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Does anyone else actually love wrapping presents/gifting/cards?

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Lelophants · 21/12/2025 10:35

There are so many miserable threads on here about how terrible Christmas is. Hating receiving cards - they go straight in the bin! Hate thinking of presents, hate all the wrapping paper and waste. God forbid you use a gift tag!

I understand that it’s difficult time for many people, especially with the cost of living and difficult family members. All the ‘wife work.’

HOWEVER. Is there anyone who actually enjoys all this festive stuff? Like genuinely WANTS to do it?

I absolutely love it! I spend months thinking of all the gifts for different family members and friends, researching and deciding. I love picking out all the cards and different designs, getting my kids into all the crafting and creating the little name tabs. Wrapping all the gifts to make them look pretty! No, I don’t necessarily have ‘all the time in the world’ but I love it!

Yes, the floor will need a mop, but I won’t do it because I’ll be sat with the kids drawing all the name tag labels. DH will very happily do that instead! Yes, there was washing to put away, but we’re all gonna sit together and hang up the cards in a chosen area of the room. Washing is boring.

Anyone else just find it fun and heartwarming and a reason to be happy? ANYONE?

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Lelophants · 21/12/2025 13:38

TheNinkyNonkyIsATardis · 21/12/2025 10:53

I love it, but I do spread the task out a bit so it's never overwhelming. My first presents were wrapped in October and I finished by late November. 4-5 nights of sticking on a film, sipping at port and wrapping 3-4 presents beautifully.

Christmas is entirely predictable timewise and lots can be done ahead. Do tiny bits at a time and you'll never be overwhelmed by the whole, you can just enjoy it.

Yes thats how I feel.

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Silverbirchleaf · 21/12/2025 13:39

cantbearsed27 · 21/12/2025 13:35

December is Christmas month here even though DS is a young adult. We still have advent calendars including a lovely Roger La Borde one each.
We've also made lego decorations and this morning made oranges with cloves. We have hot chocolates with stollen or lebkuchen every weekend and watch Christmas films in the week running up to Christmas eve when we have a big buffet.

I used to love wrapping presents but the amount of rubbish we produced just got too much so I made loads of gift bags and boxes with old wrapping paper and ribbons, I still enjoy the whole process though. Tree up beginning of December, cards and presents written and wrapped over the next couple of weeks and then a week with DS as he's home by then.

For me Christmas is the only good thing about winter!

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Love the advent calendar. Wish I knew about them earlier, my dad would love it.

ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews · 21/12/2025 13:39

I love it. Although i have to wrap presents in small batches, cos, i get impatient and untidy.

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OnlyHereForTheChristmasBoard · 21/12/2025 17:26

I love wrapping presents - the ritual of getting out the boxes full of lots of beautiful paper and tags and ribbons, the joy of paper with a good weight and a grid pattern for cutting, pondering over which colours coordinate...

I should really spend some time with Youtube wrapping tutorials as I want to improve my style. At my local botanical gardens there used to be an annual half-day wrapping course and I've always wanted to go on something like that, but couldn't justify the cost (over a ton, and this was several years ago). Maybe one day...

familyissues12345 · 21/12/2025 17:31

I love buying gifts. I’m a total spoiler/feeder and I take a lot of time choosing presents.

I used to love wrapping, and as a teen it was my job to wrap all but my own Grin! Now I’m old, it makes me ache so I have to do it in sittings at the time. Gone are the days I could sit for hours on the floor watching a Christmas film whilst wrapping

SabreIsMyFave · 21/12/2025 17:35

ME! I love it all. 🙂 I do enjoy sending and receiving cards, but I know some people aren't too keen on that these days, so I have started to just send one when I get one first IYSWIM. Apart from 2 elderly ladies, and an elderly couple in my street (all 82-83 to 90.) I can't bring myself to not send them one if they don't send one first. Usually get a card from them around 23rd December. They're old school and their Christmas starts between 20th December and 22nd December.

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