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You can also take advantage of cloth shopping bags or baskets that you may have lying around your house. Especially if the gift is for an immediate family member, you can easily get your item back if needed.

I was 7 and Mama was crying and had to tell me a secret, a secret I shared with our own children as they made out their Santa list in their childhood. She said, “Son, Santa has to pay each family for the things he brings their children. All the money from our tobacco crop is gone and we spent the farm sale to pay off the farm and to buy things for the house.” Then she taught me to play “Authors” on the bed. I first studied all Authors’ pictures with his or her famous book printed on the back. Then she held the picture as I tried to guess what that author had written. I still know a lot of authors and book titles for books I have never read!

Even recyclable gift wrap will probably go to a landfill at the end of its life. Wrapping paper accounts for a tiny fraction of paper made from recycled material (while cardboard accounts for much more). Gift wrap is just not the ideal item to recycle: It’s thin and often full of ink, which makes it difficult to extract fibers from during recycling.

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“I think it’s fun because you get to hang out with the different grade levels, and we all just have fun with art. It’s not like we’re struggling with math or anything,” Pottschmidt said, smiling. “We’re having fun, so it’s a good time.”

If something on the list sounds fun at the moment and we have time to fit it in, we will. If not, we won’t sweat the fact that some of our boxes remain unchecked when Christmas winds to a close.

WAYZATA — Now that the holidays are winding down, it’s time to deal with all the recycling and trash that the celebrations left behind.

This particular Christmas Day was the last one Dad spent in his own home as that summer we moved him to the nursing home after he cut the power line with fiberglass-handled clippers. I was cleaning the kitchen when the guys came strolling in with a small wrapped box.

If you hosted any holiday or New Year’s Eve parties, you may have an abundance of plastic cups needed to be hauled away. If they are Solo cups or are paper cups lined with plastic, they belong in the trash and not the recycling bin.

It came in its original box, complete with charred marks on the outside – it looks like it’s been on fire at some point! It’s always amazing when a suite of jewellery that’s hundreds of years old remains complete and in its original box. It has clearly been well cared for and well loved. I do wear it from time to time, it looks stunning with an open-necked blazer. I always say antique jewellery is only yours for a while, then you pass it on.

Don’t just throw your busted holiday or string lights in the recycling bin. You know how lights get tangled when you store them? Well, imagine what happens when string lights get mixed in with the recycling process — talk about frustrating to untangle.

As Ristow pointed out, this doesn’t have to be an all-or-nothing option. “Part of the fun of wrapping is the chance to get creative, but that doesn’t always have to involve materials that’ll end up in the landfill,” she said. “We have a lot more opportunity to keep the joy without the environmental cost.”