I'm dreaming of a GREEN Christmas!

[TooFarTampa]

Skunky

I found some solar powered outdoor lights tonight online at Solutions.com. I buy fresh wreaths every year for the outside of the house (made of "extra" branches, $$$ goes to a local school ). I have always wanted to light them but didn't want to run a cord. Yay for solar power! Hopefully they hold up well and I don't have to buy more for a long time.

This year I'm going to find some colorful reusable grocery bags and give them as gifts to the girlfriends I exchange presents with ... tuck several of them in one bag, add a bottle of wine and some homemade treats.

 

[Beach Runner]

Please don't decorate your car.

Some kids hit a big buck today with their car in front of our house. (It happens almost every day this time of the year.) They strapped it to their car. Maybe they should decorate its antlers and use that for their car ornament during the holidays?

 

[InletBchDweller]

string lights around your SUV so it can't be driven.

ummm sorry, but no way , my SUV will be driven
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Skunky, you are tooooooo funny!!
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We will use our Christmas tree to sink for the Bream to bed (of course so I can catch and eat)

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I am a member of the Arbor Day foundation, does that count for something???

 

[Beach Runner]

Skunky

I found some solar powered outdoor lights tonight online at Solutions.com.

Hope they work better than those solar sidewalk lamps that Home Depot sells. There's more ambient light from our town's lights bouncing off low-level clouds than there from those things.

Here's a green idea that my daughter has been doing since before green became stylish: wrap Christmas presents in glossy pages from magazines, etc. It's especially cool looking if you are artistic enough to choose the right combination of pages.

 

[savvytangerine]

Skunky

I found some solar powered outdoor lights tonight online at Solutions.com. I buy fresh wreaths every year for the outside of the house (made of "extra" branches, $$$ goes to a local school ). I have always wanted to light them but didn't want to run a cord. Yay for solar power! Hopefully they hold up well and I don't have to buy more for a long time.

Hey TooFar how are those lights looking? I would love a report once you get them and after they have been up for a while - would consider geting them myself next year.

LW and I had a blast decorating outside today. Being that we are crafty we have all kinds of goodies to reuse, along with the scraps from other projects. My favorite thing is we turned those long swim noodle things into giant candy cane decorations.

I know BB would love 'em since they are bright pink with red, light pink, or this pretty tie-dye ribbon to make the offical candy cane stripe.

(P.S We already had everything and the noodles have been in storage forever. Better for decorations than for the trash heep.)

 

[30A Skunkape]

Turn off that heater and fire up the menorahs

Hold on there, maybe the candles are more dangerous than the heater. Goodness, this is too funny.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1195546797524&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull

 

[JustaLocal]

Here's a green idea that my daughter has been doing since before green became stylish: wrap Christmas presents in glossy pages from magazines, etc. It's especially cool looking if you are artistic enough to choose the right combination of pages.

I really like this idea! I'm going to give it a try. I've been trying to think of a "green" way to wrap. Any bow or ribbon ideas?

My contribution this year was to switch completely over to LED lights. They are much brighter and save ~90% of the juice.

 

[Beach Runner]

I really like this idea! I'm going to give it a try. I've been trying to think of a "green" way to wrap. Any bow or ribbon ideas?

My contribution this year was to switch completely over to LED lights. They are much brighter and save ~90% of the juice.

We save ribbon and bows from year to year and recycle them (we have lots of fabric ribbon from free gift wraps) -- I just steam them and they look like new), so we rarely buy ribbon. Our daughter also uses paper grocery bags as gift wrap. She is really artistic -- she'll just take some random item around the house and use it to decorate a package. Also, she saves artistic-looking and nicer-quality shopping bags and uses those to wrap gifts (part of it is being a college student and forgetting to buy wrapping paper ). I always look forward to seeing what she comes up with.