Are you any good at wrapping presents?

[LeftyMom]

flvegan and I were talking about this earlier. Apparently he's not so good at the whole gift wrap thing. I let my inner Martha go a bit nuts. I've been known to decorate my own wrapping paper and to sew cloth gift bags. I usually wind up wrapping other people's gifts as well, since my lifelong best friend thinks festive decoration is tying the handles of the walmart bag the gift came in into a bow. People keep telling me I should do gift wrapping for money. Maybe next year I'll see if I can drum up business.

So, DUers, I ask, are you any good at wrapping gifts? Do you think it's worth the effort?

[Cheney Killed Bambi]

1. It's definitely worth the effort

But I'm no good at it. Thank god for stores that wrap gifts for you.

[Kajsa]

2. I'm so-so.

There are many out there who are
much better at it than I am.

[Lex]

3. I do a mixture of wrapping paper and decorative bags.

My problem is that I always wait until the last minute to get everything appropriately wrapped or bagged.

I've also been known to hide a gift so well, I can't find it in the house when it's time to wrap it. :eyes:

[NMDemDist2]

4. i dunno if i'm any good at it, but it's my favorite part of Christmas

I don't care for the shopping and you can give me a gift in a plastic bag tied in a bow, but i LOVE to wrap gifts the most!

sad tidings this year, we had no $$$ so I only got 3 boxes to wrap so they all got EXTRA SPECIAL treatment

:hi:

[rug]

5. The damn scotch tape always curls on my finger.

[Scout1071]

10. You need one of the wrist dispensers.

They really are nice for wrapping.

[RoyGBiv]

6. Hell, no ...

I have always sucked at it and now hate it so much I refuse to do it.

Luckily I do most of my shopping at book stores, and the one where I shop always lets some charitable organization set up a gift wrapping service for donations.

What I don't get there goes in a gift bag.

[Omphaloskepsis]

7. Oh, how I hate it.

I wrap everything like a upside-down Tootsie Pop.. Without the stick.

[Danger Mouse]

8. I always try, but I'm SO SO horrible at it....

nt

[Scout1071]

9. I'm so bad. Especially for a woman.

Yes, rather sexist statement, but it's the truth.

[deadparrot]

11. I'm good at wrapping,

but I don't do the ribbons-and-bows thing. Paper, gift tag, finished.

[jmowreader]

12. My wife won't let me near gift wrap

The first year we were married, her gifts were wrapped in accordance with the "Classified Document Packaging" requirements of Army Regulation 380-5, right down to restrictive markings: "TOP SECRET/DECLASSIFY 12-25-1993." AR 380-5 calls for wrapping the thing in two layers of brown paper. I wrapped that in regular Christmas paper.

One year I got a refrigerator box, taped all her gifts to the inside of it in various places, then wrapped the box. You haven't lived until you have wrapped a fucking refrigerator box.

Another year she got two gifts: her first gift was a very nice matching set of ring, earrings and necklace in a handmade wooden box. Her second gift, which she was asked to open first, was the saw she needed to open the first gift...because I didn't make the handmade wooden box openable any other way. On purpose.

She's wanted a tattoo of a spider on the back of her neck for a very long time, so that (and a $50 gift card) is what she got this year.