By selling xmas wrap door to door?

[wubbzy1981]

I need to know if this is a viable idea. Prices would be reasonable but I am aware of the stigma of doorstep sellers?

Would you buy from me if I came a calling?

This is a non-starter. If you have a source of cheap-but-nice wrapping paper or you are in fact making your own extra-lovely variety that you can sell at a reasonable price, get yourself a market stall (don't know where you are but most places have markets and stalls can be quite cheap on a casual basis). Or as others have said, try local toddler groups if you already attend them; one DS and I used to go to sometimes allowed one mum, who was a Phoenix Cards seller, to set up her table, and I sometimes did Avon sales/demos at groups as well.
But so many people hate door-to-door selling that it would involve an awful lot of time dragging yourself from street to street for no result.

Another one who wouldn't. I dislike sales phone calls enough without wanting someone at the door.

The real money (IMHO) is not in selling the gift wrap itself but in providing a wrapping service for all those people who find the task time consuming and difficult

NickL: Yes, I can see how that would work. But the other thing is, what would make the OP's gift wrap special yet with enough of a profit margin for people to buy it door to door when you can get perfectly adequate stuff cheaply from the pound shop anyway?

I wouldn't answer the door as I'm too busy running up drawstring fabric bags

I wouldn't but then I got all mine last week :)

Would probably be desperate to get rid of you as a) I had no money on me b)DS was desperate to get out of the door c)DD was climbing my legs and d) dinner was burning - not to mention e) inbuilt distrust of door to door sales people.

The local businesses round here who have dropped off a catalogue or a leaflet with a web address and offered to drop goods off to my house have done well out of me though. The Kleeneze catalogue is my secret shame