Green Holiday
Rapping on Wrapping
This year many green folk, re-
calling garbage bags from past
Christmases stuffed with mounds
of wrapping paper and ribbon,
will opt for alternatives, such as
reusable fabric covers, Sunday
funnies and old road maps topped
by natural accents like pine cones.
But some, like Heather Lionette,
of Boston, are taking this waste-re-
ducing idea a step further: They’re
not wrapping gifts at all.
Lionette says she may just
put some presents under the tree
Christmas morning and heighten
the surprise by creating a scaven-
ger hunt for her young son. She
muses that the experience may
even contribute to his fledgling
environmentalism. She also reports
that she’s received positive reac-
I long to accomplish a great and noble task,
tions to her au naturel presentation
but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks
ideas from friends and family.
Children are used to hunting
as if they were great and noble.
for things at Easter, and advocates
—Helen Keller
suggest that when little ones grow
up without the tradition of holiday
wrapping paper, it will be the gen-
esis of a new tradition.
“Wrapping paper for the
typical child is just an impediment
to getting what is underneath,” ad-
vises Bob Lillenfeld, author of Use
Less Stuff. “There’s
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