Good Bye Wrapping Paper, I'll never buy you again.

I have literally tossed the wrapping paper that has been plaguing my storage space under my stairs. It was too ripped up to use anyways. My cousin has an esty site and this week she has been selling cloth wrapping bag sets- complete with ribbons. So I was happy to replace my paper for something more sustainable. All my wrapping supplies now fit in a single gallon zip lock (specifically the ones they arrived in). For presents going out of the house there are lots of other options- papers from packaging/newspaper, cloth that is part of a present, ect.

Learning about Carbon Footprints of Clothing

Here is the take home quote: “What we need to do is to care for our clothes. We need to make them last longer,” she says. “Even extending the life of our garments by an extra nine months of active use would reduce the carbon, water and waste footprint by around 20% to 30% each.”

What that this say about the pieces I've had and worn and loved for 10 years?

It takes 700 gallons of water to produce one t-shirt and another 700 gallons of water to wash it over its lifetime, Benedetto says. More than 2 billion shirts are sold around the world each year.

"By 2025, two-thirds of the entire world's population will face shortages of fresh water and be exposed to hazardous chemicals from textile production alone," she says. "And one would think that it's just in China and Vietnam and India, where we're manufacturing, but this is actually having an impact on our water in Europe and in the United States as well."

And here is part of how we can handle it: ( yes read both)
 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/15/opinion/sunday/shopping-consumerism.html

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-life-changing-magic-of-making-do/?fbclid=IwAR0O5kCF8eEFlpPHw_mttGS0i-2mm3AJfY3EErKjq7yZbs3Oyy1v17wbwqM