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Tell Whirli your tips for little ways you can make Christmas more eco-friendly: £200 voucher prize
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- Make & bake as presents: We use apples from our apple tree to make cider, we make pork pies each year (and reuse tins each year), we make chilli chutney (packaged in reused jam jars) & we bake Christmas biscuits (again reusing the tins each year). It’s become a bit of a tradition and our family ask each year for us to make the same things, and send back the tins in the new year so we can reuse them.
- Use brown paper to wrap presents: We decorate them we Christmas themed ink stamps and use rustic brown string tied round them. This means all the wrapping can go in the recycling and there is very little waste.
- Buy preloved Christmas clothes: the kids grow up so quick! This year I’ve bought a bundle of preloved Christmas clothes from Facebook marketplace. My little girl will wear them through December and once the festive season is over I’ll put them back on market place or gift them to charity so they can have another Christmas being worn/loved by a different child.
Buy charitable toys or trade toys with my family members that don't use it anymore.
Reuse wrapping paper and boxes.
Grow my own vegetables in my garden because I love gardening.
Food that has been leftover can be given to family members to take and eat at their own homes.
We will be also be giving experience type gifts to my parents and my sister; afternoon tea or theatre tickets were a couple of ideas.
Our Christmas food is coming from a farm shop a couple of miles from us too.
I’ve also bought brown parcel paper and potato printed stars on it to make eco friendly wrapping paper, and I re-use the cards we were sent the year before by cutting them down into gift tags.