Being frugal goes hand in hand with being green.  I never buy wrapping paper. I’ve endured too many Christmas celebrations, wedding showers and birthday parties that ended with a mountain of gift-wrap trash. Some Martha Stewart types save it all for crafts projects, but I am allergic to crafts projects. Instead, I put presents into those gift bags that are two for a dollar at the Ninety-nine Cent Store. I don’t write on the message tag, so the bag can be used again and again and again. Anyway, if I try to wrap a package myself, it comes out looking like the work of a four-year-old, so the bags save me a lot of stress.