Listening to DH wrapping my presents and I think he’s got me a live lobster

[WhenisitmyturntobePM]

It’s the only explanation. So far I’ve heard:

What the bugger….?
Breathe, just breathe…
1….. 2….. 3….. 4
Right I’m not wrapping it. I’m just not.
Arrrrrggggghhhhh

And the best…. ‘Fuckinora!’

I’ve offered to help but it didn’t go down well.

For context, we usually get each other about 3 presents and he’s been wrapping for an hour.

Haha. My DHs approach is to throw money at the situation and bribe DD2 to wrap his gifts for him. Luckily for him she likes wrapping presents and does it for nothing.

Best thread title of the year!

I’ve just made him a tea and told him it doesn’t matter if they aren’t wrapped. I definitely know he’s tried!

No bandages yet!

Great idea! Unfortunately our dog doesn’t have opposable thumbs.

Placemarking to have my curiosity satisfied tomorrow.

Placemarking with , which your DH clearly needs.

Maybe the opposable thumbs are just getting in the way?

Your DH just needs 🦀

More excited for this than my own presents

Honestly I think he needs a week in a spa! 🧖‍♂️

Place marking. I too need to know! 🦞

Similar swearing when I wrapped DH's stocking presents. Ever tried to wrap a sieve? (He broke ours recently and uses it all the time when cooking. He swears every time he goes to use it and realises we forgot to buy a new one. I grabbed one in a last minute dash to the shops for other stuff. Disclaimer: He also has lots of other proper pressies and he will find it funny as an extra gift)

You can take it for walks on a ribbon! Channel your inner Salvador Dali 🦞

A lobster

It can't be true but I so want it to be.

Sounds more like an angry octopus to me 🐙

Same here! I think my DH has bought me a snake on speed with the amount of swearing that he was doing earlier and he doesn’t swear a lot either….

sweet, i wish him luck. i hope he's as proud as a toddler pooping on the toilet after all his hard work.

A snake on speed 🤣🤣🤣 I’m dying 🤭

This would actually break me out in a sweat too. Maybe everything should just be manufactured in a square shape.

What you need is a wrapping paper bag:

designertrapped.com/how-to-make-a-gift-bag-from-wrapping-paper/

Pretty and justifies extra gorgeous wrapping paper as they are reusable.

Heavily cropped picture below as an example.

I had to wrap a boomerang tonight and that produced some swears.

Maybe it's a boomerang?

I just wrapped the barbie dream house whilst DH took DD and when he saw the state of me he blanched.

well a fancy sieve or not, it would easily fit in one of my christmas bags...
just saying we're a mostly paper free house ;).

This is inspired! I might do him a solid and pre-make him some of these next year.