It is Christmas week!  Yay!  What a great time of the year and I hope you all have a SPECTACULAR holiday season doing whatever you enjoy doing.  I am sure that many of you will exchange presents on Christmas Eve or Christmas Morning and this week’s task revolves around gift, or gift wrapping to be exact.  The green challenge that Ashley has assigned me this week to is to conserve, recycle and reuse wrapping paper.

This is going to be a very interesting task because part of this is to recycle the gift wrap that would otherwise be thrown away at our family’s houses.  We will likely spend some time at Ashley’s parents and we will also spend some time with some of my family.   My aunt has something like 15 grandchildren who all have gifts to unwrap.  This does not include the 9 kids of hers, their spouses and the various other people who may open a gift over Christmas.  My estimation is that we will be taking the used gift wrapping of about 30 people this Christmas season.

As of this moment, I have absolutely no idea what I am going to do with it and I am not even sure the city of Fargo will take it as recycling.  I have previously written about what I can do with junk mail, and I am sure there will be some similarities.   This week’s task is to collect all gift wrapping and find a way to either recycle or reuse this waste.   Please let me know if you have any unique ideas for me on this one.