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Do You Save Wrapping? – Thrifty Ways to Wrap Christmas Gifts

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

My Aunt, God rest her soul, saved Christmas paper and those silly little paper bows from year to year. Shop garage sales and thrift stores and estate sales. Christmas decorations, wrap, bows and ribbon all are continuous offerings at pretty much every garage sale, thrift store or estate sale I’ve ever shopped.

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Super Saver Holiday Ideas

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Thrift stores are also a great place to shop. Other treasured items we reuse every year include huge a mottled green glass ball ornament from my grandparents, a set of 1950′s angel candle holders from a favorite aunt and two 3 foot tall paper nutcrackers made by my kids in elementary school in the 1980′s.

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