I love wrapping paper!!

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I like to buy my wrapping paper after Christmas when it's on sale. I have a tote that I keep it in to keep it safe all year. I like to have a lot of color under the tree.. so I try very hard to use a variety of wrapping paper every year, and try not to wrap more than 1 gift per child in the same kind of wrapping paper.. so that means I need to keep quite a bit of wrapping paper on hand (the kids typically get about 10 gifts each). Last year I went a bit crazy on the clearance rolls of wrapping paper, and had so much it didn't fit into my tote. I did all my wrapping this past weekend. As you know I finished my shopping weeks ago, and the gifts have been hidden in our vehicles since Thanksgiving. I was worried that something could happen to them and wanted them in the house, but it's safest if they're wrapped so the kids can't go snooping! While I was wrapping, I was almost able to use a different type of wrapping paper per gift... and that's a lot because as you know I have 5 kids to shop for. The younger 4 that still live at home got 10 gifts each while the oldest only got 3 gifts to unwrap.. but one of those gifts is full of gift cards. He got 2 gift cards for food, one for gas, one to Walmart and one to a sporting goods place. I also got him an outfit, a video game, and paid off a loan for him (it only had 2 payments left, but that's 2 payments he doesn't have to make!). At most I only used the same wrapping paper twice... except for one particular roll which I really liked, I wrapped one present per child using this wrapping paper. I actually still have a couple of brand new rolls I didn't open. I think next year I will aim to wrap each and every gift in different wrapping paper and not use the same roll twice. That means I'll need a minimum of 40 rolls of wrapping paper, but I probably have about half of that right now. And I bet the kids don't even notice or care.. but it's a weird habit I've picked up over the years. Are you picky about your wrapping paper?