so i heard on the radio this add about making this christmas season extra 'green' by not using as much commercially produced wrapping paper.
the statistic said that if each American family wrapped 3 (THREE) presents with recycled material, it would save equivalent to 45,000 (FORTY FIVE THOUSAND) football fields worth of paper...
come on now, thats a LOT of paper!
so one of the things they said to use instead of wrapping paper was your childs artwork.... you know all those pieces of paper that the kids draw on and produce their FINEST works of art EVER.. you know the thousands of images you have that you dont want to throw away, but cant seem to find a good place to keep? all those pictures that come home from school, mostly colored between the lines, or strangely shaped and colored animals and other assorted things...
now of course i will have to clear this with Izze first, but she is pretty recycle minded and i think she will be ok with it, but how cool will it be to wrap up all the nice presents weve bought for our family and friends with HANDMADE artwork? damn, i think its genius and i know 10 out of 10 grandparents would LOVE to get their gifts wrapped in this stuff, don't ya agree?
Some other ideas to think about while sitting around on your ass during christmas time....
Turn off your computer monitor when you are not using it!!!
--this will save you money and reduce green house gas emmisions by vast ammounts
--just using the screensaver dosent do much than leaving it powered on.
Reuse your old christmas cards...10 ways to save
--hang on to your old x-mas cards, here are some fun and 'green' ways to use them!
Use a LED christmas lights and USE A TIMER!!
-- nobody is looking at your christmas lights after 9 or 10 oclock,
--or if they do, they dont really care.
I sort of have to buy the gift wrap from Alexander for his school fundraiser, but you'll be happy to know it's ALL recycled paper. Good ideas though.
ReplyDeletedoes alexanders school have at least one fundraiser a month? i didnt buy from izzes school cause im getting burned out by all the damn fundraisers!
ReplyDeleteHis school only does the gift wrap thing in September and then a Football Mania thing in October. Other than that, we pay our tuition and attend the over-priced auction in February.
ReplyDeletegotcha, affton does at least one a month it seems, sometimes MORE!
ReplyDeleteand still you've never asked me to buy a thing. thanks j. those t.j. pizzas that the kids sell for fundraisers taste like cardboard and I hate it when people ask me to buy them.
ReplyDeleteim not gonna pawn izzes wares on you. what would you need that crap for? the only thing worth gettin so far was the coupon book, but i assume you wouldnt use it anyway, either that or Al would be sellin em too!
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