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)

FFS @Janaih I can't believe you managed to get the gimp suit unzipped again. Back to the cellar with you. No more mumsnetting!

Oh I love a gift bag. Sometimes I wrap and use a gift bag.
I don't use the tag usually and if I have one that has been written in then I remove it and use another or just out a card inside the bag...

People who write on giftbag labels deserve a regifted Bayliss and Harding bathbomb set for their birthday and Christmas until they learn the error of their ways.

Since you can buy entirely sustainable paper gift bags YABU. Far less detrimental to the environment than disposable nappies, panty liners, tampons, condoms etc.

What's wrong with the word naff?

It’s the first year that I’ve wrapped no Christmas presents at all; just reused my gift bags, with recycled gift tags, made from last year’s cards. I used the time saved to read and drink tea.
I iron shirts meticulously, and use a sleeve board.

To be fair @busybarbara, I would only wrap a gift in.a condom.in.an emergency, ideally a coloured/flavoured one to be festive. Preferably not reused😱

Every gift I am ever given in a gift bag has a blank card.

I have always felt there is an unwritten behaviour that gft bags are reused. I carefully pack mine and reuse, and I always assumed others did the same.
Much better for the environment.

The naff ones are naff. The nice ones aren't. Any time I get a gift in a bag, I keep the bag and reuse it. One bag went backwards and forwards between me and a friend about five times. Much easier to reuse than wrapping paper.

I love a gift bag especially the gift wine bottle bags

Surely bags are better for the environment than wrapping . And you can easily take off the original gift tag. No point in throwing a bag away for the sake of a gift tag. For a surprise element I hole punch the bag and thread ribbon through to the hide the inside

@SylvanianFrenemies I imagine the OP would make all sorts of assumptions about you if she received a gift stuffed in a ribbed and flavoured XL durex

OP auditioning for Classics, methinks. I would like to state my objection to its inclusion if anyone suggests it.

I know @NobJobWinker! What a snob. I have it on good authority that most of the royals use rubbers for their droll little Christmas gifts anyway, though there were ructions when Eugenie used mouse-shaped ones that she bought in a pub toilet in Clapham. Kate only uses lambskin, and Meghan gets hers from a Cambodian co-operative that supports women to exit the sex trade.

I second the objection for an inclusion to classics 😑

I don't know, only people who buy giftbags at The Card Factory, and who use anal beads, would even mention Classics.

OP auditioning for Classics, methinks. I would like to state my objection to its inclusion if anyone suggests it

I object too. I cringed when I read the OP - trying way too hard to be funny and the giving head thing is just weird.

Don't have get some weirdos on here.

MrsTerryPratchett

OP auditioning for Classics, methinks. I would like to state my objection to its inclusion if anyone suggests it.

It's all a bit contrived, certainly.

I must admit, I thought the OP was getting themselves around a bit lot of Dutch courage before heading off to Open Mic night at the Gag and Heckle to try out their new only material.

Hope they're grateful to the MNetters who provided them with far funnier stuff than, "Gift bags, eh? Naff or what?".

Is this thread supposed to be funny?

Ooh I bloody love a gift bag me. I use one for almost every present I give. They're ALL reused, I don't think I've ever bought one on my life. I wish I could say it's because I'm environmentally conscious but I'm just poor.

The Party has not yet issued any instructions on the matter @dirtyrottenscoundrel

Among family and closer friends we don't write on the card. We just put the Christmas or Birthday (or other) card inside which has our names on so they know who it is from.

Round here everyone reuses gift bags.

I avoid ones with glittery and shiny paper.

I have never bought a gift bag- and yet I have many! I reuse them all, I have gift boxes that are over 15 yrs old. When I use a bag, I may put a small sheet of wrapping paper above the gift, so you can't see in the bag. The iLs selotape the bags shut which makes reusing far harder!

Has this thing kicked off yet?

Oh..

My favourite bits of this thread are 'my current husband', 'blow job queen' and 'soft underbelly of my cat'.