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Post by LisaDV on Dec 6, 2017 14:27:53 GMT
I was a gift bag girl until dh. DH insisted on wrapped present. So I wrap after the kids are put to bed and watch my Christmas movies that they couldn’t watch. This year ds15 is joining me for Die Hard, so I told him he has to help wrap his sister’s presents. I’m looking forward to it.
I like matching wrapping paper too. The last 2 years was a hodge podge to get rid of leftovers. I also used less coordinating leftovers on extended family gifts that we traveled to — that way it wasn’t messing up the look under my tree Christmas morning.
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Post by rrp23 on Dec 6, 2017 14:39:13 GMT
I like it. If im not rushed for time, i like to wrap and make it more personalized. I also love the look of pretty packages underthe tree.
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Post by fredfreddy44 on Dec 6, 2017 15:27:30 GMT
I really don't like it. I can only do 6 or 7 at a time before I go crazy. I wrap 50-80 presents each year so if I take it day by day. I started last night. My grown and gone dd's room is the wrapping room so I can keep everything out.
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Post by kkooch on Dec 6, 2017 15:34:55 GMT
I use to love wrapping presents when the kids were little. We had a camper years ago and we would hide the presents in the bathroom out there (just in case they went in the camper they wouldn't go in the bathroom seeing you couldn't use it). So when I was ready to wrap my husband would fire up the heater in it, put some christmas music on the radio and wrap away. Nice and quiet, no interruptions. All done in one night.
Years later I didn't like it so much. It was bad enough I had to buy all the presents I had to wrap them too! Now there aren't so many presents to wrap so it isn't a big deal. I love putting the small things in miscellaneous boxes so they have no clue what it is. Gift cards were always tapped onto a can of soda etc.
Nothing beats the year I put homemade chocolate pops on all the packages and apparently we had a mouse we didn't know we had. It LOVED chocolate! I guess it wanted a present too!
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Post by leannec on Dec 6, 2017 16:00:47 GMT
I don't love it so I decided to do everything in gift bags with tissue sticking out of them ... waaaaay faster than wrapping with paper This has made my life so much easier ... especially since I reuse my gift bags every year and no one notices
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Post by ~Susan~ on Dec 6, 2017 16:02:45 GMT
Once I get everything out and ready to go I really like it, but I greatly dislike getting stuff out and putting it away.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2017 4:07:08 GMT
Awesome hacks!!!!
Diagonal wrap?!?!? Where have you been all my life?!?!?!?
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Post by candleangie on Dec 7, 2017 6:58:11 GMT
I enjoy it, definitely. Even more so since last year. I have myself permission to donate any paper I’m not excited about and buy fresh each year. It’s such a small expense for how happy it makes me... 😊
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Post by anniebygaslight on Dec 7, 2017 7:06:55 GMT
I hate it.
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Post by ghislaine on Dec 10, 2017 3:18:46 GMT
I enjoy it. Instead of snowflakes I lean toward plaid papers. I like to make a band of paper from a coordinating scrap and put the bow and tag on that. I sprung for the set of plaid papers from My Mind's Eye's Black Friday Sale because I couldn't resist it. Usually I go looking for paper at the Hallmark store the day after Christmas and buy however many rolls I used up that year. It's nice and thick and the back has a grid on it that I find really helpful. I think I'm going to have to skip that tradition for a few years though!
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Post by betty on Dec 10, 2017 4:41:37 GMT
You know how in the movie "Mommy Dearest" Joan Crawford screams about 'no wire hangers"?...Well, my kids and husband do a mock version of that about me with "No stick-on bows!". I don't buy them, rarely save one and my kids beg for them. "Why can't we be normal and use stick-on bows?" I like pretty gifts, neatly done with coordinating tags & ribbons. I tie real bows or attach pretty adornments. No stick-on bows! lol
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Post by workingclassdog on Dec 10, 2017 4:58:33 GMT
I start out loving it, but by the time I am doing the last few, I am hating it.. usually by then I am grabbing for the gift bags. I would say 90% of mine are wrapped and the rest gift bags.
I do love a good matching look but I am not paying an arm and leg to make that happen, so it happens about every 3 or 4th year since I have to use up what I have. I have four new matching rolls next to me, but I won't open them until I use up the old, BUT then it is going to spoil my next year's plan to match because then I have already broke into the next stash.
