How are you at gift wrapping?

I pretty much love everything about Christmas, so gift wrapping is just one of those parts. It’s best done with Christmas music playing, though. I’d like to have a house that has one of those wrapping stations, with the big cutting table and the racks for paper and bins for bows and stuff.

This clip from Louie is too close to home. This is exactly how xmas wrapping and prep goes for me.

I suck at it, even when I try hard.

Gift bags and tissue paper are my only hope at pretty packages…lol

I’m okay until it comes to the sticky tape part, how the hell do you keep the folded triangles of paper in place when you need both hands to get the bloody tape on there?
I’ve tried using my chin, my elbow & my feet, but still end up in a frustrated heap of failure, ripped paper, stuck together tape & “naked” present :(

I’m a wrapping wizard.

Spent ten years of Christmas seasons sitting outside Wal-Mart doing giftwrap fundraisers for my former church, and I’ve learned a few tricks. ^_^

I hate it.

But I have a story. Went to our local drug store once. They actually have some cool stuff there. I bought something, then asked this kid who worked there if they could wrap it for me. He hesitated, then bravely said, “Sure!”
He stepped behind the wrapping table…and froze. It hit me that he didn’t know how to wrap a present! Not “professionally” anyway. He was about my son’s age so the Mom jumped out of me so I joined him behind the table, and wrapped the present, telling him the few tips and tricks to perfect wrapping along the way.
He was grateful.

@Seek_Kolinahr Maybe you should do another video for we wrap-tards.

@ucme Pre cut a piece of tape and stick it on end of the finger you’ll use the least.

Pretty bad but I get the job done. @ucme tear a piece of tape and hold it in your mouth while you do the triangle. :-)

@ucme

here you go

Seriously, these hand-band tape dispensers are a lifesaver.

Thanks for the tips girls, that dispenser thingie looks just the ticket, even for cak handed buggers like me.
I’m picturing myself with tape in my gob aim primed at the present &...&...my phone rings!
“Bam babbing bebents, ball be baber obay” :P

@ucme I’m sure the phone call can come second to wrapping the wife’s christmas present. You don’t want to end up washing up in christmas day!

@Lorna This is true, wise words indeed :)

I lurve to wrap Christmas presents! It’s one of my favorite things to do on Christmas Eve – tuck away all those last minute surprises in their own special wrapper and make them look pretty.

And I’m with @Kardamom – I would love to have one of those special wrapping stations, where everything is set up just to wrap packages. Won’t work in this little teeny condo, though.

I swear, I do need to clean my glasses. I just looked under my list of New Activity and I saw this Q pop up again, only this time, I swear it said How are you at wife swapping?

^^ http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F1lJFlB-89Q

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha! ^^

Terrible, absolutely terrible. But I do know the Wrapper (not Rapper) Queen… @picante!!!

My gift wrapping skills could make Martha Stewart cry tears of joy.

I know how to wrap well, but I utterly hate doing it.

Great, I pay the Make a Wish people at the mall to do my gift wrapping. Win-win for everyone.

I wrap well, but pretty traditional looking is the result. When I see in magazines how they use different papers or bows or decorations on their presents, it’s always “why don’t I think of that?”

What usually happens with me is that I postpone and postpone and then the day I am seeing someone, I am rummaging around my house trying to find what I bought them and wrapping it all on my bed in a big hurry. In a perfect world, I would wrap presents with music playing and drinking eggnog, no rush, take all day. It’s never that way, though.

And the bed is the WORST place to wrap, but I do it too.

^^ Yes I’ve cut into at least two bed spreads because of that.

I’m good at it, and I love doing it. I rarely get to gift wrap lately though. Often I don’t wrap to be “greener” and we rarely give gifts that need wrapping.

Milo here; Since this went viral, we no longer wrap anything at my house. Flippy has a lot of explaining to do (unless he was drugged).

This is much closer to cat-wrapping reality.

I used to be good at it, but I haven’t wrapped in years, so I’m sure I’m rusty. I took pride in wrapping the unusually-shaped items back in the day.

@hearkat; MIlo again. ’..‘unusually-shaped items”...you mean like me?

@Milo: I haven’t ever attempted to wrap a living thing; and having known many cantankerous and/or skittish felines in my lifetime, I think it would be unwise to try wrapping a creature that is already a natural beauty.

I don’t look forward to it but I’m good at it. I love pretty bows and cute Christmas tags.

I am awesome at it! I wrap about 95% of all the gifts given throughout a year. The only presents under the Christmas tree not wrapped by me are the ones with my name on them.

I’ve performed an engine swap myself.

Giftwrapping?

I leave it to the professionals.