Decorate grocery bags or butcher paper. Try reusable baskets, tins, or bags. Trim gifts with cotton yarn, twine, shoe laces or fabric cotton and decorate with acorns or pine cones. For shipping gifts, pack with air-popped corn, newspaper or scrap paper. Make gift tags from old cards.
Trees Buy a live, potted tree that can be used again next year.
Consider decorating your favorite tree or plant instead of buying a new one. Make ornaments from reusable or recyclable materials. String popcorn or cranberries rather than purchasing tinsel. Treecycling day in SF will be on your first recycling day during the week of January 4th, 1999. Remove all bases, ornaments and tinsel.