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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 00:41:34 +1000
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- Subject: Re: Christmas wrapping
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- >The foil sounds as if it has definite possibilities...I'll look for it
- >next year.
-
- This was the first time I had seen it around here. There were other types of
- foil wrap last year, but that was just like aluminium foil - creased and
- ripped too easily..... I think this stuff has a type of plastic coating on it.
-
- >One way I do save money (well, all right, a *little* money) is
- >by not buying tags for the packages for the family. This all started a
- >long time ago when I forgot to buy any one year...I just assigned each
- >person in the family one kind of wrapping paper and wrapped all gifts in
- >that pattern...it worked great! (Well, except for the year that I forgot
- >which pattern belonged to which person...) It was also useful in keeping
- >small people from knowing which packages were theirs, because I didn't
- >reveal the code until Christmas.
- >ndh
-
- Great minds... so they say! I did exactly the same things in the same order.
- Now I've started using rolls of adhesive labels - they don't stick very well
- in our humid climate and thus are quite easily removed. If the paper has a
- very rough texture, I sometimes print up my own labels.... what else would
- you use a computer and printer for?.... and tie them on with coloured twine.
-
- Carolyn
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