This week’s tip: Use alternative gift wrapping and cards.

If every family in the US wrapped 3 gifts in alternative wrappings, we could save enough paper to cover 45,000 football fields. Get creative!

• Try colorful new dish towels.
• Use fabric scraps.
• Wrap with the comic pages of the newspaper.
• Reuse wrapping paper received - with a touch up of the iron if needed
• Reuse gift bags.
• Use tissue or paper bags, possibly decorated with “scrapbook” type cutouts or “stamped” images.
• Reuse bows and trimmings. (If every family in the US reused just 2 feet of ribbon we would save 38,000 miles of ribbon - enought to tie a bow around the earth!)
• Make gift cards out of used cards.
• Buy cards made from recycled paper.
• Trim your Christmas Card list.