My mother sent me many beautiful gifts for Christmas, including lovely ones that she made herself. I will cherish them.

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Turn used gift wrap into something crafty, enliven boring storage, or use it as packing material. Here's how get more use out of your wrapping paper.

Acceptable Christmastime recycling items include boxes, paper gift bags, tissue paper, cards and envelopes, and wrapping ...

The holidays are by far the busiest time of year for the Loveland Recycling Center, with hundreds of cars coming through each ...

There are gifts that actually improve with a little time — spiced nuts, granola, brittle, caramel corn, spice blends, pickles ...

Subscription boxes are the rare gift that keeps its charm long after the wrapping paper is gone. You make the choice once, but the surprises keep landing on their doorstep for months after that. For ...

“Once,” Civility said, “I was the belle of the Christmas ball. It was the time of year when I shone the brightest. People were polite. They were kind and charitable. They went door to door caroling.

An ornament was inside the box — a replica of a compass, with the words, “On to New Adventures,” inscribed around the ...

People think they have permission, because this is happy time, to just throw it away,” Talen said. “There’s tons of thrown-away garbage as a result of our Christmas habits. If you want to back away ...

The holidays are a time for generosity—and what better way to celebrate than by choosing gifts that give back?

To give art or an antique is to provide more than an object. It is to offer a story, an aesthetic judgment, and a piece of ...