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  Homemade Tags

  And, the perfect source for recycled gift tags are last year's Christmas cards cut up into little rectangles & folded.  Sometimes you can get really lucky and cut out a piece that will fold properly with the pretty picture right on top of the tag, and no writing on the back.  Other times you just have to make it an abstract design out of snowy, wintry colors.  But I learned this trick about 20 years ago from a housemate, and have hardly ever bought gift tags since.On Umbra on wrapping creatively posted 2 years, 10 months ago 8 Responses

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  Children's Book Covers, Old Calendars

  Two items I've happily used to wrap gift in are the beautiful covers to children's books, and the old calendars I have trouble bringing myself to throw away.  They also could be used to decorate the top of a gift wrapped in plain brown or white paper.On Umbra on wrapping creatively posted 2 years, 10 months ago 8 Responses

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  Borid acid really works!

  When I lived in NYC years ago as a college student, way before I had thought to be concerned about the toxins in regular pesticides, boric acid was the only thing I found that actually worked.  I'd spread it all along the baseboards in the kitchen and bathroom, and in and around the kitchen garbage can, and the number of roaches went way down!  And my cat never showed the slightest interest in eating boric acid.

  As a side note, when I was a kid my brother and I, for a time, had a pet cockroach named Lightning, who we let crawl up and down our arms (yuck, I say now!).  But then Lightning died, and we caught another, Lightning II, and I have to admit, I never felt the same way about Lightning II as I did about Lightning I.On Umbra on battling cockroaches posted 3 years ago 11 Responses