I do use decent paper (found that out the hard way) and I like the ones that have the graph on the back so I am not all crooked. AND I do hate the REALLY heavy paper, cause it is hard to fold.
I do buy pretty ribbon from Michael's (or whatever craft store) when it goes on clearance for 90% off (you know the fancy kind on the rolls that start at 2.99 and go up to 19.99). I love all my ribbons!!! I just started doing that in the last five years.
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Post by 50offscrapper on Dec 10, 2017 5:18:17 GMT
I hate it! This year I decided to wrap standing up and it went well. I also bought really pretty wrapping paper at Hobby Lobby. I got it 50% off and I really like. It's kraft brown paper with some cool Christmas designs on it.
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Post by birukitty on Dec 10, 2017 13:48:40 GMT
I love it, it's like art to me and I feel like I'm making the gift I'm wrapping special for the giftee in this way. This is me too. Like another Pea said heavy gift wrapping paper is key to an easier job wrapping. I really prefer the paper at Hallmark and tend to buy mine closer to Christmas (nothing like last minute shopping) when they have sales like buy one roll, get one free. They have wonderful quality thick paper with grid marks on the back which really help a perfectionist like me get cutting down quickly. I'm very picky about the pattern (sometimes I really hate being a perfectionist-I get it from my father) but they always have just the right paper. Last year they had a paper with a pattern of a musical notes on a musical paper (you know with the lines?) While that doesn't really sound Christmasy I saw it in the window with a red satin bow around it (the box that was wrapped with it) and it looked gorgeous. The paper was black and white. My sister and father both play classical piano so I used that for their presents and they loved it. I also always look for rolls of fabric ribbon to tie around my packages. You can reuse them and it makes them look special. The other pattern I used was leftover from the year before but no one noticed. It was a rich, medieval looking pattern of gold, reds and greens and I paired it with a fabric ribbon in green. Wonder what I'll find this year? Still have to go shopping for it.
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Post by sawwhet on Dec 10, 2017 15:36:42 GMT
I've bought and made reusable cloth bags for my family. If the present is too big, it will be wrapped like the computer chair I bought dh this year. Otherwise, everything is in reusable bags. i just pack them up and put them away for the year This is not my photo but I'm using similar style bags with ribbons. Attachments:
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Post by crazy4scraps on Dec 10, 2017 16:48:17 GMT
I don't love it so I decided to do everything in gift bags with tissue sticking out of them ... waaaaay faster than wrapping with paper This has made my life so much easier ... especially since I reuse my gift bags every year and no one notices My SIL is no good at wrapping gifts with paper and fully embraced gift bags a long time ago. About five years ago or so, someone at her church made a whole bunch of reusable fabric gift bags with drawstring closures at the top in various sizes from small to quite large and donated them to the church fundraiser. SIL bought them all and now that’s all they use for their family gifts. A few years ago she gave DD a gift in one of her bags and she made a point to say, “The bag it’s in isn’t part of the gift, I want that back.” LOL!
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Post by refugeepea on Dec 10, 2017 16:52:49 GMT
I've never loved wrapping presents. My kids don't care about opening them either. It is gift bags or all presents in one container and they take everything out at once. I only buy for three friends, my kids, and mom. I plan on NOT wrapping one gift this year.
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Post by leannec on Dec 10, 2017 17:03:33 GMT
A few years ago she gave DD a gift in one of her bags and she made a point to say, “The bag it’s in isn’t part of the gift, I want that back.” LOL! Bwhahahahaha!!!! Good for her ... I'd want them back too
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Post by maryland on Dec 10, 2017 17:25:15 GMT
Hate it! My mom always does really fancy wrappings, so I must have gotten the wrapping gene from my dad! When I was a kid, I made my little brother wrap for me. I do sloppy wrapping jobs. I am too impatient!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2017 18:54:16 GMT
I don't mind it if I have everything that I need. I also coordinate my paper and NO STICK ON BOWS! They always end of falling off or getting squished, so I use ribbon instead. Fabric ribbon is the best.
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Post by grammanisi on Dec 10, 2017 22:25:52 GMT
I absolutely, positively, hate it! HATE IT! I have been buying gift bags since late summer and most of my gifts are going in those. I am going to wrap our 2yo great grandson's gifts, though.
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