I always thought stories of dh's wrapping skills were exagerated

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Until today. There is a story from when he was 13 and bought his dad some shoes. He wrapped them seperately. Since then his mum did all his wrapping until we got together. I love wrapping and for the last 15y I have wrapped, he writes the labels. I assume his mum used to wrap my presents.

He has just wrapped my presents. Both square boxes. And they are awful. It looks like he has just bunched the paper up, and covered them in sellotape.

Still, at least he tried!

ha ha that made me laugh. ive always done dp's wrapping too - i don't think i have received a birthday or xmas present from him that wasn't either wrapped in the carrier bag in which it came, or stuck in a gift bag - so im assuming my dp's wrapping is just as bad. maybe its a man thing

I did consider getting a gift bag but thought "he's a grown man, how bad can it be" answer, very!

Dh pays our dd to wrap my presents so they are wrapped considerably nicer nowadays I wrap everything else (will be finishing it off later)

My DB once wrapped our presents with duct tape...

My dad wraps beautifully though. Better than my mum

Oh, I know I'm lucky. But I'm just shocked. I'm going to have to teach him!

I had a friend who was definitely a man.... he used a ruler and exactly cut lengths of sellotape. He folded at exact angles and would re-wrap from the beginning if he wasn't happy with the end results. So crappy wrapping isn't a man thing.

Introduce him to the joy which is gift bags!

My dad wraps beautifully and taught me to do it quickly, efficiently & beautifully when I was a kid so that I could help out at Christmas in his shop.
My mum however is awful and usually resorts to a plastic bag or a blanket . DH goes down the gift bag route.

My DH wraps more neatly than me, too

Its clearly a dh thing. We have been xmas shopping today and he has got the last of my presents.

I have bought him a selection of giftbags.

My own DH is much better at wrapping than me so i always give him the tricky ones and keep the square boxes for myself.

My mum is shockingingly bad at wrapping presents.

my dh cant wrap presents either

ive tried teaching him... but its just wasted time

It works out ok most of the time. I love wrapping and we have a good system. But christ knows how I'm going to get into that parcel!

Dp is a disaster too. Even squared boxes look like and accident in a gift wrap shop. Too much paper, too much sellotape, all bunched up with bows splattered on to hide the worst tears in the paper.

And he's always bizarrely proud of the send result

dh is very good at wrapping presents.
I can only do square boxes without a frustrated tantrum

DH can wrap presents as well as me. He just doesn't bother. He's promised me that he'll paint the entire hallway between now and new year if I do all the wrapping. This seems like a fairly good deal to me (as I have no intention of standing at the top of a ladder precariously positioned on the stairs).

I'm getting better, but am definitely a novice compared to Dh, he's an amazing gift wrapper. Has done all ours for dc and family this year too, the star!

This might be AIBU, but I told DH he can't wrap my presents from him in any of the wrapping paper we have in the house as I want exciting wrapping paper I haven't been using for the past week.
He said I am definitely BU!

my DH is too precious.

it takes him 3 hours to wrap something.

DH tends to not wrap my present at xmas...i usually get it in a carrier bag...still with the receipt

I made him wrap my prezzie last year and then realised why he never bothers

i have shown him the wonders of gift bags and fancy packaging this year

I don't mind wrapping my own pressies, I draw the line at writing my own labels though

DH is fine with wrapping, the end results are more than passable but he doesn't think it looks very good plus he finds it boring.

Which is why I have spent the last 2.5 days gift wrapping, including the 30 individual hamper items for MIL.

DH is very good at tidy wrapping. He doesn't believe in things like ribbons or labels though, so we set up a production line. He does perfectly tidy wrapped packages (much neater than me) and I add a label and some ribbon. The first Christmas we were together I realised how he organised presents: he made very discrete marks as to who it was to, none as to who it was from.