SAVING TREES DURING THE HOLIDAYS

Dear Heloise: We’ll be spending hours wrapping Christmas and Hannukah gifts in a few weeks, using a lot of paper sourced from forest trees that would be better left standing. I hate wrapping! I’ve come up with an alternative that has saved me hours of work -- and saves trees as well!

I buy pretty holiday-themed cloth on sale. I then make simple rectangular bags in a variety of sizes and sew a ribbon on the outside near the top of the bag. These bags can be used over and over again, and they take only seconds to “wrap” a present in!

You can even choose prints that reflect the recipient’s favorite activity (fish for my fisherman husband). You don’t need to be fussy about the size; I just make book-sized, shirt-sized, and large toy-sized bags. By using a v

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