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Upcycling /recycling or reinventing the wheel?

(27 Posts)
tanith Mon 30-Dec-19 12:20:38

Wrapping presents with brown paper and string, very NOW it seems ?

MawB Mon 30-Dec-19 12:14:47

I am hugely amused - in a cynical sort of way - at how my AC and others of their generation are embracing eco- friendly actions as if they had invented them
For instance DD was massively impressed by “how clever” her high-flying City lawyer friend had been, cutting up last year’s Christmas cards to make this year’s gift tags.
Ahem? Excuse me?
When they were babies (over 40 years ago) I and my friends did that using pinking shears (because of course we made our children’s clothes too ), punching a hole in the corner and not only using them ourselves, but doing them into packs of 5 or 10 to sell at the church Christmas Bazaar.
What else qualifies as “nothing new under the sun” ?