Tagged : recycling

23 Dec

Green Gift Wrapping

by diyblogger

This is yet another gift wrapping post. This one focuses on reusing old newspapers (or this morning’s newspaper) to wrap gifts. Wrapping gifts with newspapers is a great idea considering that most wrapping papers are produced overseas, with little or no recycled content, and are used to re-package something that’s already packaged! The general idea [...]

22 Dec

Homemade Holiday Cards and Gift Wrapping

by diyblogger

Yay. I’m done with the crazyness. I’ve finished my Christmas shopping tonight. No more long lineups at the cash register, no more fighting in the parking lots, no more fracking Christmas music. All that’s left is to wrap those gifts. How about you? Done with the Christmas gifts? Maybe you don’t celebrate the Christian holiday. [...]

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14 Dec

How To Recycle and Make Your Own Paper

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This nice set of instructions shows you how to make your own paper from recycled paper. If you’re like most people, you get lots of flyers, papers and ads in your mailbox (I don’t because we have official stickers we can put on our mailboxes that say we don’t want any unsolicited bulk mail in [...]

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13 Dec

How to Wrap Christmas Gifts Using Trash

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Christmas is a capitalistic orgy of overconsumption. You know it’s true. If we’re not ready to cut down on the Christmas junk we give each other, maybe we can cut down on the junk used to wrap the gifts. This project is an interesting take on this concept: turning cracker boxes, or cereal boxes into [...]

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08 Dec

Make a Cheap Aluminum Forge

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This is a great tutorial on how to make a cheap Aluminum (or aluminium, depending on where you live) Forge. What’s especially nice is that you don’t need anything special. In fact I think I have everything that’s needed to build it in my basement. I wouldn’t do it in the house though, for multiple [...]