Curate your Christmas

Christmas is a magical time for most Kiwis, unfortunately, it is also the cause of monumental wastage.

According to consumer.org.nz, approximately 50,000 tonnes of waste is predicted to flood New Zealand landfills after Christmas week, close to the weight of the long-doomed Titanic.
One way to reduce your Christmas wastage is to opt for long-lasting Christmas decorations.

A TREE OF MEMORY
This year avoid purchasing cheap decorations from department stores that hardly last till next Christmas, instead repurpose Polaroids or photo prints and use dainty wooden pegs to secure them to your tree. Or throughout the years as you travel to new places, collect items that would look great hung on a tree and save for Christmas time. Not only do these ideas use what you’ve already got, they’ll make Christmas Day, a special time to reminisce
on shared memories.

GIFTS & WRAPPING
Consider wrapping presents in intricate scarves, to avoid the mounds of wrapping paper that you’d just collect up and chuck in the bin anyway. Or help your friends and family members to curate their own Christmas collection by buying them ornaments that will last generations. Such as the show stopping Little Star ornament from Swarovski.

TABLE SETTINGS
Shop for quaint table settings that you can use year after year. Fun ones that pop up after a quick search are wooden reindeer place names, snow globes with Christmas-themed settings, and crocheted Santa, elves, and reindeer.