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Is there the traditional Crap Wrappers United thread yet?

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Hassled · 21/12/2017 17:48

I've just been wrapping. I hate it, but I'm doing it before DH gets back from his travels because if he does it (beautifully - every corner perfectly creased) it'll be Easter before we open our presents and I need him to be doing other stuff. My efforts look like the work of a one-armed toddler and I bloody hate bastard sellotape.
Anyone else struggling?

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nocutsnobuttsnococonuts · 21/12/2017 18:23

Mine is terrible too! My words of advice - cellotape dispenser makes things much easier.

And stocking gifts in paper sweet bags. Saw on here and you can buy 100 for about £2. Saved me much time and stress :)

ScreamingValenta · 21/12/2017 18:26

Goodness, yes, I'm terrible at it. Haven't done mine yet but fortunately don't have too much to wrap. I got away with not embarrassing myself at the work Secret Santa by putting the presents unwrapped in a gift bag .

00100001 · 21/12/2017 18:27

I can be good at, I just can't be bothered.

Everyone likes a nicely wrapped up present, ribbons, bows and tags and shit.

But fuck that.

Mostly its, wrap, stick, sharpie

userabcname · 21/12/2017 18:31

Im terrible too. Did most of mine today and quite frankly it's embarrassing. DH told me not to bother wrapping his! 😂

werewolfhowls · 21/12/2017 18:35

Can I join, it's just so stressful. Other people have mulled wine and Xmas songs in the background. I however have sellotaped my fingers together and am chanting Where's the bastard scissors.

CambozolaDreams · 21/12/2017 18:40

Just wrapped about 30 presents to day and I needed a large drink to recover.

I’m crap. I hate it. It’s SO boring!

By the 25th present I am pretty much folding a scrap of paper around the gift and whacking twisted bits of sellotape down wherever they land.

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Hassled · 21/12/2017 18:58

Glad to see I'm not alone with my "sod it, that'll do" attitude to wrapping :o. It stresses the hell out of me. The only person I know worse than me is DS1, who wraps in a way that makes it look like he's just lobbed giftwrap at an object from a distance until there's enough of it to stick.

But then again if I'm given a gift the last thing I notice is the perfectly creased corners and the bows and shite - I just want to see what the contents are.

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00100001 · 21/12/2017 19:08

Gift bags and tissue paper are the way forward

Saladtongs · 21/12/2017 20:20

I had a stroke of genius last night when I was eating dinner with friends. I suddenly thought that large, particularly wide shaped items could be wrapped with disposable xmas paper tablecloths. Their table was dressed with festive penguin tablecloths.

I told my friends as I was eating, they all looked at me silently & then exclaimed that I was an effing genius! So there you have it, use disposable paper tablecloths to wrap large boxes and gifts.

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Hassled · 21/12/2017 21:19

Now that really is genius. That's gobsmackingly good. If only I'd read your post a couple of hours sooner, I wouldn't have felt the need for the Sauvignon quite so early this evening.

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NotEnoughCushions · 21/12/2017 21:45

Christmas Pudding bin liners are also good for odd-shaped items - just tie the neck.

MeadowHay · 21/12/2017 22:54

Lol, I guarantee you'd all feel much better about yourselves if you saw my attempts...I'm autistic which has given me poor fine motor skills so it's really a huge ballache. DH does almost all our wrapping, not because he's amazing, cos he's not, just average I guess, but because mine look like small children have attempted to wrap them and that is just seriously embarrassing .

Saladtongs · 21/12/2017 22:58

I love gift wrapping. I was a Saturday shop assistant at a gift shop in my youth. I was in heaven in the basement with the wrapping paper, bows and ribbons.

starfishmummy · 21/12/2017 23:03

Does anyone else get that moment when you realise that the paper you have carefully sellotaped on three sides doesn't actually meet on the fourth...

ifcatscouldtalk · 21/12/2017 23:04

Wrapped about 30 presents tonight. Next year it's all tissue paper and bags... Decided!

DameFanny · 21/12/2017 23:07

Hello my people. I'm goodish at presents, absolutely shit at wrapping.

But out of a 70s childhood involving many gift sets of Lily of the Valley talc I developed a hatred of wrapping that's more exciting than the contents. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

Pinching the table cloth idea for DH's turbo trainer though - genius!

Whitelisbon · 21/12/2017 23:26

Well I've just wrapped the last of the presents, and the scissors have gone AWOL. I've probably wrapped the fuckers, and one of the kids will be over the moon at the fact Santa brought huge big kitchen scissors in with their DVD.
I'll blame dh when we're in a&e Christmas day getting an ear sewn back on

I'm another member of the drunk toddler group though, a friend hands out lovely, wrapped, ribboned and just beautiful presents, and I hand over something that looks like it's been run over and sellotaped back together. I refuse to be embarrassed by it though, they all unwrap the same way except mine take longer due to the vast amount of sellotape

Fekko · 21/12/2017 23:32

I just say DS did the wrapping.

Shinygoldbauble · 21/12/2017 23:35

I wrapped a candle for my 9 year old dd's teacher and i did such an awful job I jokingly told her to tell the teacher she wrapped it. She was not impressed, her wrapping skills are already far superior to mine.

73kittycat73 · 21/12/2017 23:54

Having recently wrapped 50 + presents I can safely say not only am I crap at wrapping, but that I also really dislike it! It was never ending. The paper occasionally would rip along where I was cutting it, there were no crisp edges to be seen anywhere! lol
I have one more thing to wrap. That's waiting 'till Christmas Eve because of the size and space. How am I supposed to wrap a great big bloody unicorn teddy?!

abitoflight · 22/12/2017 00:02

I loathe it
Last year I lost my rag and actually cried. I had bloody shiny paper and sellotape kept slipping open it was a nightmare
I always told people that my DC had done wrapping to hide my utter crapness but they too old for that now
I’m using up what paper and stuff I have. I’ve told them all that there is no pretence of matchy matchy shit with bows, tags ribbon etc this year
I’m not buying more shite to go into landfill any more

Saladtongs · 22/12/2017 03:48

73kIttycat73 stick the giant teddy in a Christmas pudding bin bag from the £ shop as suggested by NotEnoughCushions

Or if the teddy comes in a box then wrap the box in a few disposable Christmas paper tablecloths.

Saladtongs · 22/12/2017 03:50

Where you've got ripped, frayed edges on the paper, fold it to give a neat, sharp edge so the sellotape sticks evenly.

SatsukiKusakabe · 22/12/2017 08:16

Mine has actually got a bit better with practise but I still ask dh to do tricky ones. It used to look like the monster out of the John Lewis as had done mine. When I try and get a sharp corner it invariably tears the paper and I can’t be bothered to start again. I’ve done my dd’s birthday wrapping and my dh’s just all the Christmas presents for the kids. By the time I do the stocking fillers I’m scrunching it round like tinfoil.

hashtagelfie · 22/12/2017 11:23

It's not that I'm bad at wrapping it's just with 4dc, they don't give a damn how pretty it is when they rip into their presents. Ribbons and bows are just an inconvenience and wastes precious time trying to get them off. So I don't care.
Family gifts are nicer, with the bows and ribbons etc, but after the mountain of dc presents that have been wrapped I just cba to make sure all edges perfect.
Every year I say I'm using gift bags the next but never quite do except last night (whilst having sellotape stuck to my fingers) I actually ordered the bags for next year. So no excuses

Only two boxes of gifts left to wrap now. Ho ho fucking ho

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