[Poll] Wrap It or Bag It?Follow

Ok, you are doing this wrong.

Walmart bags and newspaper are not the things to use for present wrapping.

They are gifts, not bulk comestibles.

I'm pretty sure that any gay worth his sling will go with wrapping paper.

When I was little, for months, I saved my favorite cartoons from the newspaper, yes the real paper one... ROFL. Upon the holiday, I wrapped all our gifts in the cartoons. Made for great conversation.

I usually bag it unless it's fairly small/easy to wrap...or really if we are just out of bags. I'm waaaay too lazy to try and wrap something correctly, it probably looks better bagged than wrapped. Plus it doesn't leave as much of a mess and can be used multiple times!

It depends on the gift for me. If it's smallish, I'll bag it with lots of tissue so you still have to do some digging.

But I'm fairly known for the wedding gifts and baby shower/baptism gifts. Those I tend to buy a medium-size wooden box that latches and I'll fill the box with all the goodies amidst tissue paper. That way the wooden box can be used later to hold the wedding/baby memorabilia.

I wrap stuff, myself. I used to be much better at it than I am now (I worked in a gift shop for a bit, got sickeningly good at it). This year I went to the extreme of wrapping them, and placing them in either a stocking or a box. I wrapped the box as well. It led to much laughter, as was intended.

And on the topic of wrapping stuff in an annoying fashion...

My mother was the queen of this. One year, she got my sister a pendant in a small box... which she wrapped, placed in another box, wrapped it, and placed it in another box.. until she had a box about the side of a crock-pot/toaster oven...

I payed her back one year. I found a tape (yes, olde story is olde) that she really wanted, so I wrapped it... then circled it with strapping tape, then duct tape, then packing tape, then another layer of strapping tape and more wrapping paper.

She still talks about it to this day. With pride, I might add.

Oh, for those unfamiliar with strapping tape, think duct tape with very stretchy plastic bands/fibers in it.

Yes, it must be so.