Do you reuse your Christmas wrapping paper?

I recycle the paper, but reuse the bags.

Not the paper, its usually destroyed beyond recognition. we save and reuse the bows and bags. and, sometimes the tissue paper.

No, it never seems to survive the first time around. We buy new every year.

@john65pennington My answer to the letter. :-)

our paper is usually in shreds but we re-use the bags and if possible ribbons etc. gotta try re-use stuff and recycle as much as possible.

This is going to sound weird. My sister buys me 365 pairs of socks every year. I never wear the same ones twice. I wash them after I use them and toss them in a box.

We use the leftover paper to wrap them and donate them to the homeless shelter.

And we open our gifts on Christmas eve. Family tradition. Along with sock wrapping.

We re-use boxes and bags and trash the paper. The way we’ve done it since I was a wee one.

I recycle the bags, but the paper gets thrown away.

Ripping the paper to shreds is half the fun, sooooo… nope! We don’t reuse! ^^

Not the paper, but the ribbons, bows and doodads if they’re in good shape.

I very seldom get wrapped gifts but when I was young and broke, I saved gift wrap and used it to line drawers and shelves.

Yes, I leave everything but the name tag intact when I “regift” the lame crap I get.

We used to, when we were very broke. Now, however, we buy new each year because our house is already full to bursting with stuff, you know, the stuff you don’t want to get rid of because it could be useful, but that you never use. I have been following a book entitled Throw Out Fifty Things so I am hoping to regain our space sometime in the next year or so.

No, when there was some substance to the wrapping paper, and you could smooth it out after each use, we used to save it, but now, it rips even while we are trying to wrap the presents, and I have to double everything up. I don’t mind, because it only costs a few cents, since I buy it all after Christmas for next year.

No. It would take too much tape to reuse it again.

@johnpowell THATs a lot of socks!
@Darwin That sounds exactly like us and I think it would be an excellent idea if I read that book too! (searching for it right now lol)
..as for recycling Christmas paper ~ we used to fold any decent pieces carefully and keep them for future use, but now it’s so cheap, we buy new each year. Also, the paper nowadays (the cheap stuff that is) is so wafer thin, that most the time it’s not worth even trying to recycle it!

@SilentPurr – Just click the title in my answer – it’s a link to the Amazon listing for the book.

Yes, of course.