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Kojo Designs gives a tutorial for making your own padded envelopes. If you use supplies from the Dollar Store, I’m guessing these would be significantly cheaper than buying pre-made padded envelopes.
She also shows you how to make padded envelopes out of wrapping paper.
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That’s actually pretty cool and creative – I’m not off mailing tons of things right now that require padded envelopes, but this project makes me want to so that I can make some of these!
Very cool. My husband sells a lot of books on Half.com. We just bought padded envelopes for around .37 each…if this is less expensive and not too time consuming it’s a great idea. We bought them in bulk, not everyone needs or is willing to do that. I like how pretty they are and may do them for when I mail gifts. Thanks!
I can usually get padded envelopes for around $.33/each, so I don’t think it’s cheaper, but they sure are cute! Those would be very fun for sending gifts in.
Great Idea~ The savings would depend on the size. I just purchased approx. 30 6 X 9 size at office depot for 21 cents each.
I actually have started making my own as well, but I use the brown craft paper that is for wrapping boxes to mail (?), and I layer used plastic grocery bags in between for water proofing/padding, and I zig zag stitch it closed. Very secure, and easy to make, and recycling!
@Alisha, So you use plastic sacks instead of bubble wrap? Good idea!
If you regularly order from Vitacost you know they wrap every glass bottle in bubble wrap that is sticky on one side. This would be a great way recycle that as you could just stick the paper right to it. I think hubby has saved a massive pile of this and I could never figure out what to use it for. Thanks for the idea!
they are cute, but walgreens has them on sale periodically for cheap.
Whenever I get something in the mail in a padded envelope (from family, web orders, or even freebies), I just open carefully, remove the label and reuse them.
You could also get bubble wrap for free by asking your nearest paint-your-own pottery store. They always throw away A TON of bubble wrap when their shipments come in!
You could probably use brown paper grocery bags too…
This is adorable! I don’t see it as money saving as much as just…fun. I used to make envelopes out of magazine pages to send to friends because they just looked really cool. I have a few things to mail coming up in the next few weeks and I think I’ll take this approach – thanks for sharing!