Way #30: Talking Trash

I don't do Halloween.

The costumes? Yes. The candy? Heck yes. But the decor? Nope. Not my thing.

(unless you count window silhouettes)

When I saw the bats over on MADE last year, I filed it under my mental list of to-do projects for this year. Since I already had black paper, it was free. Who doesn't love free?

(Bats on the wall, pumpkins on the table, and I call it decorated. The random plastic bag under the chair only adds to the spookiness.)

What in the world does this have to do with how to wrap a package? Everything. When I was done, I had piles of little bat droppings.

Curved bits of paper that I could've thrown away, but being that it's ME.....well....you can see where this is going. I used a hole punch on two pieces that were the same (one flipped so that they were the mirror image of each other),

taped it onto a wrapped box,

making sure that I could still bend up the edges enough to thread through some ribbon, criss cross (JUMP! JUMP!) style. So instead of trash,

we have.....okay, kinda trashy, but in an OO-LA-LA kind of way. Hello Bridal Showers.

There are some times when you don't wanna disguise your recycled goodness. I saw this ad in my hubby's ESPN magazine and you bet your sweet aspercreme he got ripped out immediately. I'm helpless to resist that face.

Some glue sticks, a plain box, and a printed up message: so easy, even a caveman could do it.

It's just a gift, not brain surgery. HAVE SOME FUN.

If you order a bunch of kids meals at Sonic, they bring them out to you in this bag. Instead of going in the trash, it went to a party. No bow, no tag, just 3 sheets of tissue paper and called it done.

If you wanna help others go green, put your goodies in a reusable shopping bag. There are tons of cute patterns out now,

with even cuter prices.

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If you've got a garage full of plastic shopping bags, you can recycle them too.

Tutorial here

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