Poll! Wrapping Paper or Gift Bags for Christmas?

Mostly I use wrapping paper. We use gift bags for bottles of wine, as wrapping them is too hard.

I wrap, but no bows or ribbons as my cat loves to eat them and then that sucks in vet visit costs. If it gets too much, then it all just will get shoved in gift bags.

If it's a large or oddly shaped gift, that's why we have gift bags. If I can fit it in a box nicely, it's getting wrapped. But I do have some really nice gift boxes that I reuse every year and some big fabric 'Santa' sacks that we also reuse every year.

I've been seeing a bit of a trend in wrapping gifts in fabric or having sets of fabric bags for gifts and I may look into that...next Christmas. I have to survive through this one first.

Most gifts are wrapped--easier to place and stack under the tree. I usually use a gift bag for the gifts I get my sisters (same thing for each) because it's usually more than one thing and a bag is easier.

I wrap in paper, no ribbon or bows due to cats. I used to use a few gift bags, but one of our current cats is obsessed with getting in bags, so that's a no go now. As it is, they love chewing and pawing at the wrapping paper. I only have maybe 10 presents to wrap, so it isn't much trouble.

I wrap 99% of my gifts in paper. I have a huge stash of shoe boxes in every size imaginable that I continually reuse year after year to make the task easier for soft or oddly shaped gifts. I’m good at it too. I like the thick, double sided paper Costco sells because it’s so much easier to work with than the cheap, thin paper most places sell. I think a lot of people get frustrated by wrapping with paper because they are trying to wrap with low quality wrapping paper and that makes the task infinitely harder.

Having said that though, I think when my current stash of paper runs out I might switch to reusable cloth drawstring bags for a good percentage of our family gifts. I can buy the fabric when it goes on clearance for cheap and easily sew up the bags myself so the cost would be minimal. The problem is those Costco rolls of wrap are huge and take years for us to go through. Case in point, I used the same roll of Santa wrap for all of our Santa presents from the time my kid was born until last year and she’s 11 now, so yeah.

Mostly paper (even though I hate the task) with some bags for awkward shapes or ones I'm doing on someone else's behalf, like for my DD from my MIL. 

I love to wrap, so paper.

I use paper simply because that's what my kids enjoy opening, and that is the whole point of this merry, merry, merry insanity!😁

I HATE wrapping gifts. 

I admittedly am terrible at it.

I consider it an act of love that I bestow upon the kids.

99.9999999999999999% of the time I wrap with paper, use bows and minimal ribbon.

This year my 3 niece's gifts are in gift bags. It hurt my heart to do that. But there are 2 gift cards (in holders I made) and 1 small jewelry box I didn't want lost so it is in a bag. 

I also have 1 of my DD's gifts in a bag. She asked for the baby sea turtles from World Wildlife Fund and it comes with a free reusable tote, so they are in that, and I added decorations to the outside. I was struggling to wrap the 3 baby turtles in their eggs that are hatching with the gift bag in paper. I didn't have a box that worked.

Oh and I wrap because my two ASD sensory teens love the input unwrapping gifts and my DD loves to collect the gift bows for art projects.

This!

I enjoy wrapping with paper, it just makes a prettier package. For odd shaped or super small things I will use gift bags. There's usually a mixture under my tree.

I ❤️ ❤️ wrapping gifts and making and adding BIG pretty bows.  But there is only DH and me, so not many to wrap.  But, I also enjoyed unwrapping gifts, and DH does a good job of wrapping my presents. And sticking a bow on them.