"New Year, New Me!"
As we leave 2025 behind, the beginning of a new year can feel just as refreshing as it can be overwhelming. With everyone making New Year's Resolutions, there seems to be a pressure to change each of our bad habits with the beginning of a new year.
In this blog post, we want to encourage you not to stress about it. Resolutions do not have to be huge, life-changing milestones or actions, they can be small, repeatable habits. By setting unrealistic, perfectionist goals for yourself, you may set yourself up for disappointment.
Since we are a sustainable wrapping brand, we want to encourage you to incorporate fabric wrapping into your new year, possibly making it a new sustainable resolution. Although gift wrapping may be only a small part of your year for birthday or holiday gifts, it is a small part of your life where you can make big changes without having to compromise too much.
Why Wrapping Matters More Than We Think
Sustainability is becoming an increasingly important topic in all areas of life. Each year, millions of tonnes of wrapping paper end up in landfills and cannot be fully recycled due to dyes, laminates, or non-paper additives. This harms our planet for decades to come, even though the tradition of gifting should be beautiful and not wasteful. And it's not only about gifts that we wrap. Everyday items like food are packaged in plastics or paper as well.
Wrapping is a visible and an emotional habit. Whether we wrap a gift or our own food, the presentation matters. However, if this presentation harms our planet and in consequence ourselves, we have to do better. Fabric wrapping is one such way to find new and practical ways to wrap without harming the environment. As a beautiful and reusable alternative, incorporating fabric wrapping into your life can change your view on our environment, all while practising mindfulness and respect.
10 Sustainable Resolutions
We want to focus on wrapping smarter and more sustainably in 2026. Keep reading for 5 Resolutions that are easy to keep, so you can start into this new year with confidence and purpose.
1. Choose Reusable Over Disposable
Whether you're wrapping gifts, your food on the go, groceries in your storage, or clothing in your travel bag: choose reusable over disposable whenever you wrap.
Find new ways to exchange plastic and paper wrapping by opting for more sustainable alternatives such as fabric wrapping or beeswax wraps for unpackaged foods. Although the sustainable alternative may often be the more expensive one, it is oftentimes reusable and therefore an investment in your own future and that of our planet.
2. Let Gift Wrapping Become Part of the Gift
Whereas paper or plastic wrapping are single-use and could only be reused when opened carefully, fabric wrapping is durable and can be reused for many years to come.
When we give someone a gift, we want the presentation and wrapping to represent our love and care for them. Allow packaging to become a keepsake that can be reused and cherished by the recipient of your gift. For instance, if you're wrapping in a nice silky fabric, the recipient can not only reuse the wrap for their own gifts in the future, regifting it to someone else, they can also use it as a stylish accessory or a practical companion in their daily life.
3. Wrap for Reuse, Not for Perfection
We all love a Pinterest aesthetic, but oftentimes that presentation is too idealistic. Sometimes we don't have time to spend hours on wrapping a gift to perfection and that's fine! We want to encourage you to think of wrapping's purpose for reuse. Focus less on wrapping a perfect gift, and settle for an equally beautiful, imperfect wrap that will serve a purpose long after it is unwrapped.
With fabric wrapping, you are not only showing care for the planet, you are also giving the recipient a practical tool for reuse that can enrich their own lives and help them incorporate sustainable practices into their daily lives as well.
4. Use What You Have
You don't need to invest in an expensive furoshiki for wrapping. Look around your house and you will find many things suitable for the task: scarves, tea towels, or fabric remnants make the perfect wrapping and they don't cost you a thing.
And even if you decide not to wrap in fabric, there are plenty of items in your house that you could use as gift wrapping, such as newspapers or old sheet music.
5. Be Intentional
When it comes to wrapping, put the ritual over the rush. The art of gifting is beautiful and connects people, so take the time to wrap those gifts as well and wrap them with love and time. Make the act of gifting more intentional and slow down.
This can help you be more intentional and mindful in other areas of your life as well, for instance, when it comes to consuming media or going out into nature more.
A Kinder Way to Live in 2026
The only way (sustainable) resolutions can stick is by making them realistic. Think of small and repeatable habits and ways instead of big lifestyle overhauls that you cannot accomplish overnight. The reason why we wanted to talk about wrapping more specifically is because these resolutions can be applied to other areas of life as well. Beauty and usefulness increase habit retention. Being more mindful, slowing down, doing things with more intention - these are the things that will make you actually reach your goals. Your resolutions should support your life, not complicate it.
As a brand, we see fabric wrapping as a symbol of thoughtful living. Wrapping smarter means caring for the planet and the people living on it. We hope that we can encourage you to carry these habits through the year, one wrap at a time, and perhaps you will apply these values to different parts of your life as well.
To begin the new year, don't list hundreds of resolutions, but start with one. Which habit feels easiest to begin with? You do not need to turn your life around from one day to the next. In fact, it feels encouraging to achieve small steps and then move on to something bigger. Whether your resolutions are wrapping-related or not, we want to encourage you to start your year mindfully and stress-free. Let your resolutions motivate, not discourage!