When I was married, I received many of my wedding gifts in gift bags. The same happened when I had my first son and for birthdays and Christmas. What did I do with all those bags?
I store them all together in one big gift bag (as you can see below). I sort them by occasion, like wedding, baby boy, baby neutral, birthday, Christmas, anytime use, so I can find what I'm looking for easily.
I, of course, make sure the bag looks "like new" and check for any attached cards, so I don't pass that on. I also use new tissue paper, since that doesn't seem to keep well for a second use. The dollar store is a great place to purchase tissue paper.
How do you save money on wrapping gifts?
Jennifer
I love reusing gift bags! However, I'm usually in trouble if I have a little boy to buy for and unless I have a solid non-pastel color bag, I have to buy one. I have heard of some people using the comic strips to wrap presents as well as using their child's artwork.
Julie
I do the same thing with my gift bags. Last week, I went through them all and resorted and threw away the bad ones because everything was starting to get out of sorts. I found a ton of Christmas bags in my stash so I will be using many of those this Christmas.
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Kelly
I've also done the same except I have used up all the baby girl bags and the boy bags are going fast. I usually try to pick up bags that are on clearance. We have been known to wrap birthday gifts in comic! So, beware!
Julie
I do the same as you do 🙂
My husband doesn't wrap any gifts that he might give to me and continues to buy brand new gift bags to put gifts in...I've told him for years to just go into the closet and grab one of the ones I've accumulated (because he keeps buying them!), but typical man, he never seems to get it. Needless to say, I always have plenty of gift bags!
Cindy
I save gift bags too. New ones are simply too expensive!
Odannysgirl
I always reuse gift bags. I have some from years ago that still look new. They are just waiting for the perfect occasion or gift recipient. Actually I am reusing one tonight for a birthday party. Price on bottom says $4.29
Jennifer
I do the same thing. I always save gift bags. I also use the larger ones to carry around gifts when we got to family functions for Christmas.
If I needed to buy gift bags, I always go to the Dollar Tree. They have a wide range of sizes all for $1.