ajm

Is anyone here any good at wrapping presents?

I consider myself to be pretty good with my hands when it comes to DIY, making things and suchlike, but the standard of my present wrapping is, quite frankly, embarrassing!

Everything looks good after the first pass of the paper around the first axis, secured with a strip of cellotape. Edges are nice and square, length is trimmed to perfection, but then comes the tricky fold into two triangles at the ends. Despite the paper being perfectly in tolerance my triangles somehow become uneven, and I'm left with a flap of paper, then the cellotape folds over ontop of itself during application leaving the whole thing looking like a dog's dinner!

What is the secret? (apart from employing a menial to do it for me of course! )

Or am I just a present-spastic?

rossyboy

iTrader: (8)

know what you mean mate, best leave it to the women

Buckrogers

sorry mate, but you are a window licker....

BOB.T

It's a girl thing...when they go off at school and have 'that' lesson, that's when they learn how to wrap stuff

Richard Askew

I got the MD's daughter to wrap all 3 of the presents I've bought this year

Buckrogers

Here you go Joey...
http://www.indoindians.com/tips/howto_wrap.htm
Amazing, that thing called goooooooogle

Alas

Mine always look as if I'd wrapped them on horseback
Alas

andrewdelvard

Last yeear 2 of mine had unfolded themselves under the tree by xmas day morning
I've used sticky tape this year...

Iwan

I find that not giving a flying **** whether it's wrapped neatly or not helps.

GM

Rule No 1 has to be: Only buy things that are easy to wrap. Like boxes. I mean, have you ever tried to wrap a teddy bear?

dpb

get them wrapped int shop tight-fist...........

Fuzz 2

Order off the net and tick the box "gift wrapping"

Most of mine turned up wrapped and with hand written tag on it.

EASY

Andy

But I can do a good job of wrapping normal oblong or square items...
It's the odd shaped **** that catches me out.

hades

Place in carrier bag that came free of charge with purchase. Fold the top of bag down. Seal over with "seasonal" tape or tie with ribbon. Works even better if you shop somewhere with seasonal carrier bags (e.g. Asda).

Posh option - as above, but remove receipt from bag first.

I can wrap, but the above is much less effort!

MJW

Basically if you pee standing up, you can't wrap Xmas gifts.

TurboKitty

Very often, near Christmas, various charities set up wrapping services at shopping centres and the like. You donate a modest sum, which goes to a good cause, and you get your presents beautifully wrapped.

Not that I need such a service because, being a girl, I am a dab hand at it!

FASTER MIKE!!

what i do is i go to the pub at dinner time come home at 6 for some tea wrap the presents pi$$ed then go back out again. anyone who complains about the poorly wraped presents you just tell them thats the best job i can do pi$$ed worked for the last 12 years

mike

tiggers

I don't know ajm, you're an enigma man. You can build an all singing all dancing fish tank from the ground up and it's perfect, but when it comes to wrapping a few presents or hanging curtains you're lost - I don't get it?

tiggers.

ajm

Actually curtains are no longer a problem, they are now part of my repertoire. Present wrapping still eludes me however..... I can't be good at EVERYTHING I suppose....

tiggers

I guess not and the good thing is other people can wrap presents, but not many can build fish tanks

Would wish you a Merry Christmas, but I know we are of like mind on the Christmas thing so Bah Humbug

tiggers.

SJ_Skyline

Just make sure you tape the corners of the wrapping paper well

Bottomfeeder

Mine always look as if I wrapped them drunk, or with my eyes closed........