Going green about red and green

Anyone who knows me would laugh at the thought of me being an environmentalist. I love the great outdoors, as long as I am viewing it through a nice, large picture window. However, I am, without a doubt, cheap and frugal! And some of the nice things about being cheap and frugal is that is also happens to be good for the environment. I shudder when I think about how much electricity ($$$) the clothes dryer uses, so whenever possible I hang my clothes out to dry. I try to never let the dishwasher go through the dry cycle...air drying is great! And I detest wrapping paper! Now, I'm not totally "green". My kids' gifts will be wrapped in Christmas paper and I just can't see myself changing that. However, nearly everyone else receives their Christmas gifts from our family in gift bags. Because I save them when I receive them, I basically didn't have to buy any this year. I love that! And to save on some of the tissue paper that is in the bags that also winds up in the trash, I try to use the disposable grocery bags (I have definitely been known to forget to take my reusable cloth totes into the store with me!) to stuff the bottom of the gift bags, and then only one sheet of tissue paper on top. The gifts still look great, and my family is also great about saving bags and using them again. In fact, I know of one gift bag that has passed back & forth between our house and my in-laws several times now!