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

306 replies

AnnDaloozier · 30/12/2019 14:51

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)

OP posts:
Witcher · 30/12/2019 16:40

I love getting gifts in gift bags... before I've opened the gift I'm already thinking great... that will do for so and so... no wrapping and also reduced waste!

Piggywaspushed · 30/12/2019 16:40

Ah. Now I know why my Secret Santa recipient curled her lip at my gift of a beautiful hard back wonderfully illustrated book. It was in a gift bag! What a horrific faux pas! Xmas Blush Xmas Sad

Piggywaspushed · 30/12/2019 16:41

That said, am guessing Secret Santa is also very non - U.

Witcher · 30/12/2019 16:42

My local news out this up
on their site before xmas

www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailypost.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/rules-recycling-christmas-cards-wrapping-17414483.amp

YoureAllABunchOfBastards · 30/12/2019 16:45

I have a large collection of gift bags tucked away in the dining room ready to give back to my mother, who will use them again next year.

I have been wrapping in brown paper for years and now every other fucker has jumped on the bandwagon. I use ribbon and then collect it to reuse as well. Why not?

Leflic · 30/12/2019 16:45

draughtycatflap !aughed out loud at that!

woooooo · 30/12/2019 16:45

Who knew gift bag snobbery was a thing?

I think the OP is pulling our leg.

They obviously have never experienced the rush of adrenaline when you look inside your huge gift bag which is full of lots of different sized gift bags to see if you've got one which is just the right size for the present you've just bought.

spurlingpipe · 30/12/2019 16:47

Wrapping paper often isn't recyclable and even when it is, recycling uses a lot of resources and has a large carbon footprint.

Reusing is much better than recycling when it comes to the environment.

In any case getting so wound up about such a small matter is rather unseemly Wink

piratehooker · 30/12/2019 16:49

They're great for my lovely Auntie and Dad, both with limited dexterity and still wanting to have the ability to 'wrap' (hide from plain view in a gift bag) their gifts to the family without causing pain or cramps from all the faffing that comes with wrapping odd-shaped things.

Myself, I'm not quite there yet... my use of them is for reasons of pure laze!

ScreamingValalalalahLalalalah · 30/12/2019 16:50

They obviously have never experienced the rush of adrenaline when you look inside your huge gift bag which is full of lots of different sized gift bags to see if you've got one which is just the right size for the present you've just bought.

Yes! Just the right size and doesn't say 'Happy Birthday' when it's for a wedding - can't beat that 'aaah' feeling.

Booksandwine80 · 30/12/2019 16:51

Your OP doesn’t even make sense. I would rather write a coherent message on a gift bag than write some incomprehensible rubbish on a lovingly wrapped gift HmmHTH

sayingno · 30/12/2019 16:52

I like to wrap, but I believe gift bags are more environmentally friendly: every single one I got it got reused, and I'm pretty sure others do that too!

Sagradafamiliar · 30/12/2019 16:52

Your OP reads like a random selection of words and phrases. Whatever floats your boat though. You don't like gift bags, thanks for the insight.

TheLittleBrownFox · 30/12/2019 16:52

I bought a LOAD of gift bags reduced in Sainsburys yesterday and about 10 rolls of wrapping paper for 25p each Xmas GrinXmas GrinXmas Grin

I hate wrapping presents - every year I swear I'm going to do gift bags the following year and every year I don't Xmas Blush so next year I will. It's easier and far less wasteful bevause they get reused so much.

And I'll store the wrapping paper for donkey's years until I run out of recycled gift bags Blush

Seriously.

TheLittleBrownFox · 30/12/2019 16:54

Oops, meant to add that I am of course much better at blow jobs than the OP.

ScreamingValalalalahLalalalah · 30/12/2019 16:55

Your OP doesn’t even make sense.

I think it's meant to be a snapshot of a typical gift bag user. It doesn't fit in my case - I'm not even on Facebook, I don't have any interest in memes and I buy my cards from independent shops, not Clintons.

Not going to comment on the other assumptions! Xmas Grin Xmas Blush

OverByYer · 30/12/2019 16:55

I prefer gift bags, much better for the environment, I always re use as do most people I know.
Why the need for a tag?
You give someone a present they know it’s from you. If not you can merely say’ over asked me to give you this’
I have more important things to care about though really

ScreamingValalalalahLalalalah · 30/12/2019 16:59

Why the need for a tag?

If needed, you can easily make your own tag by cutting up an old birthday or Christmas card.

BlackAmericanoNoSugar · 30/12/2019 17:01

I did mostly fabric wrapping this year. What does that say about me? That I have an unusually strong gag reflex? That my pleasures are not just guilty but boarderline immoral?

(What it mostly says about me is that I'm a quilter who seriously over purchases fabric.)

MistyCloud · 30/12/2019 17:02

@AnnDaloozier

Agree with the majority, I think they're fab, as they can be used again and again. Smile

BikeRunSki · 30/12/2019 17:03

I thought they were for awkward shaped presents that were difficult to wrap.

We rotate the same gift bags over and over! DM got her Christmas present in a bag we got a present for DS in when he was born - he’s 11!

Somanysocks · 30/12/2019 17:06

Well I've not had any complaints Grin

Topseyt · 30/12/2019 17:10

What rubbish. Gift bags are much better for the environment than single use wrapping paper. They are REUSABLE! Wrapping paper generally isn't, and much of it isn't recyclable either.

I like gift bags and have the intention to build up a supply for various occasions and reuse.

I am very, very naff.

Echobelly · 30/12/2019 17:11

I keep nicer ones I'm given to reuse when I have those last minute haven't-wrapped-the-present/no-sellotape/really awkward shaped pressie momements!

Sparklesocks · 30/12/2019 17:12

Yes that’s true @Topseyt a lot of wrapping paper isn’t recyclable - I only learnt this year that they can’t recycle the ‘foil’ style paper or anything with glitter on - will bear that in mind going forwards when I’m buying it.