AIBU to hate wrapping presents?

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I lose the sellotape, the paper tears, the scissors are crap, my back ends up aching with perching on the edge of the settee, the dogs just plays with the paper and I end up chasing him, and I hate, hate, wrapping presents!!

I love it!!!! Make my own tags, use raffia and wax, the whole toot

I gotta be in the mood to wrap. Also I start off enthusiastic and just get bored by present no. 10.

I would LOVE to be able to wrap beautifully and am very envious of those that can. I try, I really try, but it never quite seems to work. How do people manage to tie beautiful bows? And get the ribbon to stay on the parcel without it slipping & sliding all over the place??

Last year I was so ashamed - I was meeting up with a friend just before Christmas. As I rushed out of the door I threw put the present in a gift bag. Job done. She then presented me with a colour co-ordinated, be-ribboned present that was so stylish. I was determined to make up for it on her birthday in January and really tried my best but despite my best efforts it still looked pretty naff

Hadaguts - wired ribbon for bows and use double sided tape as needed to fix the ribbon to the parcel if it slips. Hope that helps.

Snowy will give both a try thanks - and a sellotape dispenser cos I always lose the end - fingers crossed!

I love it, and get quite irate if someone tries to take the job away from me - I've been working out of the home this year and DP offered to wrap all the presents and swiftly learnt the lesson not to ask again! It's my 'job' and I enjoy it, even if I have to do it at midnight on xmas eve!!

ElizabethDarcy Wed 21-Dec-11 17:47:19
I love it!!!! Make my own tags, use raffia and wax, the whole toot

This thread is bringing out my ugly competitive streak. I'm off to wrap this very instant....

Faff I really can't hate it

yanbu - i can't stand it. My SIL always arrives with immaculately wrapped gifts and ours always look like I've done them drunk (which I normally have). I always tell her the kids did them.

I remember hearing about the Spelling wrapping room.
On Modern Family the other night, Cam had a wrapping station with different sellotape finishes - satin,clear,invisble etc. Oh, the envy.
I have bought a storage container for those rolls of paper that fall out of the wardrobe, a wrist dispenser (strangely useful) and my fave is a Scotch paper cutter from Tesco. I feel completely Cam'd up but it's made the process a little less painful.

I do now fully expect to be ridiculed!

I did enjoy wrapping. Until DP decided that Santa should wrap his presents. Next time Santa wants presents wrapped he can wrap them himself cause it took bloody hours.

I lurve it soooo much my mum used to put all of my presents into carrier bags and then give them to me to wrap!

I'm not brilliant at it but it makes me feel christmassy.

Dear God how could anyone enjoy it thats just mental? Its why gifts bags were invented surely.
Tis the season to be jolly my arse.

Those who talk about writing tags and losing pens - STOP! Buy a different colour wrapping paper for each person. No more tags. This year, DD has lilac paper, DS1 has red paper, DS2 has blue paper, DS3 has rainbow paper, and the dc's presents to me are wrapped in silver paper. No more tedious tag-writing. For other presents, I just go to the cheap card shop and buy a few single sheets of different paper.

MUCH less time consuming that way!

But then the presents wouldn't match under the tree, Hunty

Oh - and one of those Scotch paper cutter things makes it so much quicker too. Paper Cutter

You can get a set of 4 same-but-different wrapping papers though. Like 4 silver ones (or however many you need) with different patterns or pictures on. Then your presents will look more matchy and pretty under the tree.

I just do it in very different papers to make it easier to work out for the dc on the big day! I hope to have an utterly beautiful, matching tree in around 15 years time!

Those of you who struggle with the 'people have given us presents wrapped in the wrong paper' issue. Here is the solution.

Prior to Chrimbletides, acquire several empty boxes. Wrap these in your colour co-ordinated paper, but leaving them unsealed IYSWIM. When ugly non-matching presents arrive, open lid of box and pop gifts inside. Voila. Gifts are under your tree, they are still in the paper chosen by the giver, but they are camouflaged and they match.

I have not done this honest.

Oh ok, I have.

Fairy - brilliant! I will be doing that next year! Thank you.

I do different paper per person for stockings. But then you also need different paper per person for gifts from you for under the tree. It needs a spreadsheet. Did it today - took hours and my back is knackered from it.

I really need to find some of that fantastic paper that's so thin it's almost tissue paper.It came in loads of really Christmasy designs too. I absolutely adored it as a child as it was so interesting. With the presents that were left under the tree you could almost cheat and peek but it would tear so easily you knew you couldn't get away with it. The "rip" too was just so good on it. All those mis matched parcels with different Christmas images were magical.I remember sometime in the 1980's when cheap paper was replaced with plastic holographic wrap. Really bad. Soon replaced by thick paper in colour themes. Dull beyond words.

I do a paper per child, "nieces" and "nephews". Adults get what's left over from the nieces and nephews papers. I get fairly coordinating presents but they don't go under the tree (there'd be more present than tree, we only have a tiny one) I like the matchy pile each child gets.

Oh and I have longterm PGP (sacroilliac pain, mostly) and fibro, I stupidly always do my presents on the floor or bed (maybe not stupid as my table isn't big enough) so always end up stiff and achey but then I always end up stiff and achey so nothing different there.