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Frank_W CH.com Alumnus Offline BOHICA!!! Posts: 4213 Right behind you... Gender:	G'ahhh!!! Five seconds of full-bore rage Dec 23^rd, 2008 at 4:43pm G'AHHHH!!! Whenever I wrap presents, they come out looking like they were attacked by rabid weasels!! WTF!!!! I hate hate hate wrapping presents!!
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gizmo CH.com Hall of Famer Offline Posts: 522 Germany Gender:	Re: G'ahhh!!! Five seconds of full-bore rage Reply #1 - Dec 23^rd, 2008 at 4:46pm Then simply don't do it
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Frank_W CH.com Alumnus Offline BOHICA!!! Posts: 4213 Right behind you... Gender:	Re: G'ahhh!!! Five seconds of full-bore rage Reply #2 - Dec 23^rd, 2008 at 4:48pm I'm.... obligated.
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Artonio CH.com Alumnus Offline I Love Posts: 604 New Castle, Pa Gender:	Re: G'ahhh!!! Five seconds of full-bore rage Reply #3 - Dec 23^rd, 2008 at 4:49pm 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
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Frank_W CH.com Alumnus Offline BOHICA!!! Posts: 4213 Right behind you... Gender:	Re: G'ahhh!!! Five seconds of full-bore rage Reply #4 - Dec 23^rd, 2008 at 4:50pm Now THERE'S an idea!!
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Just Plain Carl CH.com Old Timer Offline IT IS WHAT IT IS Posts: 449 Royal Oak, Michigan Gender:	Re: G'ahhh!!! Five seconds of full-bore rage Reply #5 - Dec 23^rd, 2008 at 4:55pm Bags Bags get some Bags JPC
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Frank_W CH.com Alumnus Offline BOHICA!!! Posts: 4213 Right behind you... Gender:	Re: G'ahhh!!! Five seconds of full-bore rage Reply #6 - Dec 23^rd, 2008 at 4:59pm Hey, there's an idea! No one's going to care, anyway. The wrapping gets discarded anyway, right? Hell with it... Bags it is!
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Reply #7 - Dec 23^rd, 2008 at 5:06pm

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. Wink

Carol

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Barry_T_Coles CH.com Alumnus Offline Posts: 2073 Karratha\|,West_Australia Gender:	Re: G'ahhh!!! Five seconds of full-bore rage Reply #8 - Dec 23^rd, 2008 at 5:17pm A gift voucher in a card works for me. No strings attached
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Re: G'ahhh!!! Five seconds of full-bore rage
Reply #9 - Dec 23^rd, 2008 at 5:18pm

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 ...

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Melissa CH.com Moderator CH.com Alumnus Offline Don't give up! Posts: 7238 Central WI, USA Gender:	Re: G'ahhh!!! Five seconds of full-bore rage Reply #10 - Dec 23^rd, 2008 at 5:49pm 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...
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Frank_W CH.com Alumnus Offline BOHICA!!! Posts: 4213 Right behind you... Gender:	Re: G'ahhh!!! Five seconds of full-bore rage Reply #11 - Dec 23^rd, 2008 at 6:09pm 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!
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BobG CH.com Hall of Famer Offline Posts: 6422 St. George, UT Gender:	Re: G'ahhh!!! Five seconds of full-bore rage Reply #12 - Dec 23^rd, 2008 at 7:18pm 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.
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Frank_W CH.com Alumnus Offline BOHICA!!! Posts: 4213 Right behind you... Gender:	Re: G'ahhh!!! Five seconds of full-bore rage Reply #13 - Dec 23^rd, 2008 at 7:40pm Oh!! Involving gadgetry! Smart!! Mine look like they've been run through the Vegamatic....
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AussieBrian CH.com Hall of Famer Offline CH - It's all in your head! Posts: 3851 Cairns, Qld, Australia Gender:	Re: G'ahhh!!! Five seconds of full-bore rage Reply #14 - Dec 23^rd, 2008 at 10:43pm I wrap hers in a glass, she wraps mine in a glass, then we unwrap the prawns individually. Life is good.
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kayarr CH.com Hall of Famer Offline Posts: 1049 x1\|Portland\|USA\|usa\|36\|63\|OR,Oregon Gender:	Re: G'ahhh!!! Five seconds of full-bore rage Reply #15 - Dec 23^rd, 2008 at 11:01pm 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
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Guiseppi CH.com Moderator CH.com Alumnus Offline San Diego to Florida 05-16-2011 Posts: 12063 SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA USA Gender:	Re: G'ahhh!!! Five seconds of full-bore rage Reply #16 - Dec 23^rd, 2008 at 11:03pm 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! Joe
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Rolomatic Ex Member	Re: G'ahhh!!! Five seconds of full-bore rage Reply #17 - Dec 23^rd, 2008 at 11:05pm Joe, I can envision the GI Joe cuffed and stuffed into a Tonka truck with a bow stuck on it.
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Guiseppi CH.com Moderator CH.com Alumnus Offline San Diego to Florida 05-16-2011 Posts: 12063 SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA USA Gender:	Re: G'ahhh!!! Five seconds of full-bore rage Reply #18 - Dec 23^rd, 2008 at 11:06pm And the kids saying....yeah....daddy wrapped that one!!!! Joe
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Rolomatic Ex Member	Re: G'ahhh!!! Five seconds of full-bore rage Reply #19 - Dec 23^rd, 2008 at 11:09pm 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…
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Reply #20 - Dec 23^rd, 2008 at 11:31pm

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........
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Reply #21 - Dec 24^th, 2008 at 12:03am

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 Wink

Cathy, you have too much time on your hands girl Tongue

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.

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Frank_W CH.com Alumnus Offline BOHICA!!! Posts: 4213 Right behind you... Gender:	Re: G'ahhh!!! Five seconds of full-bore rage Reply #22 - Dec 24^th, 2008 at 12:10am 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.
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Charlie CH.com Alumnus Offline Happy to be here Posts: 18971 Jamestown, NY Gender:	Re: G'ahhh!!! Five seconds of full-bore rage Reply #23 - Dec 24^th, 2008 at 1:19am 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. Charlie Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!! You need to or
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Reply #24 - Dec 24^th, 2008 at 1:51am

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.

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