Regifting

Within the last year I started seriously recycling. Now, I had gone through phases of recycling but had lost a lot of faith in the lame Chicago "Blue Bag Program" which was a heap of bull. The idea is that you'd put your recyclables into blue bags and throw them in with the regular garbage and they'd be fished out later by sorters. Now, that's after being crushed and dumped and whatever else...so most of the times the bags tear open and wouldn't be fished out - even IF they really have someone there to sort them. But anyway, the point was that Ryan and I figured out that our recycling center is less than a mile away (embarrassment ensued from this finding) and I started rinsing out everything I could and piling it up in bins.

So right before Christmas I pulled out stuff from last year which included a bunch of Christmas cards that I had saved and I realized I was on a gift tag gold mine! I started cutting up my card from Cathie last year (which wound up being the majority of the gift tags I used this Christmas!), a mailer from the Gap, a post card from DEPART-ment, and next thing you know I'm addicted. Tonight I went through the cards I received right around Christmas and started cutting them up for future gift tag use. Maybe you'll recognize your Christmas card in the pile or even your thank you note! I'm happy to have added them into my gift wrapping repertoire.