Wrapping presents

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I suck at it. Mom bought wrapping paper that has lines and numbered steps on it so I won't mess up. Personally, I put all my presents in pretty gift bags to save myself the trouble. That and the recipient can reuse the bag next year. It's recycling! So are any of you good at wrapping presents?

I love wrapping presents, I'm alone and I love the smell of the wrapping paper.
Though I do suck at it, it's all messy and the tape gets everywhere. It's fun for me so I enjoy doing it.

I don't mind wrapping them; it's figuring out what the heck to choose to buy for presents, that gets me all goofed up. And on the subject of wrapping, I feel bad to open presents wrapped by other people. It feels like I'm ruining something they did for me by tearing the paper off. I spend more time carefully un-taping and folding the wrapping paper neatly, than I do in wrapping presents I give to others

Charles

I find wrapping presents pointless. I know it looks pretty and it's important to NTs, but to me it's only waste of paper. I think that bags are better, they're pretty too and they're not disposable.

One of my best childhood memories is watching my mother wrap presents. She always cut just the right amount of paper--straight--and folded in the ends perfectly. I am not so skilled: the paper cuts are all crooked and the ends, well, I prefer to use a foil paper so that I can finally just mash the ends down. I use a lot of tape.

The one thing that I have learned to do that covers up my clumsiness with the paper is to use a very wide, first class ribbon. That way I can just bind the package and end in a simple bow and have the satisfaction of seeing the ribbon from the unwrapped gift carefully set aside to be ironed and used another year.

That said, I hate to wrap presents and avoid it, not by using an inferior wrap technique, but by buying fewer presents. Giving fewer presents means getting fewer presents, of course, but that's okay (no one knows my taste anyway). Eventually you can get your Christmas giving down to a smile and a wave.

I love wrapping paper. I love the smell of it and the sound it makes when you tear it. I like having my presents wrapped even though I always know exactly what I'm getting, because it reminds me of my childhood.

I'm bad at wrapping presents for other people though, so I just stick things in bags with a lot of colorful tissue paper.

I'm horrible at wrapping gifts it usually frustrates me to no end also. I aim for gift bags and when I can't I find newspaper is easier (for me) to wrap with as is aluminum foil.

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I'd rather put gifts in gift bags than wrap them. It's easier and the bags can be reused.