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« on: December 29, 2006, 09:09:58 am »

Please could I urge you not to throw your used Christmas cards away. There are several re-cycling schemes you can use:



  • Look out for card recycling bins in your local Tesco or W H Smith. They collect them and pass them on to charities which make good use of them.

  • Pass them onto your local nursery, playgroup, Sunday School or infant school. They will turn them into gift tags to sell for extra funds or charity.

  • Alternatively, cut off the back portions, place them in your recycling bin and use the front to make your own gift tags for next Christmas.
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« Reply #1 on: December 29, 2006, 09:22:36 am »
 Good Idea  





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« Reply #2 on: December 29, 2006, 10:19:17 am »
This sounds like a letter from VIZ's Top Tips 

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« Reply #3 on: December 29, 2006, 10:21:53 am »

What's the worst tip you ever read? Mine is the Take A Break one where it says if you are near the end of a tomato ketchup bottle stand it in the cupboard upside down.

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« Reply #4 on: December 29, 2006, 05:52:38 pm »
actully ALot of people keep there old Xmas cards and use them the following years to beef up there xmas cards for that year....

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« Reply #5 on: December 29, 2006, 05:58:21 pm »

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actully ALot of people keep there old Xmas cards and use them the following years to beef up there xmas cards for that year....


That's seriously sad.  OK, own up - who counts their Christmas cards?

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« Reply #6 on: December 29, 2006, 06:06:09 pm »
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« Reply #7 on: December 29, 2006, 06:11:57 pm »
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What's the worst tip you ever read? Mine is the Take A Break one where it says if you are near the end of a tomato ketchup bottle stand it in the cupboard upside down.



Why is that a bad tip? It works.


The worst I saw was a woman who'd written in asking for hints on how to get a curry stain off a yellow plastic spoon. People actually wrote in with suggestions!  For some reason they failed to print the obvious one:


Throw the bloody thing away!

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« Reply #8 on: December 29, 2006, 06:16:12 pm »

  We had a useful tip emailed from our stationery department this week.  It was that too many boxes of rubber bands had been requested and could everyone please recycle them in future so that there was no need to buy new ones.  Do they seriously think we all use them just the once and throw them away?  And don't they realise that they break?

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« Reply #9 on: December 29, 2006, 06:33:40 pm »
For some reason I usually keep my cards, then throw them out close to the next Christmas period. I'll recycle them this time.