As you sit around the fireplace, perhaps sipping a glass of wine ready to take on the task of wrapping all your treasures, or if you’re still trying to come up with a few last minute gift giving ideas, read on…

As you can imagine, Christmas is a very wasteful time of year. I came across a few ‘waste saving’ strategies for wrapping all your Christmas gifts this year:

1. Turn the present into packaging

Scarves, pashminas and mittens all make excellent presents and even better wrapping materials. Wrap a novel in a scarf and tie it up with some ribbon. For larger items, wrap a larger box in a pashmina and secure it with a large bow. For babies or toddlers, bundle a small toy in a receiving blanket. (CBC)

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Halloween. Admittedly one of my least favorite holidays. Perhaps it’s the sinister imagery that goes along with the day, or maybe it’s the fact that I am dressing my child up to go door to door begging for over processed, over sugared, over packaged treats (which inherently goes against everything else I have taught him about accepting things from strangers). Regardless, I try to lose myself in the excited energy of my son and experience Halloween through the eyes of a child. However, once I snap back into ‘Mommy’ mode I am reminded of the Halloween dilemmas that plague me year to year:

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