Tag Archives: recycle

Get Creative with Gift Wrapping

Rethink how you decorate your gifts this year. Wrap boxes in old newspapers for a vintage look, or use kraft paper and draw your own designs. Craft DIY gift tags and bows to top off the presents.

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Gift Wrap

When you’re in the throes of the holiday rush, buying gifts can feel like a practical task — so much so that you forget that gift-giving is ultimately a symbolic ritual, meant to express appreciation for others. And wrapping them? … Continue reading

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Shabby Chic

Why would anyone want to live with furniture that has been worn out. Positively Purging-I welcome your feedbacks in the comments and your likes and passing the real life wisdom on to others as I embark on this new venture … Continue reading

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Affordable Invitations

With the new year comes the taking down of Christmas decorations, the removal of your Christmas tree, and the recycling of that giant stack of holiday cards you received from friends and family. If you haven’t tossed them already, you … Continue reading

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Joys of Buy Nothing Groups

This past Christmas, partly as an experiment in avoiding the commerce of the holidays, I got my entire extended family — 14 people — thoughtful, personal gifts that fellow Buy Nothing-ers bestowed upon me. (I did this over a period … Continue reading

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