How Will You Green Your Holidays? |
How Will You Green Your Holidays? |
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For my Eco friendly holidays, I am using origami wrapping style so I do not use tape. My gifts (or rather supplies to make it) this year are all bought locally. I am creating sort of a gift basket with dried soup mixture for my recipient’s lazy days, knitted hand towels to urge them to go without paper towels, and knitted shopping bags to rid the use of plastic bags. Also including diabetic friendly cookies, brownies and other snacks.
This year I used thrift store sweaters to make stockings for everyone in my family. ($2 for more than 30 gifts). I’m filling those stocking with homemade gifts such as bath salts and treats. To wrap everything up, I’m putting the gifts in the stockings, then folding the toe of the stocking into the opening and adding a ribbon and bow – voila! Beautifully wrapped present. with zero actual wrapping! I’m so excited for Christmas!
This Thanksgiving, we’re foregoing the usual supermarket butterball turkey in favor of a turkey raised on a nearby farm and sold at our local Amish farmers market. We’re even kicking it up a notch by serving local wines and cheeses as pre-feast nibbles.