Another great way keep from using gift wrap is to use what the stores give you! If a store offers you a free gift box, TAKE IT! Chances are its a very nice looking box. Talbots has beautiful sturdy red boxes with their logo embosses instead of printed, so its very easy to hide the name with a bow. JC Penney also has pretty red boxes, although they do have their name printed on it, you can cover it with a gift tag if you are clever.
I picked up a gift today for our long-time babysitter, who is retiring from our every-other-Wednesday Date Night gig, now that my oldest is a teen. I bought a box of chocolates to go with the gift card I got her and the store clerk at Godiva put it in a very beautiful off-white bag. No need to wrap this up, I just stuffed the bag with some pretty tissue paper I saved from last Christmas and it looks very pretty. Those pretty gold boxes they use are great to reuse too.
Starbucks packages their coffee and other gifts in really nice reusable gift boxes. If any of you are luck enough to get one this year, SAVE THAT BOX. These things are made to be reused so the Starbucks label is only on the tag.
I've got a challenge coming up. I'm exchanging gift with my sister this weekend and the gift I got her is in a fairly large box (think slightly bigger than a toaster). Its a kitchen item, so I'm trying to come up with a clever way to package it that goes along with the kitchen theme. Its too big to wrap in a pretty dishtowel, so I can't use that idea. Ideas, anyone?
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Okay - so how about you use those brown bags from the grocery store -wrap your box, attach assorted candy (canes, peppermints, necco wafers, etc) and make it look like a gingerbread house??? That would be a fun activity for you and your dughter and make a fun-lloking package!
okay - please ignore the sad typos in my post! I was in such a hurry......sorry
I love that idea! My neices would love getting a gift like that.
I think you should take pages from an old unused cookbook and wrap the box in those. That way you're keeping with the "kitchen theme!"
Too late now but you could've used a tablecloth for whatever size/shape her kitchen table is.
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