Would you pay for Xmas wrapping?

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So my son has a footie tournament we’ve to raise money for. And I don’t really do much that’s able to raise money- can’t bake and don’t have a work place that you can ask for bonus ball/sponsor type money…
So I was thinking of offering a Xmas wrapping service… for friends or friends of friends (not randoms)

A. Someone delivers me a box of presents and their roll wrap and I return them all wrapped up for a fee.

B. I come to their house and wrap in situ… for a fee. They supply the wrap.

is this something you can imagine people paying for? If so- what kind of price roughly?

Or I did think of those sweet sleighs/sweet cones for stockings as I could go to Costco for sweets… but aware Xmas is busy enough…

Do you know what? Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Well done for your thinking.

I’ve just had a little look and $4-5 per item could be a nice little earner.

$4-5 per item, blimey!

I think all the demand would be on Christmas Eve.
What about a stocking filler service? Bulk buy small gifts and toys and offer an age related bundle with a mark up? There are quite a few people doing this though and requires an outlay.

Isn’t the whole point that your son is supposed to raise this money? Why should you do all the work?

Re people paying someone to wrap their gifts, it depends on what your friendship circle looks like. If they are the type who has someone come in and do their Christmas decorations for them every year and and they buy lots of presents with the addition that you are exceptionally good at wrapping presents then maybe. It wouldn’t work in my circle of friends as we buy very few, if any, presents. You couldn’t charge anything like what pp suggested though, maybe more like £1.

I would only be interested if you supplied the wrapping paper. If I’ve bothered to get it myself I may as well just wrap the things in front of the tv. The hassle is the shopping.

I agree that £1 an item is reasonable, but you might end up with people sending you footballs and other awkwardly shaped things and wrapping their own books and boxed items.

Christmas is expensive enough I wouldn’t pay someone to wrap gifts up for me! How much are you trying to raise?

No I wouldn’t want someone else to wrap presents. Too much hassle, would need to put notes on each one to say who they are for, and trust you to get it right!

However, have seen charity tables set up in shopping centre at Xmas time offering a wrapping service for a donation. Then you are not having to drop off/pick up friends and family gifts. It’s just random shoppers. You could possibly try to get a slot to do this along with other parents?

A bag packing slot at a supermarket might be more lucrative though.

I wrap for my mum every year because she hates it so much and I love it 😂 she always says she’d pay me £50 to do the lot - obviously I never take the money but people would pay for it.
I guess it’s a matter of asking. I go round to hers, she sits on the sofa and tops my drink up and tells me who each thing is for. She buys all the paper although I do take some of my own cos it’s nicer 🫣😂

You could charge £10 per bundle I would say, but you should use your own wrapping paper, and do it with ribbons

Maybe gift boxes, too

You would have to be a fabulous wrapper with amazing calligraphy on tags, not just a normal person. I wouldn’t pay for someone to wrap gifts at the same standard I could do myself. Also how will you know who each items is for if you’re just delivered a box of gifts?

Thanks all- the team and my son are going to also be raising money. This is me trying to avoid the bonus ball type things that other people take to their work and people pay £5 to win £50 type things… hubby is a massage therapist so he’s going to do massages for a donation and I was trying to think of a similar skill but as I’m a nurse I didn’t think anyone would fancy a leg dressing or injections for a donation! 🤕
I was thinking nowhere near a £1 a present. More like £5-10 for a box full…but I appreciate that it might be better to just offer to friends and local friends of friends for a donation… or get my son out car washing!!!
Anyone fancy a bonus ball? 😆

I wouldn't, not even for charity because I generally enjoy present wrapping and don't have many presents. I'm also reasonably good at it. I like the mish mash of presents under the tree rather than tidy looking boxes.

Try some of the handless opposite sex though.

@AgnesX yeah, there is something quite nice about them mis- matching

I would not be interested in buying this as a commercial service.

But I'd play along as it's a fundraiser (and would relieve me of a chore).

I'd prefer someone to come to me, rather than cart pressies around the place, and the person (which really should be your DS under your supervision) must be prepared to use up all the odd bits of paper I've kept for reuse before cracking open a new roll. And make sure they stick the labels (or post-its saying what's inside if I've not got round to writing them yet!) on each item as it's wrapped so I know what's what afterwards.

I'd be prepared to donate at least £20 (maybe more) because I am seeing this as supporting the community, not a transaction

I wouldn’t pay for this for all sorts of reasons. But maybe some people would.

Price wise I’d want to know what to expect- if you are doing really beautiful wrapping with ribbons and other decorations (think Rowan Atkinson in Love Actually) then your prices are reasonable. If it’s literally just putting the presents in paper (supplied by customer) then maybe 50p an item?

I would, but only if you're really good at it.

I don't know who'd pay enough that it would be worth your time. Let's say it takes you two hours to wrap the presents, there's the cost of the wrapping plus your fuel if you are driving there and travel time. You'd need to charge quote a lot to make it worth the effort. It could be worth asking though as some people might be keen

I might be interested if you were reusing old paper - friend makes beautiful parcels from old maps - and natural fibres such as raffia. I would see value in that.
But not interested in anything that increases waste.

I came to the conclusion last Christmas that wrapping is so wasteful and environmentally unfriendly that I would ban it. Everyone used reusable bags instead, and it worked really well, all the bags are in the cupboard now ready for Christmas this year. So no, I would not pay for a wrapping service.

I'd have loved this when my kids were younger. I HATE wrapping gifts. Some years I'd probably wrap over 100 🫣

No because I love to wrap! And certainly not pay £4-5/item - more like an hourly wage. I'd be more inclined to drop stuff around to you and I'd expect you to have a variety of paper and ribbons - that's part of the hassle. And you better be better than me at doing it!

Absolutely, I would pay for this. On the run-up to Christmas, it can get absolutely crazy and we have lots of birthdays and Christmases around the same parts.

No, I love wrapping!

a charity used to do it in our local shopping centre long tables set up and you’d drop off your shopping and then go back! I used it but it was kind of because it was there and I hate wrapping but probably wouldn’t bother if I had to drop it off somewhere