Recycle colorful wrapping paper?

use to line the back of bookshelves or dresser drawers.

You can line your drawers with them to brighten them up. Add a layer of modpodge for protection.

Really? Ours takes all paper products. Darn! Well if a large piece, I roll up and place in cardboard gift wrap tubes and save and wrap a smaller gift next year. My darling paternal grandma kept all gift wrap and lined all her closets, drawers, cabinets with them. It was a blast from the past when we had to clean out her house as there were layers and layers of this stuff - birthday, Mother's Day, Christmas, Hanukkah and every holiday in between. I should have kept them and made a history of wrapping paper book!

Crumple and stuff in loops of holiday bows to protect bows for next year, salvage to rewrap, use to decupage, cover boxes for storage of holiday decor.

Use for stuffing when mailing packages

Reuse the good stuff for next year. Plain colors can be reused for birthdays.

Cut off parts that are ripped, and save it for next year

These are very creative ideas. I think I can use ALL of them. My city will accept the wrapping paper, but they will be taken out at the recycling center and sent to the landfill. There are so many dyes, metals and chemicals in the shiny paper that it is generally not used for recycling. Thank you all for such great ideas. I’m open to more! 😇