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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 07:13:52 -0600
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- From: Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Christmas wrapping
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- > Not by a long shot! Not only do I save the bows, I also save any of the
- > wrapping paper that hasn't been totally destroyed and reuse it for birthday
- > presents during the year. I have some sheets that have been recycled five
- > times. This year I lashed out and bought some of the more expensive foil
- > wrapping that doesn't crease or rip and the sticky-tape is easily removed
- > without marking the foil..... I'm hoping that will have a much longer life -
- > it all survived it's first Christmas in any case. :-)
-
- The foil sounds as if it has definite possibilities...I'll look for it
- next year. One way I do save money (well, all right, a *little* money) is
- by not buying tags for the packages for the family. This all started a
- long time ago when I forgot to buy any one year...I just assigned each
- person in the family one kind of wrapping paper and wrapped all gifts in
- that pattern...it worked great! (Well, except for the year that I forgot
- which pattern belonged to which person...) It was also useful in keeping
- small people from knowing which packages were theirs, because I didn't
- reveal the code until Christmas.
- ndh
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