling, you know the usual, glass bottles, cans, paper-what we all should be doing really. But she does this one thing that christmas that I think is taking it a little too far. She'll be so careful not to tear the wrapping paper on any of her presents so she can recycle it and use it again the following year. Not too bad you might think. But she has drawers full of the stuff. At christmas we'll get presents with paper thats been around for 10 years! I find it annoying when she comes to opening my present and am excited to see if she likes it but takes 10 minutes to open the damn thing. This will normally result in echoing cries from all of us, ''JUST RIP IT MUM!!'' But she never does. And she's probably saved quite a bit of cash over the years. Anyhoo this year I shall be buying her this

www.the-green-apple.co.uk/recycled-christmas-gift-wrap-p-1309.html

And I'll be wrapping it up. With new paper.

First post woop!
(flutterybutterfly, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 21:14, 7 replies)

My brother wraps with newspaper, and I've occasionally wrapped things up with old flatpack furniture instructions. It started as general waste reduction, but now picking the right articles or diagrams to show has started to become a bit of an art form. :)
( Boras the anachronism, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 22:57, closed)

haha, ive used old magazines before but only because i had left it to the last minute, ended up looking quite good though!
(flutterybutterfly, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 23:40, closed)

Or alternatively
wrap the paper up in some presents.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 23:18, closed)

Wrapping papaer is a massive waste to me.
What's wrong with just plain paper? It's not as if it doesn't look nice. Next best thing is your mum's plan, I think. Pointless spending all that cash on something that will be destroyed soon afterwards.
(ConanTroutman thought we would free the vulture, Wed 2 Dec 2009, 9:36, closed)

I found I lacked wrapping paper on a couple of occasions...
...because of fail. I took to printing interesting patterns on standard office paper. No-one noticed. I quite enjoy it now.
(ThomsonsPier consumes, Wed 2 Dec 2009, 10:48, closed)

You should tell her
that REDUCE is the top of the waste hierarchy for a reason.

If she was really an eco-warrior she should use no paper whatsoever, and buy you all solar panels/wind turbines for christmas if she buys anything at all.

Alternatively, if she poisoned you all and herself this christmas then that would reduce the carbon footprint of the area too.

Hug the planet - kill all your friends and family.

Merry x-mas all.
(magic the cat will someone please think of the kittens, Wed 2 Dec 2009, 11:09, closed)

My Nan did that for years before the environment was even invented
In her own words she "just couldn't abide waste".
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 2 Dec 2009, 14:07, closed)