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I had a wonderful idea today. My family are notorious package shakers when it comes to gifts… so I always try to pack the packages tight. I usually use my excess packing peanuts, but they just didn’t have that holiday feel. I was sitting there thinking what I could use – bubble wrap, extra Christmas wrapping, etc. And then it hit me…
CHOCOLATE!
I normally give chocolate with my gifts anyway, so why not use them as packing material, too! 😀
Maybe I will send myself a Christmas gift this year. 😆
That’s an excellent idea!
My roommate’s epiphany was to get me to wrap everything that isn’t for me. 😈 🙄 😆
Since my wrapping’s already done – I think I’ll wrap my presents with chocolate next year! 😀
Love the idea and they get a special treat as well! OoooOOOOooooOOOOO love the box you’re working on now–if whoever doesn’t want it, you can send it to me!!!!! 😆
what a great idea! i wouldn’t know which was better, ALL that chocolate or the gift itself, hehehe….
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I’ve seen edible packing peanuts before, but this . . . is sheer genius. 😀My dog loves to steal packing peanuts from the Windstone boxes. I’d have to fend him off of this box with a big stick!
That’s a great idea – I like using them as filler too, but when you have to pay international shipping by weight, it gets expensive. That photo sure made my mouth water, though!
I’d worry about the weight on national shipping as well. And what if a chocolate had a filling in the center? I’d worry about it leaking out if the chocolate got squished.
I wish I had known about that years ago I would have filled my (late) husbands boxes with chocolates. My mother-in-law always said her son didn’t have a curious bone in his body so I always put his presents under the tree until – one day I left the house to go to work and forgot something so I turned around to go back and get it. I walked in the house and there was my (late) husband holding a package over a steaming teakettle – oops. So much for him not being curious after that I left his stuff in the trunk of my car until Christmas Eve.
darjeb, that’s just priceless!
The only thing wrong for me with packing with chocolate is that I’m too much of a selfish chocoholic to want to share… I’d probably eat it and use the wrapping paper only!
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http://www.sarahjestin.com/feedbacklists.htmThat’s why you leave some chocolate on the side. 😉 What do you think I’m eating at this moment?? :yum:
And you are right though, probably not a good idea to ship it… it’s only going on the back seat as the trip to the family Christmas is close by. 🙂
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Dreamscape, Orion, Poison Dart, Fireberry, Spangler + Tigerberry DragonsSee, I was creative one year and took out half the chocolate covered cherries in a box and inserted a ‘Mouse’ mouse cover (this was when I was in Jr-High, but it was effective) and sealed everything back up like it had never been opened… plastic and all (I undid the seams just so. This was for my dad who just assumed he’d gotten Chocolate covered cherries again. He was also notorious for guessing what everyone bought for him (he guessed a brick and a pair of slacks – size, brand, and color – one year that my mom packed to throw him off). He didn’t guess my package. 8) The missing candies I had already added to the dish of them out already, so he was snacking on them through the day before he opened the box.
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