Edit: wow! Lol, but awesome too! Good for the environment.
You can iron reused wrapping paper to make it smooth again?
Didn’t know Germany had a wrapping paper issue. If you need help Germany I can send over a couple of rolls.
We used to reuse wrapping paper too, when I was little.
Looks like Carole Baskin.
I mean ironing is going a step too far but reusing wrapping paper? Def, everything else is just a waste of money.
I’m a Pole and it is also a thing over here, at least it was when I was a child. Maybe it was because of different reasons tho…
Never done that, but I totally reuse paper gift bags. No ironing required (fuck ironing).
She was old even when she was young
This infers that Germans never rip open their presents, they pry them open neatly to aviod damaging the paper. Very German of them.
Ah, the old times before 2005. back then her own party had to force her to go to an hairdresser, to use makeup and to buy decent clothings.
You have to give it to her, she is definitely not interested in luxury things.
Pretty cloth and ribbons wrapping for the eco win.
Somehow Young Merkel looks older than Old Merkel
Isn’t it common practice everywhere?
The only person I know who never reuses wrapping paper is my new money aunt, who ironically grew up in Germany.
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She has always looked the same age, but that number has also always been completely unindentifyable
Merkel was federal minister of the environment from 1994-98.
This could be from then, looks like a typical public signaling from that time, when people were naive enough that separating trash would save the planet. Ahh, the 90s…
Afaik half the world does this. My mom, bulgarian, used to do it too. Stuff like wrapping paper is so easy to reuse, takes 1 minute out of your day. But that’s 1 minute of the hub, netflix or steam you won’t get back, am I right 😛
How did she look worse when younger, lol?
American here. Do y’all not use gift bags?
You should actually iron the side without the print so that it stays intact. The more you know
Why not just use a reusable gift bag instead? It’s adaptable to items of multiple different shapes and sizes unlike wrapping paper and generally holds up better when reused
After all she grew up in East Germany.
Even better Idea : Wrap shoeboxes or boxes from tree decorations in paper – simply put gifts in and add a nametag after winter you can store chrismas decorations in them . . . simple
I approve, I slowly unwrap presents to get them to that state and my family makes fun of me while I do it, egging me on to rip it open. My nieces call me an old man.
Why is she using an iron on paper? Wouldn’t it burn?
Is that German?! I thought it was just “grandma”!😜
Just a question about the picture in background, can someone tell me who the artist is? It looks very pretty and I would like to find out more!
Merkel burning coal to power her iron so she can virtue signal.
Reusing wrapping paper is pretty common, and it is also the reason why I hate it when people use industrial-strength adhesive tape to wrap things up.
My girl and I are even reusing birth day cards. We just x-out the name and write the friends name next to it. We just do it for fun and with very good freinds and family.
I find Financial Times also a good choice for wrapping presents. Cos they are slightly pink.
Here in Bosnia we also reuse wraping paper.
Some wierdos keep a collection.
Who doesn’t reuse it?! It’s such a waste otherwise.
People who did lived in those times do not see nothing unusual about it, it was a norm. Everything was reusable if you had been creative, and lack of single use plastic everywhere like today did make sense of it.
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Germans reuse wrapping paper?
Edit: wow! Lol, but awesome too! Good for the environment.
You can iron reused wrapping paper to make it smooth again?
Didn’t know Germany had a wrapping paper issue. If you need help Germany I can send over a couple of rolls.
We used to reuse wrapping paper too, when I was little.
Looks like Carole Baskin.
I mean ironing is going a step too far but reusing wrapping paper? Def, everything else is just a waste of money.
I’m a Pole and it is also a thing over here, at least it was when I was a child. Maybe it was because of different reasons tho…
Never done that, but I totally reuse paper gift bags. No ironing required (fuck ironing).
She was old even when she was young
This infers that Germans never rip open their presents, they pry them open neatly to aviod damaging the paper. Very German of them.
Ah, the old times before 2005. back then her own party had to force her to go to an hairdresser, to use makeup and to buy decent clothings.
You have to give it to her, she is definitely not interested in luxury things.
Pretty cloth and ribbons wrapping for the eco win.
Somehow Young Merkel looks older than Old Merkel
Isn’t it common practice everywhere?
The only person I know who never reuses wrapping paper is my new money aunt, who ironically grew up in Germany.
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She has always looked the same age, but that number has also always been completely unindentifyable
Merkel was federal minister of the environment from 1994-98.
This could be from then, looks like a typical public signaling from that time, when people were naive enough that separating trash would save the planet. Ahh, the 90s…
Afaik half the world does this. My mom, bulgarian, used to do it too. Stuff like wrapping paper is so easy to reuse, takes 1 minute out of your day. But that’s 1 minute of the hub, netflix or steam you won’t get back, am I right 😛
How did she look worse when younger, lol?
American here. Do y’all not use gift bags?
You should actually iron the side without the print so that it stays intact. The more you know
Why not just use a reusable gift bag instead? It’s adaptable to items of multiple different shapes and sizes unlike wrapping paper and generally holds up better when reused
After all she grew up in East Germany.
Even better Idea : Wrap shoeboxes or boxes from tree decorations in paper – simply put gifts in and add a nametag after winter you can store chrismas decorations in them . . . simple
I approve, I slowly unwrap presents to get them to that state and my family makes fun of me while I do it, egging me on to rip it open. My nieces call me an old man.
Why is she using an iron on paper? Wouldn’t it burn?
Is that German?! I thought it was just “grandma”!😜
Just a question about the picture in background, can someone tell me who the artist is? It looks very pretty and I would like to find out more!
Merkel burning coal to power her iron so she can virtue signal.
Reusing wrapping paper is pretty common, and it is also the reason why I hate it when people use industrial-strength adhesive tape to wrap things up.
My girl and I are even reusing birth day cards. We just x-out the name and write the friends name next to it. We just do it for fun and with very good freinds and family.
I find Financial Times also a good choice for wrapping presents. Cos they are slightly pink.
Here in Bosnia we also reuse wraping paper.
Some wierdos keep a collection.
Who doesn’t reuse it?! It’s such a waste otherwise.
People who did lived in those times do not see nothing unusual about it, it was a norm. Everything was reusable if you had been creative, and lack of single use plastic everywhere like today did make sense of it.