A paper shredder is an awesome thing! Besides keeping identity theft at bay I like to use it to make free gift wrap tissue paper for gift wrapping bags and shipping packages.

You can shred any type of paper if you’re going to use it for shipping. If you’re going to use it to wrap a gift then I would suggest choosing your paper with the end product in mind. Even then, you’d be surprised what types of things can be shredded to make beautiful shredded “tissue”:

• odd pieces of gift wrap that are left over after wrapping a gift
• used wrapping paper that is not fit to reuse to wrap another gift
• comics
• newspaper
• magazine pages
• tissue paper that is not fit to reuse for gifts