Are you particular about gift wrapping?

i love wrapping, and try to coordinate the paper so all the presents under the tree look "right" lol! course i arrange and re-arrange them a number of times until they look right. i dont like having packages with the same wrapping paper sitting next to each other, nor do i like it when at least half of the package cannot be seen. i do like ribbons and the little curly cue ribbons. i have to buy them pre-made though, i havent a clue how to make them myself. im also a fiend with tape. i cant stand having a bit of wrapping paper edge that looks like it just might catch on something and get ripped open. so usually every bit of paper fold/edge is very well taped lol!

Not at all. My gift wrapping skills are awful. And I mean awful! So whenever I give a gift, the person pretty much knows who it comes from. But that has become part of the fun. I do use gift bags when I can. I think frilly things would make my packages look even worse!

since i wrapped gifts at a store i worked at when i was in high school, i learned a few little tricks to making packages look nice without a lot of fuss. i do like to buy wrapping paper with a them, this year it's red with snowflakes and red with snowmen, last year it was red and white stripped. when wrapping gifts it always reminds me of when i was younger, we would drive 9 hours to spend christmas with family, and we always stayed at my grandparents house. my grandmother wouldn't have one gift wrapped, even though she had all the shopping done and all the paper, she would wait and me and my sister would wrap all the gifts for her.

I don't exactly slap it on, but I do not take a lot of time picking out pretty ribbons and bows and all that. I have been doing one wrapping paper for each kid and one paper for everyone else.

Nope :D I wrap gifts only to conceal the content. And besides, I already spent a lot on the gift itself, I'm not spending more on the wrapper. So I pretty much like it a lot when the shop offers to wrap the gift for free...or for a really cheap price :D I also don't mind if I receive poorly wrapped gifts, as long as they're wrapped! I like tearing out the wrapper, it makes me feel like it's my birthday. Thanks for commenting in my discussion!

I used to spend almost as much time wrapping things as it took me to buy them. Fancy paper, lace, ribbons, bows, doodads....you name it. They all found their way onto my packages. To be shredded without heed in about 5 seconds flat. Slowly I've digressed to the point where stuff is wrapped in tissue (no tape, so we can reuse the tissue)and put into Christmas bags. Where I used to lock myself in a room for a couple of days making everything pretty, now I'm done in about an hour.

Trouble is when they are so nicely wrapped up, covered in bows and ribbons and look attractive you just don't want to open them! They look far too good to open! It's a shame don't you think that someone's hard work and pride is torn apart in a matter of seconds! To be honest I am not that particular in wrapping presents, I wrap the presents well and they are neatly done but I am not too fussed on colour coordination etc, considering the paper won't stay on for long.

I have been told by family and friends I should wrap gifts as a carreer. I tend to take my time making sure the end flaps are nice and squared off evenly. I like to make sure there are no wrinkles etc in the wrappinmg. I take my time with each and every gift I wrap. OI color corndinate ever so often with ribbons and bows as well. I prefer my gifts to look semi professionally wrapped I guess. I am not perfect but I do my best each and every time. HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~

i hate wrapping presents because i just can never get the corners just right or cut the paper straight! i do, however, make my own tags, and most people just look at the tags and not the horrible wrapping job! lol

I'm good at gift wrapping, but I hate doing it. Back in the late 70s and early 80s, I worked as a customer service manager in a large department store. I had to train customer service personnel to wrap the "correct" way, so I know the best ways to wrap. And I will use what I learned if I'm wrapping a wedding gift. But for Christmas and birthdays, most people tear off the paper so quickly that they don't even notice how the package was wrapped. So...I use lots of gift bags.

hi, fasttalker i like making wrapping my gifts and making them look pretty. however, i do not like buying wrappers and ribbons. so i re-use wrappers and ribbons from gifts given to me. sometimes i use plain paper and just put a really nice ribbon. take care!

I think of gift wrapping like making my bed in the morning. "what's the point?!" haha I mean the person is just going to rip it up and we just lay in our beds and mess them up again! This doesn't mean that I don't try to make the gifts look nice. They aren't perfect, but they are presentable. - vanonas www.thelendingstory.com