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Post by shamrockpea on Aug 20, 2021 1:29:03 GMT
Wondering??
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Post by myshelly on Aug 20, 2021 1:31:21 GMT
According to Hallmark, 1987.
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Post by mnmloveli on Aug 20, 2021 1:35:34 GMT
Nothing like opening a wrapped present ! I rarely use gift bags.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Aug 20, 2021 1:46:16 GMT
Everything was gift wrap when I was a kid but I was sure that some of our wedding gifts came in gift bags when I got married 30+ years ago. I looked it up and sure enough, Google says that Hallmark introduced the first gift bags in 1987 so that would have been about right.
I never really used them much personally because I always liked wrapping gifts in paper. But after our kid came along, lots of people gave us gifts for her in gift bags and it didn’t make sense to throw them away if they were in good shape. They would get folded up and stored until we were totally overrun with them. At that point I started using the stockpile anytime our kid got invited to another kid’s birthday party. We still have a huge stack of them in a closet that I don’t think we will live long enough to use up.
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Post by grammanisi on Aug 20, 2021 1:46:48 GMT
I don't know when, but I love them!! I absolutely hate to wrap gifts. Hate it! I use mostly bags unless it's for the little ones.
ETA: my parents were both the queen and king of gift wrapping. I wish I had that gene!
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Post by leeny on Aug 20, 2021 1:47:49 GMT
My gift wrapping skills are awful, bags came to the rescue! Lots of tissue paper though  |
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Post by JustCallMeMommy on Aug 20, 2021 1:49:07 GMT
According to Hallmark, 1987. I was going to guess 1989ish - I remember them being novel in high school. |
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Post by greendragonlady on Aug 20, 2021 1:50:11 GMT
Nothing like opening a wrapped present ! I rarely use gift bags. I prefer giving and receiving a wrapped gift vs. gift bag. I will use a gift bag if I have something really oddly shaped and I have no box for it. |
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Post by PolarGreen12 on Aug 20, 2021 1:58:06 GMT
I totally love the convenience of them.
But one of my cockers steals the tissue paper and eats it so we have to do wrapped gifts under the tree. Otherwise Ollie poops colored tissue for weeks.
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Post by Zee on Aug 20, 2021 2:03:37 GMT
I'm pretty sure I first made it a thing by handing over a gift in a decorated paper grocery bag when I was a kid. My entire life, I've hated wrapping presents. What a waste of time, energy, and paper. Despise it.
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Post by peano on Aug 20, 2021 2:04:18 GMT
Well, personally for me, it started when we had to wrap a bazillion Christmas presents for DS on Christmas Eve at 3am--all toys in weirdly shaped packages. I never looked back.
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Post by bc2ca on Aug 20, 2021 2:06:03 GMT
I don't remember when they became a thing. I only wrap Christmas gifts for the immediate family. Every other gift, no matter what the event, goes in gift bags. My wrapping skills are limited and I'm not interested in making sure I have a variety of papers available. |
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Post by freecharlie on Aug 20, 2021 2:06:09 GMT
25 years ago?
I still like to open regular packages so I usually wrap, but if I am in a time crunch or it is an awkward package then I gift bag it
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Post by KikiPea on Aug 20, 2021 2:32:10 GMT
I use a lot of bags. I just hope the attended recipients are more excited and thankful for what’s inside the wrapped or bagged item(s) and not focusing on how I decided to present them at that moment.
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Post by pjaye on Aug 20, 2021 2:56:03 GMT
Nothing like opening a wrapped present ! I rarely use gift bags. I'm the exact opposite. Been using gift bags for at least 20 years. A good friend and I had one that went between us for about 5 years until it fell apart. Gift wrap is a rout, make you spend money on something that looks pretty for a few minutes and then gets thrown out by many people. Before gift bags were a thing I used things like newspaper, magazine pages, cute pillow cases and tea towels. I'm very anti-gift wrap...waste of paper, waste of money. |
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Post by ntsf on Aug 20, 2021 2:59:53 GMT
I was going to say the 1990's... my mother in law usually gave presents in a fabric bag.. that we returned for the next year. she is a quilter.. and many of her presents were home made clothes or other things. each kid got a quilt made for them in the last few years. the kids are in their 30's.
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Post by cycworker on Aug 20, 2021 3:11:52 GMT
I'd have said early 90's. For quite a while my more wrapping than bags; now I'd say it's 50/50. At Christmas, she still wraps my gifts, generally.
