Gift Wrapping Paper Alternatives for the Brokeish!
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With the holiday season lurking around and the amount of presents being bought in the spirit of the season, the fact of wrapping gifts is inevitable. This is in particularly bothersome because when times are how they are and the average roll of gift wrapper is $3.00-$4.00…. making a presentation of your present gets costly! So here are a couple tips to try instead of buying a bunch of printed paper that is going to be thrown away:
1) This is one of my favorite ideas that I personally do all every year; use newspaper! News paper is a great alternative because its cheap (about a quarter on the weekdays) and in some cases you can go to groceries and pick it up for free! ( some newspapers thrive on advertisement revenues so they don’t need to charge for their newspapers, take advantage and get your free gift wrap on!
2) Using Fabric. Scrap fabric either laying around your house or from a fabric company is easy to acquire, cheap and some times free. Depending on the size of your gift you can find an assorment of fabrics that would make your present definietly stand out amoungst the other secret santa presents
3) Reusing the bag it came in…if the bags that come with the presents are paper bags paper bags can be cut up and used to wrap the presnt! All you need is some scissors and some creatve aspect!
4) Potato chip bags. Turn them inside out, wash them and cut them up, this gives the same effect as those nice foil wrappers!
5) if all else fails the 99 cent stores near you always sell gift wrap to capitalize on the events for … you got it, 99 cents!
Have a Brokeish holiday!
Tags: brokeish, Christmas, gift wrap, presents
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December 15, 2008 at 1:03 am
The potato chip bag suggestion is really cool. I’ve never seen it before, but I know a lot of people who are gonna get a kick out of getting their gifts wrapped in ruffles bag hah.