06.20.2006
No gifts, please. We simply couldn’t accept another Prius(OK, we jest). But wrapping paper waste is no laughing matter. With so much gift wrap sent to landfills each year (think millions of tons), reusable options are your best bet next time you get all gifty.
Jen loves the Lucky Crow gift bags listed below. Heather’s favorite way to wrap a small-sized present is by tying it up in a pretty cotton tea towel and closing with a reusable ribbon. The “wrap” itself becomes part of the gift.
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The “Birthday Paradox” - if there are 23 or more people in a room, there is more than a 50% chance that at least 2 of them will have the same birthday.
If every American family wrapped just 3 gifts in reused or reusable materials, we’d all save enough paper to cover 45,000 football fields, every year.
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