What a great idea for gift wrapping, Susie! I love all your totems and your dining room too. Isn't it fun to be able to say where you got everything from and how much it cost? You appear to have a houseful of wonderful 2nd hand treasures. Thanks for sharing, Hose! he-he Calamity_j, your totems are very unusual. I like that little "king mouse!" And what in the dickens were the pieces from in the other totem? I'm dying to find out!

don't know what happened to my original response! but i did go check out the link, and i signed up for free, and then downloaded dozens of decorative fonts and shapes, which i use a lot in my projects, would be very useful for greetings cards. plus i downloaded some cookbooks, and a craft projects book. there's one cookbook for 111 recipes for eggs, looks interesting! and one with camping recipes plus the usual cookies, and a cheesecake book......and more. i liked the link, myself. kudzu

As long as I didn't have to clean up the mess of the shredded paper, I didn't mind wrapped. I kind of enjoyed wrapping gifts. But I do think it's a waste of money and other resources. Better to use the comics or something. You can get creative in wrapping. My sister was the first to start using bags and cheapo that I am, I'd save and reuse them. We'd give the same bag back and forth. Now I use the reusable shopping bags more and more for gift bags. It's an extra gift in itself. As far as what I'd prefer to receive? An envelope. Stuffed with cash. Large denominations. As I've said before, THERE'S a thoughtful gift! You may wrap it in money if you want. Or use cash for the tissue too if you like. Christmas is approaching. Feel free to send anytime. It's cheaper to ship too!

We have tooooo much gift wrap. Awhile back I switched us to non-occasion-specific wrapping paper and that has helped some. We have red, gold, gold print, silver, and green peacock print. Like 4kids4us, we recycle gift bags. I'd also like to get into reusable cloth bags like crl_. Errant_gw, you can buy giant Christmas-print plastic bags around the holidays for large and unwieldy gifts. Maybe someone markets a non-occasion-specific version? I've thought about repurposing sheets into giant gift bags.