Gift bags. They’re just a bit naff aren’t they?

[AnnDaloozier]

A bit Clinton cards, Facebook, live laugh love.

A gift bag user would have guilty pleasures and definitely not give head.

(Plus they’re bad for the environment of course)

Lush did that shit thing with your grandma’s old scarf. Remember?

You reuse the card? Good god.

I don't wrap as well!
I wrap.
Then I occasionally use a gift bag as well if a bag is needed to transport the gift nicely.

Lol @ShagMeRiggins

Saving and reusing the card is a level of organisation I cannot hope to aspire to

But then you have to hold the shitting bag in a bar or wherever and everyone CAN SEE

You’re losing me now.

Everyone can see what?

That you’re giving someone a present?

That you’ve received a present?

Because a wrapped present is somehow invisible? And wrapping paper somehow disappears once removed (if committing cardinal sin of opening gift upon receipt in public )

The best friends give you a gift bag with a plain tag so that you can reuse the bag AND tag.

Like PP, there are gift bags that fly back and forth in my friendship circles. I can put multiple things in one bag, so I'm not using multiple bits of sellotape wrapping each present individually, and I can pop the card in there too. For new labels, I have a stack of white parcel labels that you tie on from Wilko and I use those.

FWIW, I loathe those decals, never shop in Clinton's (Card Factory is next door and considerably cheaper), don't use FB and my DH is happy with my head giving frequency. But I only iron if I need to.

Do you have this week off OP so just killing time?

Gift bags get reused round these parts and certainty aren't bad for the environment.

You just aren't gift bagging properly OP.

I use gift bags. Surely they're far more environmentally friendly than single use wrapping paper?! And no, I don't ever write in the card and neither does anyone I know. Because we all fully expect the reciever to use it again.

Sometimes I wrap the things in the bag in tissue paper with no sellotape. Also can be used again.

And if you want peak mumsnet middle class lentil knitting bollocks I wrapped my Xmas presents this year in brown parcel paper, no sellotape, tied with string made from organically dyed fucking sheep's wool!!!

I'm not sure I own an iron. I haven't seen it since we moved 2 years ago.

Would you rather have a wrapped gift on the table OP? I'd rather be given a gift bag if we're out as it's asked to carry. I'm not 6, I don't need a stack of wrapped presents.

Easier not asked

I keep all gift bags and reuse them.

I find them much easier than wrapping and perfect for odd shaped gifts.

They're also easier for children's parties as less rubbish and easier to carry home for the parents.

People who use gift bags are definitely very next directory.

No. More like 'aaarrggghh shit we've got no wrapping paper. Quick, rummage under the stairs and get a gift bag from Xmas / birthday / Easter / '

@ShagMeRiggins and @AnnDaloozier

Have you been here a while? It's like MN used to be in the Good Old Days.

Now conjuring up images of someone performing fellatio while wearing Granny's old scarf.

OP, gift bags are given by people who also write 'should of', and 'lol'. Lol.

But then you have to hold the shitting bag in a bar or wherever and everyone CAN SEE

The bag? The present? Wrapping paper doesn’t just disappear.

Oooh we could have a 'performing fellatio while wrapping presents (bows, tissue paper, the works) competition. Prizes for finishing both at the same time.

I use and reuse gift bags, have used little net bags for bracelets or diddy presents and I use wrapping paper and sellotape!
I am clearly beyond the pale...

They are useful for a awkward to wrap present and reusable.

My daughter got lots of generic ones when she was hospitalised for most of a year. They were all carefully folded and sent on to a women’s refuge who fill them with toiletries/toothbrushes etc and hand them out to women who are escaping violence with nothing but the clothes they stand up in.

So naff or not, they can be useful.

I’m lost. I give both gift bags and head. I didn’t realise you had to choose one or the other.

‘Give head?’ - trying desperately hard yo be cool there aren’t you?
As for gift bags, I am happy to receive any kind of gift, regardless of how it is presented. I am just thrilled that someone has thought enough of me to give me a present.

I just give bread that I’ve baked in an earth oven, wrapped in leaves and with plaited grass to tie it together and a stone as a gift card, on which I write, with natural chalk a promise of giving head, which they can redeem at any time. The rest of you are just the most environmentally unfriendly people on this earth. wipes cum from chin and smugly walks off, bare footed off course

I always reuse gift bags. I never write on the tag

I like gift bags and always reuse mine. All decent people know you never fill the card in

I found very pretty cotton bags before the Christmas. They were gorgeous. A gift bag could cost anything from 1.50 to 4/5 euro and I found cotton bags (very pretty ones) and they were 8 euro. I used them as gift bags so they can be reused. A paper gift bag will only last for so long.