How do you wrap your gifts? Bows? Ribbons?

[Mrshaych]

So after watching christmas films all weekend on Netflix I noticed on almost all of them their gifts are wrapped all perfect and matching.. Obviously I know this isn't real life but got me thinking how others do theirs? I wrap cheap gift sets, sweets, all matching paper with bows and ribbons to look pretty under my tree.. Other than that it's any paper and a tag usually for my sons 🙈 am I doing it wrong 🤔🙈

Pinterest is your best friend for inspirational wrapping, I have gone for little wooden laser cut trees (super cheap on Etsy) as the less plastic option for a bow this year

Stuff from Santa is haphazardly wrapped in gaudy paper.

Other stuff is done in various papers but within a theme. Use bells / wooden tags / candy canes etc and ribbon and tape. I love wrapping. I tend to go for traditional red and white themed papers.

I do mine perfect and matching. But I don’t buy many gifts so it’s not a huge job.

I do it differently each year according to my mood or the general style I’ve gone for with the wrapping.

String
Wide ribbon
Narrow ribbon
Raffia
Washi tape

Plus little accents like wooden snowflakes, tiny jingle bells, beads or baubles, and coordinating tags.

I’m using up the rest of the wrapping stash I’ve got and then I’ll be switching to fabrics for wrapping, which will be kept and re-used year on year.

Recyclable brown paper and string. I absolutely do not do tags, I find them messy. I write the person’s initials in an unobtrusive spot on the bottom of the parcel.

Brown paper and string

We wrap in fabric. Not exactly furoshiki - don't earn enough to splash out on genuine Japanes cloths - we just use scarves, thin throws and well, just chunks of fabric. And we use them year after year. Zero waste. Zero expense.

Using up rolls of Christmas wrap I found in my parents spare room and which they forgot they had bought. I wrap for them now anyway. Must have been ten years worth! Still masses in there. 🙄

I dont bother with bows etc.

Sometimes reuse a gift bag.

As I buy the paper it tends to coordinate, but not match. I wouldn't wrap most in green and white then suddenly have a pink one, for example.
I use a mix or bows and ribbons. Small gifts don't get either though.
Kids still insist no presents under tree til christmas morning though so doesn't make much difference.

I buy Christmas bags from QVC. All different sizes and really tough so totally suitable for reusing. Wrapping takes 2 seconds.

I pick up wrapping paper in January for pennies and then take my time finding perfect ribbons to coordinate.
I haven’t bothered with new paper for the last couple of years as I’m trying to use up my stash, and I did brown paper a couple of years too before it was the trendy thing - with twine, cinnamon, bits of greenery. It’s one of my favourite bits of Christmas to obsess over wrapping schemes.
I think it started for me as a teen when I couldn’t afford to buy great gifts but I could make the wrapping look fabulous.
For a birthday recently I used plain paper and huge thick satin ribbons and they looked stunning. It’s a tiny effort for the effect.

With paper and sellotape. I have the artistic skills of a fruit fly.
I can however, wrap neatly.

I started abandoning ribbons and bows as they are not recyclable and you hardly reuse them.

Father Christmas has its own paper and the rest is wrapped in whatever non glitter/metallic paper I find in the shops.

This year I will try to find fabric ribbons without any metal or glitter on it.

DD uses tissue paper and gift bags for her friends. They are reused all the time, I am sure several made it back to us and out again.

I wrap mine with ordinary Christmas paper, misplaced sellotape and a lot of frustration and bad temper.

I usually stick to a colour theme - this time silver and white with white bows and tags on the silver parcels and vice versa. The stocking presents for the children usually are in Father Christmas paper so it's distinct from the rest but we've been rumbled since last year, so not necessary to wrap them differently!

Brown paper with a mix of satin and velvet ribbons in claret, forest green and navy this year.

I LOVE wrapping. This years' theme is sustainable.

Recyclable brown paper, dried orange slices (in oven now actually), cinnamon sticks and tags made from salt dough with stamped initials.

Best part of Christmas.

I enjoy wrapping but I don't go too fancy, ribbons and bows under the tree attract the attention of the cat so they're reserved for presents that go inside sacks or under other people's trees. I tend to buy wrapping paper in the sales and try to only buy enough for one year (and some that will double as birthday paper at a pinch, so it all goes together in as much as it doesn't clash but there's no theme.

Santa's elves wrap stocking presents in cheap non shiny paper and never includes bows or ribbons, they're too busy.

I’m a horrible wrapper, but I do find those stick-on bows useful for jazzing up poorly-wrapped gifts!

I tend to color-code gifts so it’s easier to remember what belongs to whom. So, everyone gets a certain paper. I do write labels as well.

Paper only. Although I do use tape which isn't recyclable I will never use bows and all the other plastic rubbish that ends up in landfill or the sea. We have no planet B 🌏

Last of the wrapping paper will be used up this year, fabric or brown paper and string after that.

Gifts given at home in drawstring bags I made out of Christmas fabric (that had sat on my shelf for years) plus reused Amazon gift bags. Gifts out go in reused gift bags or brow paper stamped by the kids.
My MIL keeps us in gift bags to reuse I just flatten them each year & store for the next

In the past I've always loved choosing and buying different wrapping paper for children and adults. For each group I'd buy three different contrasting but coordinating papers and matching bows, ribbons and tags - sometimes this would even be divided further by gender too! I'd also then buy gift bags for each person - even if I was only giving them one wrapped gift and could physically hand it to them.

Last year I realised just how wasteful it all was so I bought no new paper and just used up what I had from previous years. I separated the gifts into groups of who I would see together and just used big reusable Christmas themed shopping bags to carry the gifts around in bulk.

This year, I have bought new paper but in only two styles - one for my son and one for everyone else regardless of age or gender. The paper I chose is 100% recycled though not recyclable - good but not perfect. I'm not using bows, ribbons or tags and if I've bought someone multiple gifts I've wrapped them together as one parcel - apart from for my husband and son. Instead of tags I've just wrote directly onto the name of the recipient directly on to the paper.

If I had presents sitting under the tree or out in view for weeks I would potentially find a more glam (and sustainable) way to wrap but as the presents are all kept in a cupboard till they are given to the recipients and are opened within seconds, so there's no point.

I use nice Christmassy paper - shall be using up what’s left from last year, and any more will be recyclable, but not brown paper, thanks.

I buy reels of proper satin ribbon from the John Lewis haberdashery dept.

Whatever ribbon stays in this house will re-used - I do have to iron it, but that takes no time at all. Much of it often comes back the following year, from family further away.
I don’t use those shiny bows or rosette things - I just don’t like them.

I've always been a terrible wrapper!
This year (with much time on my hands), I've looked at a few tutorials on YouTube.
I wouldn't say I'd use many of the ideas but about 10% was interesting!
The best thing was learning that if you cut the paper too short, you can wrap the gift diagonally and it will fit!