Re-Gifting Your Wrapping Paper

Daily Green Holiday Rush Series

Little me, decked out for the holidays

True story. One year, while celebrating Christmas, my parents convinced their 6-year old Sanju (that’s me!) to be “nice, nice” with the wrapping paper. I begrudgingly did, and then I noticed something strange. My aunt and my mom were neatly folding up the used wrapping paper.

Why? I asked myself. There’s no way they could get that back up to Santa. Next year, the paper looked familiar, but I wasn’t sure. Heard the echo of  “nice, nice,”but I didn’t listen. I ripped away. However, my mom collected the shreds, and my aunt pulled out tape and blew steam out of her iron.

Following year, my wrapping paper looked a patchwork of prior year’s wrapping , albeit ironed. So I decided to mark it with an ‘X’, and sure enough, next year, the same faded ‘X.’ And that’s when I knew there wasn’t a Santa Claus…

Okay, I'm a part-time fiction writer (though I have seen her fold wrapping paper).  Here's the real solution to recycled wrapping paper.  Introducing papermojo.com (I think Kendra wrote about this before, which means I’m recycling posts.) They make their wrapping paper from things like waste banana fiber, so if your kids are the paper-eating type, at least they’ll get their potassium.

I checked out papermojo.com, little too fancy for me. Where’s the Santa’s, the reindeer, the holiday bling? In that case, I would google ‘recycled wrapping paper’ and get what you need.

Btw, anyone who sends me a pic of a present wrapped in Junk Mail gets a free tee.

-Sanjiv