Wrapping Christmas Presents

[samhexum]

[jjkrkwood]

Dont give gifts, and you wont have this problem.

[Candyman]

Oh no. I did realize the Grinch was among us

[bigvalboy]

Gift cards fit nicely inside a Christmas card...No wrapping necessary.

[Rudynate]

I used to enjoy wrapping presents. I like really nice wrapping paper and one of the little Christmas rituals that I got special pleasure from was shopping for nice papers. I still like buying papers, but wrapping I find tedious.

 

My partner and I spend a few days at a nice resort in Sonoma at this time every year. One year, we ran into a woman I know. She and her daughter had packed up all the presents and the wrapping supplies and had come up to Sonoma to stay for a night or two and wrap all the presents.

[+ poolboy48220]

My sister picked up a book for my Dad for his birthday and asked that they gift-wrap it. We watched in horror as the clerk tried to wrap it. When she got to the ends where you fold the paper over, she was crumpling the paper up and slapping a slab of tape over it. We finally said "Here, let me do this" and the clerk watched. She was amazed. So was I - I cannot remember NOT knowing how to wrap a simple rectangle. I've picked up some refining techniques over the years, but I've known the basics since before I started school.

[LoveNDino]

My sister picked up a book for my Dad for his birthday and asked that they gift-wrap it. We watched in horror as the clerk tried to wrap it. When she got to the ends where you fold the paper over, she was crumpling the paper up and slapping a slab of tape over it. We finally said "Here, let me do this" and the clerk watched. She was amazed. So was I - I cannot remember NOT knowing how to wrap a simple rectangle. I've picked up some refining techniques over the years, but I've known the basics since before I started school.

How to gift wrap? Some kids can’t even write in cursive.

[+ poolboy48220]

I'm losing that skill, apart from signing my name. I learned cursive about 1966 or 1967, but when I write now (rather than type), I print. The only other time I can think that I use cursive is writing formal replies to invitations.

[LoveNDino]

I'm losing that skill, apart from signing my name. I learned cursive about 1966 or 1967, but when I write now (rather than type), I print. The only other time I can think that I use cursive is writing formal replies to invitations.

It's like riding a bike...

[samhexum]

It's like riding a bike...

 

DOROTHY: It's like riding a bike.

 

ROSE: I never learned how to ride a bike.

 

DOROTHY: It's like falling off a bike.

 

ROSE: Oh, that I can do.

 

DOROTHY (to Blanche): Just a hunch...

 

Proving once again that there is no situation in life (even picking out my mother's casket) in which I can't quote Golden Girls.

[amused1]

In my family it's considered cheating to use tape when wrapping a gift. This "tradition" has led to some really amusing wrap jobs.

[+ poolboy48220]

In the novelization of Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, Spock had found the copy of "Tale of Two Cities" he gave Kirk for his birthday at a bazaar, then found another stall that was doing interesting origami tape-less wrapping.

 

That's my geek cred for today.

[samhexum]

But how many of you remember that there was once a hit song

about a man with great proficiency in this particular area?

[+ sf westcoaster]

Have always liked to wrap gifts. This season I am doing it at a book store as part of a fund raising effort for the SF Symphony's, Music in the Schools program.

[+ sam.fitzpatrick]

For several years, my gift wrapping had a theme. One year was brown paper packages tied up with strings, another year was red (either the paper, ribbon, or bow was red,) and another recycled wrapping from previous holidays. A couple of years ago I got lazy and didn't have a theme. It was the most fun listening to my sister trying to figure it out.

[Guy Fawkes]

[+ honcho]

Bravo!

[samhexum]

 

It would be faster and easier to grow a tree from a seed, chop it down, mill it into paper, process it into wrapping paper, and pay somebody to wrap your presents for you.

Edited December 13, 2017 by samhexum

[Guy Fawkes]

Gift bags work well for the underachievers.

It would be faster and easier to grow a tree from a seed, chop it down, and mill it onto paper, process it into wrapping paper, and pay somebody to wrap your presents for you.

[samhexum]

 

What are those? Pride flag gift bags?

[Larstrup]

 

Oh hell, no!

[Guy Fawkes]

It's a Gay Pride Triangle (Pointing Down)

What are those? Pride flag gift bags?

[Guy Fawkes]

I once bought a guest gift for a Japanese Hostess. This one was simple compared to what the little old lady did for me after the 10 minute interview about both parties.

 

Oh hell, no!

[LADoug1]

I used to spend hours elaborately wrapping gifts. I found that it only made other gift givers feel inferior about their wrapping skills. Plus it took hours and people would rip open the gifts in seconds often without any comment about the wrapping. I eventually toned it all down.

[Chuckball]

On TV gifts are wrapped so that the box can be opened without sisturbing the wrappings. Does anybody do this in real life?