Wrapping & Sing Carols

Do you save Christmas wrapping? Dangerous Dave talks about a survey that says over 1/3 of people will save the wrapping from their presents instead of throwing it. Plus, singing Christmas Carols is good for you.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is deeper in the den with dangerous day. So
what's your technique for opening a gift? You just rip
into it, or you're the person who wants to reuse
the wrapping paper for next year. It turns out a
surprising number people are that person. They pulled thirty thousand Americans,
and a full third of them admit to reusing wrapping paper.
Eighteen percent said they'll keep it to reuse it. Sixteen

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percent rarely reuse it, but they think they might. So
that's thirty four percent total. If you thought it was
something that only depression era or Grandma's dead, you're wrong.
The poll found young people are more likely to do it.
Only twenty five percent of seniors save wrapping paper, compared
to forty four percent of people under the age of thirty.
Women more likely to save it than men thirty eight

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percent versus twenty eight percent of guys. Now, I've opened
a gift before, gently with a beautiful wrapping, thinking hey,
maybe I'll reuse it. But to be honest, once I
see it nicely folded on the floor, it goes in
the garbage deeper in the You know, singing along with
the radio is great, but don't shy away from singing

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some Christmas carols next week. Two studies found it's good
for you in more ways than one. The BBC has
an article on how to singing is good for your health,
especially going in groups. Here's what it does for you.
First of all, you connect with other people. It relieve stress.
A study in twenty fifteen had strangers sing together for
an hour and they felt oddly close by the end.
As a matter of fact, they acted like they'd known

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each other for years. It also calms you down. Singing
activates your vegas nerve. It runs past your vocal cords,
activating it slows your heart rate, lowering your blood pressure
and telling your body it's stop producing the stress hormone cortisol.
It expands your lungs. It's good for your respiratory system,
even helps with chronic lung conditions. Stimulates your brain. Singing

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makes multiple parts of your brain light up, activates, linking
it to language, movement and emotion. And it's a better
workout than you'd think. A study in twenty twenty one
that is like going on a fairly brisk walk and
burn about one hundred calories if you're sitting twice as
much if you're standing up, if you're moving around, even
more so. Go ahead sing Christmas carols, and if you
get a chance to sing with a group caroling outside,

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it's good for you too, so go ahead and do that.
Unless it's twenty below we don't want you to freeze
your jingle bells off. Tune it again for another episode
of Deeper in the Den with Dangerous Dave right here.