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galadhir:
The furoshiki cloths were a great success. Instead of the usual bin-bag full of torn up plastic-coated wrapping paper to throw out, after unwrapping the presents, I have a neat little parcel of folded cloths, tied in another cloth, which are all going back in the cupboard for next year.
As they were tied rather than taped, there’s no sellotape to throw away either. We have generated zero waste in the wrapping line except for a few gift tags, which were made from last year’s Christmas cards anyway. This feels really good :)
Ah fantastic!
I was the only one in the family who made furoshiki this year so they all got wildly distributed about the place, and I got a photo of the ones that went to Maryland, as those were immediately repurposed into capes for the dogs. The one that was for the child here became, as I had expected, immediately a blanket for dolls, and was on the cat for a while (he was delighted and went back to sleep). The others, IDK, they’ll probably wind up in various family cupboards, but I expect I’ll see some of them reused. And it’s inspired at least one sibling to go exploring in her linen closet for sheets she doesn’t use, to make some of her own for next time.
We didn’t use a lot of wrapping paper anyway this year, but that’s a natural progression of our family’s ages and such. Farmsister used all the paper packing material from various Amazon packages, which also works pretty well. At least that kind of plain brown paper is compostable. And my dad very carefully used newspaper comics that the child hadn’t yet read to wrap his gift for Farmkid, so that she could sit and read them for a few moments to calm down after the frenzy of gift-giving.
galadhir:
The furoshiki cloths were a great success. Instead of the usual bin-bag full of torn up plastic-coated wrapping paper to throw out, after unwrapping the presents, I have a neat little parcel of folded cloths, tied in another cloth, which are all going back in the cupboard for next year.
As they were tied rather than taped, there’s no sellotape to throw away either. We have generated zero waste in the wrapping line except for a few gift tags, which were made from last year’s Christmas cards anyway. This feels really good :)
Ah fantastic!
I was the only one in the family who made furoshiki this year so they all got wildly distributed about the place, and I got a photo of the ones that went to Maryland, as those were immediately repurposed into capes for the dogs. The one that was for the child here became, as I had expected, immediately a blanket for dolls, and was on the cat for a while (he was delighted and went back to sleep). The others, IDK, they’ll probably wind up in various family cupboards, but I expect I’ll see some of them reused. And it’s inspired at least one sibling to go exploring in her linen closet for sheets she doesn’t use, to make some of her own for next time.
We didn’t use a lot of wrapping paper anyway this year, but that’s a natural progression of our family’s ages and such. Farmsister used all the paper packing material from various Amazon packages, which also works pretty well. At least that kind of plain brown paper is compostable. And my dad very carefully used newspaper comics that the child hadn’t yet read to wrap his gift for Farmkid, so that she could sit and read them for a few moments to calm down after the frenzy of gift-giving.
