Wrapping

I absolutely hate wrapping period, I normally give it in a bag. I remember once I gave it in a garbage bag and duct tape. My friend just laughted saying typically of me to do that.

Blondie2222 For me it depends on how much time I have. I can remember past Christmases when I was up late the night before just trying to finish the wrapping..I still remember it as a terrible experience and one to sap all the joy out of Christmas. Then I started using gift bags...and it was oh so much easier..And for some gifts I even use the pre wrapped ones... Unfortunately for me I am a perfectinist when it comes to wrapping..all the corners have to be perfect and the package has to be beautiful...

I enjoy it to begin with but it sure gets old after awhile. WHen I bought my daughter alot of gifts I would have to wrap for several days, couldn't do it all in one time. I have started using alot of the gift bags. They are so cute. Especially for te adults. The young ones like to unwrap. It is quite a feeling of accomplishment too when you get all done.

I wrapped the gifts this morning, and I was happy when I finished wrapping the last gift. Now I am ready for christmas. Today it is just something that I need to do and not something that I enjoy. In the past I enjoyed it and I always did it the last days before Christmas Eve, I listened to christmas music on the radio while I wrapped the gifts and I spent a nice evening that way. Today I just wrap the gifts in a simple way, it is part of the preparations for christmas, but it not exactly something that I look forward to.

I never have much to wrap every Christmas so it is not that terrible. I make some of the presents (jams and relishes in recycled jard) To them, I just placed a colorful looking paper, not bothering to have it all wrapped up, and a ribbon with the name on it. Some of them will have to be in my fridge until tomorrow, so I cannot wrap them better. The rest are simple, but I tried to get nice looking papers for everyone. I save wrapping papers too so that I have them for next Christmas.

I used to do gift bags, but this year I put everything in boxes, which are very easy to wrap. I roll out a little bit of paper at a time and measure it according to how big the box is. This way, the process is pretty easy. I don't do anything fancy, though this year I decided to attach little candy canes to all of the boxes next to the name tags. I make the name tags by cutting a square from scrap gift wrap and writing on the opposite side. It's not fancy, but this is what my whole family does. If you don't like gift wrap, you might try using newspaper and painting it or something. A few years ago, I decided to just wrap with newspaper and made some designs over it. It depends on how picky your family/friends are. Most adults don't care, but it's fun to make the kids' presents a little fancy for them to open.

I don't mind wrapping. But I did learn to not do it all at one time. I mad sure I made time to start wrapping what I have at that present time & work that way cause I use to be just like you & do it all at once. Yes that is one way to say I don't like wrapping lol.

I love to wrap presents! Just gave a lesson to my GD this week..she hates it! But when I was a kid...mom would set up the dining room table one day and she'd have all the gifts for us to pick for each other andt hen one at a time, we'd go into the room and wrap our gifts....and the scraps...me and my sister would pick up and save..and afterwards...we'd wrap presents for the dolls etc...out of the little scraps. Thinking now, I think..how stupid...the scraps were so small and yeah for dolls but good grief...were we that deprived that we searched for something small just to warp cause we enjoyed wrapping presents so much?? Guess so! I always wanted to work in the gift wrap department at stores..back in the day when you could take you purchase to the gift wrap department and they'd wrap it for free with their choice of paper and ribbon. I wanted so bad to do that, but got married and my husband refused to let me apply for the temp job cause he didn't want to pay for the gas to get me to the job that paid minimum wage! Now.. those departments are gone and I still can't do it!!!

hi Blondie oh me tool I hate wrappoing as it never comes out neat and pretty'like some can do.I love these new pretty Christmas bags of all sizes you can put most any gift or gift s in them and they look so charming and all Christmasy and I have never met anyone who disliked them when gifted with a pretty Christmas bag and they are reasonably priced too. too

Simple all the way as most people just tear the paper off ot get ot the gift. I try to buy gifts that are easy to wrap as well as I am not that good at wrapping gifts up. I tend to wrap up in a few goes as it can get boring trying ot wrap everything up in one go. Good luck and I hope that everyone likes the gifts that you have brought for them

I used to love to wrap and tried to make every present fancy. Now I am disabled and wrapping is a pain. I don't take nearly as much time with each gift. I use bags whenever I can. I think part of why I hate it now, is that I have to wrap everything at once. Once I get the paper and stuff out, there is no place I can store it, and I have trouble getting it out, so don't want to put it away until everything is done.

I don't mind wrapping gifts too much. But I do not worry about how good its wrapped either, I just do the best I can do since your right it will just be ripped off anyway. Lol.

I love gift wrapping, and I love sometimes going all out on it but it only lasts after a couple of wrapped gifts, lol! I began to tire and get bored and lose interest and would just want everything to be over and done with. I just try to enjoy it while I can and whenever I feel like not gift wrapping anymore when I still have some more to do, I just think of the persons behind those gifts and how happy they would be when they receive it. It works for me, at least.

I hate it, because Im so bad at it. My son loves it. And hes good at it. When he was 10 he learned from the boys scouts. They would go and wrap xmas gifts for the elderly. I am terrible at it. merry xmas there.

I hate wrapping also. Ugh. It's such a pain. Everyone always knows which ones are my gifts, because I am a HORRIBLE wrapper!

Blondie...that is so understandable. In the past they had time. Now it is not only waste of time, which incidentally is money, but also waste of money because wrapping doesnt come cheap. And after all that pain, it is often thrown out. If only we could get jute bags in which we could put the gifts of the family together and deliver. The bag would be used for shopping and gifts would not be wrapped other than in the packaging they are sold at the shop. Simple, effective, and useful.

I am terrible at wrapping, but I love buying presents and spoiling Randy with quite a few gifts. I have not started wrapping yet because I have a few things to do yet like putting ornaments on the tree, making fudge and finishing my sister's homemade gift. It does not matter how good the wrapping is, but the great look on someone's face is all that matters.

It's part of the christmas rush Blondie, wrapping gifts. However, there are paper bags and ready made wrappers nowadays to buy but they are costly. I do love to receive personally wrap gifts.

I think if you have problems with gift wrapping then I suggest put it in a box so it is easier to wrap because its just a square.. before I also have problems in wrapping a gift but it changes everything when I learned how to make a gift bag., it is much complicated than the ordinary wrapping but when you get the hang of it there will be no problem.. I just make gift bags then put my gifts there then its finished..

I usually wrap fancy, but this year I had to wrap for 50+ co-workers and it was a pain! I held the wrapping back until the last minute so I ended up wrapping really bad. But then when you think about it, they would not really inspect the way you wrapped and i'm sure they'd tear right through it so I guess wrapping crappily should not be such a bad thing.