Better Hens and Gardens

The idea of buying wrapping paper, wrapping gifts in it, opening the gifts, and throwing the wrapping paper out drives me crazy - it’s just so wasteful.  During the winter holidays, 4 million tons of wrapping paper and shopping bags are thrown away.  So, last year we started using fabric gift bags (see Green Gift Bags and the picture at right) and this year we added Furoshiki gift wrapping.  Furoshiki is the Japanese tradition of wrapping gifts in beautiful swaths of cloth – that you can reuse rather than throw away.  In addition to using fabric for wrapping gifts this year, I also cut the tags [...]

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