If you haven’t already got a present for the Dads in your lives, it’s probably a good time to refer back to my BlogGreen post of a few weeks ago where I suggested that buying into the commercial side of Father’s Day is not necessarily the best thing for the environment and that there are other (more valuable) gifts that you could give your Dad.

If you have bought him a gift, I hope that you’ve gone green and bought him something that at the very least is not damaging to the environment in its manufacture and very existence.

You’ll need to wrap your gift up next. Here again, please consider taking the greener route by using recycled gift wrap, either manufactured from recycled paper or simply paper that you received a gift in and saved for re-using. Another eco-friendly route that’s very easy on the pocket is to use newspaper or magazine pages to wrap the gift, and you could jazz it up with potato prints, or some cut-out stars, or pretty ribbon.