G'AHHHH!!! Whenever I wrap presents, they come out looking like they were attacked by rabid weasels!! WTF!!!! I hate hate hate wrapping presents!!  [smiley=furious.gif] [smiley=furious.gif] [smiley=furious.gif] [smiley=angry.gif] [smiley=angry.gif] [smiley=bigcry.gif] [smiley=bomb.gif]

Then simply don't do it  ;D ;D ;D

I'm.... obligated.  :-/

Wrap presents?! Oh no... if you're still wrapping presents the old fashioned way, you're doing it all wrong... sheesh... why do you think they make spray paint?  :)

with warm regards,
Tony

;D ;D Now THERE'S an idea!!  ;D

Bags  Bags    get some Bags
            JPC

Hey, there's an idea! No one's going to care, anyway. The wrapping gets discarded anyway, right? Hell with it... Bags it is!  [smiley=thumb.gif] [smiley=thumb.gif]

I'm so glad that I don't ever wrap gifts.  Bill loves to do it (like Frank, I hate doing it) and wraps all gifts for 7 kids and their mates, along with 10 grandkids and assorted other family members!!! Now that's some wrapping.  Heck, I even put his gifts in front of him in a box and when he's done wrapping, I put a tag on it!!!!

Sorry for your troubles, Frank.  I think the others are right - bags are the way to go for you. ;)

Carol

A gift voucher in a card works for me.
No strings attached ;D ;D

Artonio wrote on Dec 23^rd, 2008 at 4:49pm:

if you're still wrapping presents the old fashioned way, you're doing it all wrong... sheesh... why do you think they make spray paint?

Frank_W wrote on Dec 23^rd, 2008 at 4:50pm:

Now THERE'S an idea!!

Yes, it IS an idea ... a pretty shitty idea, but, yes it IS an idea ...

I take great care in wrapping gifts.  They are always nice and neat without a ton of tape used.  I learned from my grandpa. :)

And ditto on the bags, at least you can't screw that up.  Well, I hope... :-/

I wrapped three. I thought I was getting better at it. The third one looks like it was run over by a truck.  :-/

Bags. Definitely. My wrapping skills suck!!  Hrmph!  >:(

You all know about a Seal-a-Meal, right? Put tissue around the gift, stick it in the Seal-a-meal bag, suck all the air out and presto! Done.

;D Oh!! Involving gadgetry! Smart!! Mine look like they've been run through the Vegamatic....  :-?

I wrap hers in a glass, she wraps mine in a glass, then we unwrap the prawns individually.

Life is good.

I hate to wrap as much as I hate to shop.  After not very long,  I feel the frustration rising up and I want to cuss.  

I take it a little at a time so I don't have to do it too long.  Oh, and they look horrible.  SUE ME!  

Kimberly  

Thank God for grown daughters! Mine comes home and wraps all mommy's gifts. I'm like you, when I wrap a present......everyone knows daddy wrapped it! ;D

Joe

Joe, I can envision the GI Joe cuffed and stuffed into a Tonka truck with a bow stuck on it. [smiley=crackup.gif]

And the kids saying....yeah....daddy wrapped that one!!!!

Joe

My problem is; I do way to meticulous of a job at rapping only to find that I forgot to label them, and being clueless as to who gets what… ::)

Frank, bring em all to Oregon next time.I LOVE to wrap! well, I LOVE to create beautiful presents people hate to destroy! I begin with special paper for each family member, then I like to do really pretty bows n such.......or, for those I can, I create special baskets, wrap them in tulle the decorate those!  Err, there are certain people who don't care about the wrapping....they get gift bags.......or I have a collection of boxes, decorated for Christmas. If ya get one of those, ya gotta fill it and give it to someone the next year.
My best suggestion for those who hate to wrap is that you find some sturdy, packable boxes, GLUE your choice of paper on them, so they become permanent......then load em up with tissue, and VOILA! All they need is some pretty ribbon!
I like pretty things........
Cathi :D

Wrapping for our crew took four nights this year.  Neither of us love to do it but after 28 years and 10 kids we're pretty good at it.

Each gift gets three pieces of tape to hold it together.  That is unless I manage to tear a whole.  Then the whole gets another piece.

I'm not too careful.  This stuff has a lifetime of about 30 seconds.  And that's only if it's on the bottom of the pile  ;)

Cathy, you have too much time on your hands girl  :P

Tony, I'm with Chuck on your idea.

Roland, I write the label before I start wrapping.  That way I almost never screw up.

Brian, I'd be arrested for contributing to the delinquency of a minor.  Several of them in fact.

Barry, that worked for the three oldest and their significant others this year.  That cut down on quite a few gifts to wrap.

-Dennis-

Cathi, that's a tempting offer, believe me! Hahahahaha.... Okay. I'm finished. My packages - Four of them look like they might have been dropped during a stampede. The rest of them are in beautiful bags.
 ;D

Duct Tape and twine. What's the big deal?

Seriously, I kinda like a way to dump excess packing materials while making boxes for all the hideous pajamas I give away.

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I stink at the whole wrapping thing.

Fortunately, I'm married to a woman whose father was an engineer, and I have a daughter who's an artist.  Between the two of them, it all works out.  I get the artist to wrap the stuff for the engineer's daughter, and the engineer's daughter to wrap stuff for the artist.

I'm hopeless, and they both know it.

Best,

George

What's really nice, is the look my wife gave me as I placed the wrapped (mangled) presents under the tree. They look so rough... She came over to me, put her arms around me, and said that to her, they look "very masculine," and that they made her smile.

Shucks... Life is good. :) :)

Merry Christmas, y'all!

Ah, Frank, you need to attend Jimbo's school of guerilla wrapping.  For a small fee, you will learn the basics of wrapping and, you will learn how to disguise presents so they will confuzzle and flustercate the recipient (no extra fees for this)!  No need to bring anything to the class, all items are provided (such as pieces of channel iron, rebar, plywood and or 2X4s, bricks, bolts, nuts, etc.).  Now you might wonder how these items come in to play?  Well, you'll have to take the class to find out!

Carolyn, who has been amazed year after year when unwrapping presents!

Frank_W wrote on Dec 24^th, 2008 at 9:41am:

What's really nice, is the look my wife gave me as I placed the wrapped (mangled) presents under the tree. They look so rough... She came over to me, put her arms around me, and said that to her, they look "very masculine," and that they made her smile. Shucks... Life is good. :) :) Merry Christmas, y'all!

Well, then, Frank, m'boyo, looks to me like you need no help at all.....as long as you have wrapped blingage in there-a poorly wrapped electric broom will likely render you in pain, but your 'manly gifts', when opened, should bring you your own brand of joy-as long as you bought the right things......!

Merry Christmas Jeepie........it's really good to have ya back!

Cathi :-*

;D Thanks, Cathi. Merry Christmas to you and yours...  ((HUGGGG)) :)

Try wrapping gifts with a broken wrist...


...my tongue still tastes like scotch tape!!    :P


DD

Poor Donna...  ;D  [smiley=hug.gif] [smiley=hug.gif]

In my family, it's just not Christmas without Uncle Greg's gifts....

You can tell which ones are from him, because he has a "few beers" on X-mas eve, then wraps stuff up, rather wad-like, in newspapers with some tape placed haphazardly here and there.

The fun comes when everyone tries to guess which gift is which, because he forgets to put names on them.

The piece de resistance was the year he used Piggly Wiggly grocery handouts and duct tape.  It's almost sad now that he's sober.  :D

;D I'm almost as good as he is, even without consuming alcoholic beverages!  ;D