What do you use for wrapping gifts?

pomeganate7 · 11 months

I like using the inside of brown paper grocery bags. If you wrap carefully and neatly and add a nice ribbon and it looks very classy.

BenDarDunDat · 11 months

I like comics for kids and brown packing paper found in mailing supplies for adults.

HOTMAMMA · 11 months

I was without anything to used when my 8 yr. old handed me the aluimun foil . It was for a kid and we added some of those stars (for charts) in blue and red. What a hit it was!!! I don't think it would be frugal but it was a life saver.

muddpie4785 · 11 months

Newspaper is an awesome gift wrap! Add a bright flower - real or plastic - or a length of colorful yarn or ribbon and you're good to go! Kid's gift? Use the sunday funnies. Another alternative is a cut-up paper grocery bag.

My mother has long been a recycler of gift wrap. Any gift bag or paper was carefully folded and saved. She even used to iron it! As a result, I have a wonderful trove of nifty vintage gift wrap, bags, and ribbon.

franklyfrugal · 11 months

We buy plain colored wrapping paper at christmas and use it throughout the year.

We also reuse gift bags.

delbin · 11 months

I usually use Sunday comics. They're colorful, practically free, and fit most packages. Alternately, get a bunch after christmas when they're $1 a roll. Get plain red or blue. The last thing you want to do is wrap a birthday present in Christmas paper.

BeerGal · 11 months

If I'm using a box for the present I cut out magazine photos based on the present and then glue them to the box to decorate it and make a collage. I just did this for my MIL who I sent a box of beauty products. So it was kind of easy to do the box

chainayalozhka · 11 months

We buy wrapping paper at estate sales and also reuse the bags and tissue from gifts given to us previously.

diving4the1sttime · 11 months

My sister gets my nieces to draw pictures and uses it as gift wrap.

meewho · 11 months

I usually use fabric and twine with a small related gift instead of a bow. I've used a vintage brooch (garage sale) a few honey straws, a flower, a toy car, a few lollipops or a small Christmas ornament. I generally get the fabric back.

elasto · 11 months

I don't wrap gifts. In my family we use gift bags and we reuse those each year.

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