How much would you pay someone to wrap your presents.... Realistically ?

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A work colleague of mine is starting up a present wrapping service . Great !! I hate wrapping presents.

First she said she'd charge me £35.00 for the wrapping of 50 presents . Price obviously dependent on if she drops off and collects and if she uses her own materials .

I said I'd drop off pick up and use my own wrapping paper but I'd have nowhere near 50 presents more like 20-25 . She's quoted me £20.00 .
So roughly a pound a pressie . Is this steep ?? Would you pay this ??

No - but I don't mind wrapping my own presents.

I think it is reasonable, she is obviously doing it as a proper job not just doing you a favour.

Wrapping presents is one of my favourite things. I would never pay anyone to do it.

I'd happily pay £1 a present. I hate doing it, and I'm crap at it. Sounds like a bargain

If it's dead posh wrapping with ribbons and bows and all that like this then yes.

Otherwise, no. I can do sellotape and wonky edges myself

Nuffink. I love wrapping presents. It brings out my best OCD/ ASD side... neat edges, colour coordination, sellotape measured to same lengths, ribbon perfect lengths... aces.

I don't think £1.00 per present is a lot. I wonder how long it would take her to wrap 20 presents? I spend aaaaaages on each one.

I would pay a pound a present

I don't think you could make much money out of this unless you were wrapping thousands of presents. That type of thing is sometimes done for charity at a shop or other centre. That's quite a good idea I think. £20 for 35 presents sounds quite reasonable I think.

Sounds ok to me. I quite enjoy doing them myself though. How do you know who they are for when they are wrapped? Does she do the tags too?

No - don't like wrapping but would find the pick up and drop off as much faff as actually doing it myself and I would be out of pocket.

Generally I pay in sexual favours
(DH's parcel wrapping is way tidier than mine.)

I don't see how it can be done per present. If it was a ride-on car, then that should cost more than a pair of earrings.

I suppose it would balance out skippy....a present could also be the size of a matchbox.

sounds an okay price, but wont you still have to do all the labelling so they get re-labelled to the correct person so in that time you coulda wrapped em yourself?

No, I wouldn't pay. If you do a few presents at a time, as you buy them, then I don't find it too much hassle.

At work we do it for £1.50 but that's posho paper plus cloth ribbon and tag.

I would pay £1 a present if they looked beautiful, neat, fancy ribbon etc.I actually don't mind wrapping presents but I'm not the best present wrapper-er!

For the amount she is charging you, is she providing all the paper/ribbon etc?

No I'm providing all paper etc . She wants more if she is supplying it .

In regards to labelling I was just going to give her a labelled bag, pressies inside and then put back in the bag once wrapped . I suppose she can write on the tags too of she's got nice writing. Gotta get my money's worth

Nothing.

Wrapping is my favourit thing in the world! Cordinated wrappings, tags ribbon etc. I love the look of nicely wrapped presents.

Had a row with DP last year as he said he would wrap the presents!

I love wrapping presents!

"No I'm providing all paper etc . She wants more if she is supplying it"

fuck that I thought it included beatutiful paper/ribbons etc!

too much if you have to go buy wrapping paper, doesn't that defeat the point of giving someone else the job?

I wouldn't pay for it at all, but I'm quite happy with a big pile of wonkily wrapped presents that we've done ourselves, don't go for artistic wrapping here.