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It's a wrap!
By Compiled by Times staff
© St. Petersburg Times, published November 23, 2000
Friday begins the official flurry of holiday shopping. If you must ship your purchases, look to office supply and discount stores for padded envelopes, bubble wrap, foam packing peanuts, mailing tubes, tape and boxes of all sizes. Other fun packaging can be found in supermarkets, drug, discount and party stores, even music shops.
-- MARY JANE PARK, Times Staff Writer
Colorful boxes require no further paper or bows and are exactly the right size for presenting compact discs or cassette tapes. Holographic design CD boxes, $2.75 each; Classic Black Roses CD box, $1.50 each; Classic Black cassette box, $1.25 each. Spec's Music, other music retailers.
When wrapping your packages consider using Ziploc bags in six Grinch designs and Reynolds plastic wrap, which comes in varying colors, holiday patterns and widths.
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Ziploc offers reclosable bags in six Grinch designs (7 by 63/8 inches, 25 for $2.49) plus zippered bags large enough to hold a dress shirt (137/8 by 163/8 inches, five for $3.49). Reynolds plastic wrap comes in varying colors, holiday patterns and widths. (Extra-wide 18-inch printed wrap, 331/3 feet, $2.99.) Supermarkets, drug, discount stores.
Envelopes lined with plastic foam and decorated with festive gift wrap include adhesive mailing labels. 12- by 15-inch mailer, $3.25; 71/2- by 10-inch mailer, $2.25. U.S. Postal Service stores.
This idea, borrowed from a favorite arts and crafts shop, takes little time and looks spectacular: We used a gallon-size food storage bag (10 by 14 inches, 75 for $1.49 for a store brand) to hold items wrapped in bright tissue paper (20 inches by 26 inches, 10 sheets for $1.69, discount stores; prices may vary) and tied with curling ribbon (20 yards, 79 cents, discount stores; prices may vary). Voila!
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