A few years ago I took the decision not to buy wrapping paper, not just at Christmas but for birthdays, Valentine's Day and the rest. Using something else instead would test my ingenuity, I thought. Here is a set of wrapped gifts waiting dispatch for Christmas 2019: you can see packaging from your favourite brand of toilet paper; Lib Dems may recognise some of their election literature.

It is important not to take this sort of thing too seriously: it can be a game. Later I discovered that Oxfam would sell me old maps three for £1, greener and cheaper than wrapping paper. You probably have drawer full, from all those tourist information offices you used to go to.It is indeed a square world. Your miserliness will be a talking point.

(My mother-in-law would unwrap slowly and carefully with the intention of re-using the paper. At Christmas she was the first to open presents, which was agony for her impatient grandchildren waiting their turn, so the next year we wrapped all her presents in newspaper and threw in two rolls of unused wrapping paper. She wasn't as pleased by this as I had expected her to be.)

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