If you have been reading this blog for any length of time you know two things about me. The obvious one is that I love to save money, the other is that I really encourage re-purposing, re-using and recycling. If something has reached the end of it's usefulness for it's original purpose, I try to find an alternative use for it to keep it out of the landfill or recycle bin.
I just can't stand spending money on things like wrapping paper, gift bags and gift tags - after all, they just end up in the trash or recycling after a very short life of making a gift look pretty. I would much rather get these things for FREE and spend the extra money on the gift itself. There are usually plenty of deals for things like wrapping paper, tissue and bags - we've seen that recently at Wags, but I have yet to find a deal on gift tags, so I always make my own.
Each year I keep all the Christmas cards that are sent to us, I only save the front of the card and recycle the rest. My husband also brings home the cards that they get at the police department. I keep these for the next Christmas season and make gift tags out of them. You can take fancy scrapbooking scissors to cut holiday shapes and add some colored card stock paper to the backside if you need a fresh area to write your message. If you have a Cricut or other die cutting apparatus you can make holiday shapes in a jiffy. Once they are done, use a hole punch to make a hole for a ribbon to tie the tag to a gift bag, or just attach it to a wrapped gift - it doesn't get much easier than that! :)
So, as you are wrapping these last few days before Christmas keep this tip in mind, and as you are cleaning up after the holidays remember to put your cards in a safe place so that next year you have plenty of stock and designs to choose from.
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