Does anyone else have a wrapping paper "theme" for each person and then change their mind and re-wrap everything?

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Or is it Just Me?

I don't re-wrap unless I have cocked up. I do try and keep to the same paper for each person but not always successfully, this year:

mum has purple (yes sorry, the shiny stuff)
dad has gold
niece and dd have pink
dp has green flock
sister and her dp have a mixture
friends have silver with stars or red tissue paper (ribbons only for tissue paper presents this year)

all tags sticky one ones left over from last year. Oddly the colours match this years wrapping paper.

bucharest......cinnamon sticks.....oh my, i see a whole new world of nutterdom opening up before me....and boy am i EXCITED.....

Have put festive name hat on to share your excitement.
I remember getting mighty miffed when my star anises had bits missing one year.

Ooh, I love wrapping! But have never re-wrapped. That's a step too far...

One year I did the brown paper with garden twine, and fixed a holly leaf with recipient's name written on in gold pen. Twas a little prickly

This year I've got fairly sombre sophisticated paper - black with white swirly bits, grey, and white (oh and some sage green I think) and have bought beautiful contrasting fabric ribbons. And I use last year's cards to make gift tags, so they are all a bit personalised I suppose - can definitely recommend getting one of these for easy tag making/creative recycling of Christmas cards.

I have re-wrapped DH's

I decided his paper was not manly enough

It is now More Tasteful

oh dear I'm guilty of this. DC's get bright colourful paper for the presents from Santa. All presents under the tree are wrapped in co-ordinating colours that the tree is decorated in so they don't clash! I wouldn't re-wrap a present though.

The Father Christmas presents come in the Phoenix wrapping paper featuring a map of the North Pole. A pity it has been discontinued.

Anybody else tie a bow in ribbon that can be untied by pulling the ends (ie not knotted) and then have to tell every gift recipient 5 times not to cut the ribbon with scissors?

I ruined christmas day for myself once by not only doing this but using no sellotape on the paper so that it would all fall open pleasingly and still the philistines cut the ribbon and tore the paper.

Ok, after laughing myself silly at the OP I will admit that I have a yearly theme. This year it is gold and red or gold and green. This makes tag and ribbon shopping much more focused! I think next year it might be red and white............

I can happily and with great mental stability say that I have NEVER rewrapped a wrapped gift. Tis madness.....

I do have 3 different colours of wrap for 3 dc's stocking gifts. Makes life much easier for us and them - clever Father Christmas!

and DH thinks I am a control freak - ha ha ha ha

I struggle to tie my laces, let alone tie bows that can be undone by pulling the ends

How?!?!? Tis witchcraft! Lexi is a witch!

Surprisingly I have never re-wrapped after a theme change. But I have aborted the potato-print mission because it was too awful. Instead I have bought some red, sparkly Fimo and ds and I will roll it out, cut out hearts and tie them to the ribbons. It will still look a bit lame, but I've tried

Actually yes I do - one year it was all fabric wrap, last year did Christmas stamp on brown paper and this year really wanted to do mat white wrap with different coloured ribbon and bows for everyone but can't find white wrapping paper anywhere, its driving me crazy!! I do have other things to do and should move on, but not being able to get the look I'm after is really annoying

Early Learning Centre do rolls of white drawing paper that might work?

apparantly...

"Traditional wrapping paper that does not have a metallic or plastic-coated finish, or flashy hologram effects, can be recycled.

But sticky tape, bows, ribbon and cardboard cards must be removed first."

... but next year i shall steal the newspaper idea just to be on the safe side.

BUt ragged - does that not become even more of a minefield? What if you send something wrapped in the Mail to a Guardian reader?

Or something wrapped in the Guardian to a Telegraph reader?

Or something wrapped in the Express to anyone?

I think that, as CrankyTwanky suggested earlier, you have to buy a Hebrew newspaper especially

And what's wrong with decanting washing up liquid may I ask?

wrapped in the mail?!?!?!

one year I wrapped presents in newspaper/magazines as an eco friendly kind of thing and tried to find an article or picture that matched the person, but had a lot of time on my hands then. don't wrap the father christmas presents at all, set them up under the tree on christmas eve and the rest are wrapped.

Wrapping stocking presents?

we buy the cheap,and i mean cheap,wrapping paper! the only one we make an effort with is our 7yo girl.her name is holly,so she has holly themed paper every year!

What does one decant washing up liquid into?

We have separate paper for gifts for the children which at the moment are all from FC because one year a 2 yr old niece said 'oh look, FC has the same paper as Mummy'

But gifts for the adults are wrapped in whatever piece of paper fits around them. I save scraps of paper from the previous years in the hope that the following year there will be a tiny present that can be wrapped up in it.

[skinflint eco-friendly emoticon]

I believe washing up liquid is decanted into the sink.

HTH

This year's paper theme will be 'consider yourself lucky you aren't getting a pen from my office because I have had zero time to shop'.

I think MP didn't get enough time playing Pass the Parcel as a kid

This year it's brown paper with gold or pink stars as applied by me with the end of a carrot. For name tags it's just strips of the same brown paper held in place with miniature wooden clothes pegs. V cheap, easy, and reasonably stylish without being nutterish in the amount of time it takes to dream up or put together.

And yes, stocking presents have to be wrapped.

No themes here. Still using up rolls I bought years ago and the're all different and don't match.

But I do make tags from old cards, have ribbons that match the paper, and add fancy embellishments sometimes. I think that's fun. I like seeing all sorts of different papers under the tree