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Post by mnmloveli on Aug 20, 2021 3:12:13 GMT
Nothing like opening a wrapped present ! I rarely use gift bags. I'm the exact opposite. Been using gift bags for at least 20 years. A good friend and I had one that went between us for about 5 years until it fell apart. Gift wrap is a rout, make you spend money on something that looks pretty for a few minutes and then gets thrown out by many people. Before gift bags were a thing I used things like newspaper, magazine pages, cute pillow cases and tea towels. I'm very anti-gift wrap...waste of paper, waste of money. I very rarely use wrapping paper. I agree, a waste of money. Depending on gift and reason for giving, I’ve used towels, clothes, scarfs, you name it, I’ve used it. Most of the people I know throw the gift bags in the garbage unless they have an event coming up soon. They don’t want to be bothered with storing them. Different strokes for different folks. |
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Post by dewryce on Aug 20, 2021 4:57:42 GMT
I’m a gift wrapper, have always enjoyed it. (Paper, ribbons, homemade tags, little attached items, the works.) The doing, giving, receiving. I love how wrapped gifts look under my tree, and since I typically wrap early in the season they’re under there for quite a while. I consider them an extension of the tree decor, and yes, they almost always match. Used to change them out yearly based on my favorite paper from the Container Store. Now I just have different colors and themes around the house and the gifts under them match. We travel to both families for Christmas, and you can’t stack bags without wrinkling them, which cuts into their reuse. However, I do use bags for some awkwardly shaped gifts that I can’t find a box for, and when I just don’t have didn’t make the time. Or sometimes because I see a bag that is just perfect for a person and I have to have it. I reuse bags until they are too messed up, and then they go to my collection of shopping bags I use when I donate/return things to other people. eta: mnmloveli I also like putting things in containers other than paper bags. Organizational freak here so if I can find a nice basket/decorative box/something I know you’ll love and use I will do often that for birthdays and especially showers. |
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Aug 20, 2021 6:14:33 GMT
About 40 years ago. In my family we only wrap gifts for children. I've been winding or simply covering DH's gifts in re-usable tissue paper and putting them in gift bags for decades.
But my parents were part of the grow-your-own revolution and we're all about recycling/reducing/reusing wherever possible, and I think we were a bit ahead of our time.
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Post by magellen on Aug 20, 2021 10:12:08 GMT
My father’s aunt would give me presents in brown paper bags, way back in the dark ages.
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Post by smasonnc on Aug 20, 2021 11:37:09 GMT
I've been using them for many years. It just seems too wasteful to cover something in paper, then rip it off and throw it away. I save gift bags and re-use them and they don't take up that much room. They will end up in a landfill eventually, but not after one time. When we lived overseas, I bought 50 silk shoe bags that are gorgeous gift bags. We wrap Christmas gifts because everyone likes the tradition, but it just makes me sick to see that big trash bag full of paper after the gifts are open.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2021 12:15:20 GMT
I don't really give gifts anymore but if I have to it goes in a reusable shopping bag. I'm pretty much done with cards, wrapping paper and all the fiddly bits that people put on presents. It's just so wasteful and I'd much rather people gave thought to what gets sent to landfill than how they present something.
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Post by Basket1lady on Aug 20, 2021 12:36:27 GMT
I know we received some with our wedding gifts and we were married in 1990. When we lived in Seoul, there was a lady who had a shop over another shop in Namdaemun. We all called her the bag lady and she was legend at the American base. We would go in with 10,000 yuan (about $8) and come out with about 20 bags, depending on what size we were buying. I still have some of those bags!
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Post by shanniebananie on Aug 20, 2021 12:38:09 GMT
We still wrap gifts for Christmas, but gift bags for all other gift giving occasions. I remember when gift bags with tissue used to = "high class" and "expensive".
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Post by zztop11 on Aug 20, 2021 13:08:02 GMT
I remember spending time in the gift wrap line at the major department stores to get something gift wrapped. My mother always got the basic free wrap. Of course, I wanted her to spend the extra money on the fancy wrap. It was so beautiful.
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Post by pilcas on Aug 20, 2021 13:17:50 GMT
I hate, hate wrapping gifts so I love them!
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Post by phoenixcov on Aug 20, 2021 13:27:47 GMT
I used to earn pocket money wrapping presents and decorating them with tissue paper flowers in the 60s. My Mum made a big deal out of wrapping gifts and I got the gene. The only time I use a gift bag is for a bottle of booze My DS gets a bottle of mulled wine every year and the bag is given back to me to be re used. Brown paper with string and sealing wax is a favourite. I have also rescued my DGS art work from the bin and used that to wrap his presents.  |
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Post by amom23 on Aug 20, 2021 13:53:38 GMT
I use a lot of bags. I just hope the attended recipients are more excited and thankful for what’s inside the wrapped or bagged item(s) and not focusing on how I decided to present them at that moment.  |
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Post by workingclassdog on Aug 20, 2021 14:18:16 GMT
I am a big mix of both wrapped and bagged. I can't remember when bags came in style.. Hallmark style that is.. if I have the time I wrap and use pretty bows (I get the pretty ribbon right after Christmas on clearance) and then try to reuse them year after year. When time is crunched or odd shaped items, bags are great.
I enjoy wrapping when I have my little setup ready to go... I like making them all pretty. My sister is so complete opposite.. she wraps like a two year old. So funny how similar we are but polar opposites on other things.
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