It’s that time of year! The time when our houses are bursting with plastic packing materials that we don’t know what to do with. It seems wasteful to throw it all away after one use just to let it sit in a landfill for centuries. After all, it once protected the gifts that we’re about to give to children (along with a plastic-filled and polluted Earth).

While bubble wrap is a perennial favorite packaging material (as well as cheap toy/distraction device and even stress reducer) there’s no need to ball it up and stick it in the trash after you unwrap the goods. In fact, if you can keep yourself from popping it, there are quite a few ways to reuse it.

Click through to see 50 alternatives to ditching your bubble wrap after just one use.