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not spending money on gift wrap

use anything! newspaper and string! fabric! magazine pages! cover that in stickers or drawings or whatever ribbon u have! yesterday i put a box into a trader joe’s bag, folded the top down, and stapled a bow onto it & it looks adorable

@carolineheins

Dec 10, 2024

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Kamifusen / paper balloons

I got one at a museum gift shop today for $5 and I just love it honestly I got a strawberry shaped one and you literally just inflate it by blowing into the hole at the top and it just stays that way because of how it’s designed without deflating. Also these make for good room decorations

@av100

Aug 15, 2024

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paper bag snowflakes

the cutest, cheapest, easiest to make (and store) xmas decoration

@worldonfire

Dec 20, 2024

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If cats DISAPPEARed from the world

Bought this for cheap in Berlin and read this on the plane + train back to London. had to fight tears. Such a quick and beautiful read.

@ummmvia

Mar 9, 2025

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CD’s are the enduring future

like many of the other responses to this post, I think that having physical copies of media ensures that there is some enduring access. It’s archival. I would also add that having the physical copies enhances engagement with the media. This is of course a privilege bc physical media is usually more expensive than digital, but I do think that consuming Digital media is often more passive. Idk. I love my phone too (and Spotify and the internet archive and Gutenberg project). But after I started collecting CDs and physical books I became very interested in getting as much as possible out of them. listening to the same album in its entirety for weeks at a time. rereading a book (Seriously, I would rarely reread a book before). Also lending the copies to friends is the best thing in the world. Like being able to share and then discus- or even just the sharing. Whether or not you get it back it just becomes a gift. Which is nice. Anyways to blabber on this last point: I don’t think that you always have to personally own and keep forever all of the physical media you accrue. just going to a library does a lot of the same good (supporting local archiving + engaging with stuff my tangibly + media becoming communal). learning that many libraries still have VHS, CDs, and DVDs available to check out changed my life. ya.

@ummmvia

Mar 9, 2025

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COOKING FOR FRIENDS.

Something about hearing ppl having a good time while cooking and then enjoying a meal with them..., AH

@ummmvia

Apr 11, 2025