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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)

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TooManyPaws · 30/12/2019 17:22

I love gift bags as they are reusable. I use tissue paper without sellotape to cover the present inside from any peeping and that can be reused too. Do I get extra MN points for keeping them in a vintage wooden tool box under my antique bureau? (Though that's mainly to keep the dogs/mice out.)

I use Facebook to discuss esoteric or occult topics with friends overseas and am not sure if we even have such a thing as Clinton Cards locally. I much prefer to buy mine blank from museum and gallery shops.

What is live laugh love?

I am simply superb at oral sex.

Is all that non-naff (that the word naff is extremely naff) enough?

ProfessionalBoss · 30/12/2019 17:23

So a disabled person who lacks the manual dexterity to physically wrap a gift and uses a gift bag, designed to hold gifts is a bit naff and destroying the environment?

Give your head a wobble @AnnDaloozier and do the world a favour and lay off the daytime drinking too... You're not a happy, fun drunk... Hmm

TooManyPaws · 30/12/2019 17:23

Oh, and I haven't been in Next for years. Is the Directory still going in this age of Internet shopping?

Ummusomebody · 30/12/2019 17:27

Love gift bags and only ever iron if absolutely necessary hence, I choose my outfits carefully. I also don't mind reusing gift bags. The best was when I went to see a friend and gifted her something in a gift bag. She turned around to say she got me a gift as well but hadn't packed it. Took my gift out, put hers in and have me back. Perfect. Recently reused it again

Bigearringsbigsmile · 30/12/2019 17:28

Really. Who gives a giant, shiny shit?

Ollypollydolly · 30/12/2019 17:32

Everyone I’ve seen with gift bags also wraps individual presents. Nothing wrong with a gift bag- you can get some really lovely ones but you’ve already decided you’re better than everyone else so who cares

reginafelangee · 30/12/2019 17:36

What's wrong with being lazy?

Okbutno · 30/12/2019 17:40

Thanks for making me lol.

Gift bags are very next directory Grin

Seasiderabbit · 30/12/2019 17:41

Yep. I can't stand them. I get them out of the house as fast as possible before my OH starts hoarding them. They didn't used to be a thing. I would never buy one.

Booksandwine80 · 30/12/2019 17:46

@Seasiderabbit

In the nicest possible way, you need to get a life Xmas Wink

CornedBeef451 · 30/12/2019 17:53

I reuse gift bags for years if possible, and for the second year running have used cloth and Japanese gift wrapping techniques for Christmas presents. Hashtag feeling smug.

No decal though.

Yetanotherwinter · 30/12/2019 17:53

@Camomila us too. Don’t see what the issue is. Weird thread.

DrinkFeckArseGirls · 30/12/2019 17:58

Bags more environment friendly than wrapping paper. Bag will certainly be reused but wrapping paper not always as might a) not be recyclable, b) is too crinkled/ too much tape used.

CornedBeef451 · 30/12/2019 18:00

The cloth wrapping is actually ridiculously easy, much easier than the paper and sellotape faff.

I bought a load of scarves from charity shops over the year and they get used over and over again.

I don't use them for kids party presents though, that might be going a bit too far.

SylvanianFrenemies · 30/12/2019 18:02

I love gift bags.

Sometimes I hide in one, naked but for a large bow made of recycled fabrics, before springing out and giving my DH a blow job.

I sometimes livestream the whole escapade on Facebook, so you are part right.

Sagradafamiliar · 30/12/2019 18:05
Grin
Janaih · 30/12/2019 18:11

A present contained within a gift bag is a double joy.

SoleBizzz · 30/12/2019 18:16

Is the device you are using to type on Mumsnet recyclable? How about your plastic TV,sofa, chairs, rug? You barabarian!!

SuntanC · 30/12/2019 18:21

Guess who wants to receive the dubious (non-bagged) gift of getting their thread into the Fail? Hmm

whataballbag · 30/12/2019 18:21

YABVU

I love a gift bag. And I can suck a golf ball through a hosepipe.

Maybe if I spend less time fellating and more time wrapping I wouldn't have to gift bag. What a life changing epiphany.

SylvanianFrenemies · 30/12/2019 18:24

That's what my DH says @Janaih

LaurieMarlow · 30/12/2019 18:29

Gift bags are great. They can be reused into infinity (you NEVER write on the tag). I certainly don’t wrap as well. No I don’t iron either.

Why the fuck do all these people want me to make work for myself? Confused

Millie2013 · 30/12/2019 18:30

We’ve got gift bags that have been recycled around the family for years (and years)
I’ve kept new baby gift bags from when DD was born (she’s now 6) and I reuse them for new baby gifts. Ditto birthday ones that DD receives
OH has the same Father’s Day gift bag recycled every year (as did my DDad, before he died)
I can’t remember the last time I bought a new one

Janaih · 30/12/2019 18:32

@SylvanianFrenemies I am your husband. Hello.

Alsohuman · 30/12/2019 18:46

I love this thread, it should go into Classics.

Our family gift bags have been doing the rounds for years. If you write on the tag, you never receive another present. I don’t iron and I’m told my blow jobs are second to none.