Every year I forget...

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Just how much I hate wrapping presents..

I look forward to doing it, thinking how Christmassy it is, but then I start doing it, and I think for fucks sake. I hate it.

It makes my back ache, I get frustrated when the paper doesn’t fit properly and there’s loads of stupid little pieces left over.

Every.Single.Year..

Yes I wholeheartedly agree.

I'm so crap in wrapping!!

that was me when the kids were little and at home and had tons of pressies to wrap now they are all left home they get their presents in gift bags and the grandchildren get a nice shiny ten pound note straight out of the cash machine makes life a lot easier

I’ll do them, I love wrapping presents

Someone on here suggested sitting on the sofa and wrapping on the ironing board. I haven't tried it myself.

I went fabric years ago, now I just open fabric bag, drop present in, close it with the drawstring, put it in the bag for life labelled DS/DH. That's it. Zero effort. Samevriyh birthdays.

I wrap about three or four gifts a year as they're for other children, or they're posted. Stuff for us or for friends gets the fabric bag treatment (because they're given in person and I just take the bag home!).

My 9yo loves seeing the same fabric every year and can sometimes remember what it wrapped previous years.

Ooh, I just remembered another tip: bung £10 to a teenager and get them to wrap it. (Covid allowing).

I watched an (old) episode of Gavin and Stacy at the weekend where Smithy wrapped everything in tin foil. Just fold to fit and no sellotape. Bloody genius. What can't this be adapted for real life !

I used to hate it, but discovered using an ironing board really helps. I do all the wrapping in my bedroom and when I tried to wrap on the bed I'd get back ache, or lose things. Or the cat and dog would lie in the middle of everything and knock piles over.

Oh I'm just having a break from doing mine too! I always forget how long it takes as well, I reckon I'll be a few more hours at it tomorrow night too 🙄

Ooh I’ll do them love wrapping presents 🎁 can I put lots of ribbon and little jingle bells on?

Why do something you don’t like! Just don’t bloody do it in future

I always forget how bloody long it takes. I like doing it but seriously....
This year as we've had to scale things down I haven't done tags (there's only 3 of us) and I've colour coordinated everyone's gifts.

I love it! I have memories of special wrapping paper from years ago. I remember the shiny bright pink paper with santas on it that my mother wrapped books in during the 70s. She used to unwrap her gifts carefully and we'd reuse the paper the next year.
Wrapping gifts is so much more than just taping paper around boxes.

Or lay everything out on the sofa (or sofa = child one, coffee table = child two, armchair = partner, fireplace/TV = you). Unwrapped. You still wake up to a pile!

Cover them up with a casually tossed duvet cover - blame the EOTS if you have one

To be honest we don’t now, we just put in large Christmas bags, in-laws understands dh is not bothered.