Simple Savings: Offer to Help Clean Up at Parties

I saw a tip yesterday about how to wrap gifts for pennies.  The person offers to help the hostess clean up after the party and usually the hostess only wants to keep the gift bags.  She gets all of the leftover ribbon, tissue paper and other paper and takes it home to iron it and use it again in the future.  This would also be eco-friendly since you are reusing something instead of throwing it away.