None! Not one more roll. (OK, well maybe one.) Wrapping paper takes a lot of time to use, does not store well from year to year (even with proper storage), makes a huge mess to be cleaned up especially if you have a large family, and it overloads our trash cans and land fills each year. Instead I have started using reusable containers, boxes, and bags. I still buy tissue paper for the insides of these containers, but try to reuse it as many times as possible before it becomes too wrinkled. I have started to buy Christmas material and scraps of silk-like material (when I come across them at discounted prices) to use in the boxes instead of tissue. When we have a gift too large we hand make our wrapping paper from brown packaging paper. And instead of using those crunchable bows we use Christmas ribbon. It does cost a little more for ribbon, but it stores very well and can be used from year to year making it less costly in the long run. The results for being frugal are packages that look elegant and expensive even though we were just trying to save time and money!
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Me too! I'm a brown paper packaging kind of girl! I have a post planned on it for Wednesday even! So pretty, and saves so much money!
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