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wrx-ian 20 December 2006 06:32 PM

Wrapping xmas presents!!
 
is everyone else as rubbish as me at this??
Is only females who can make a decent job of it??
What ever I do it always looks like crap. Have to find boxes to put things in just so everything is square so i stand half a chance. Either get too much paper or not enough. Then things end up with more tape then paper.
All this effort for it to be ripped off and chucked away.

Abdabz 20 December 2006 06:40 PM

My missus has done loads of wrapping this xmas and not one chart success :confused: Then there's Eminem he's a very gifted wrapper. I will ask him to come from Crenshaw (or wherever) and wrap for us next year.

*Sonic* 20 December 2006 06:42 PM

Talking of wrapping pressies, is it just me, or does anyone else colour co-ordinate their wrapping ie mum gets one type of paper, dad gets another, kids get their own paper etc etc

Or do I have some Xmas OCD tendencies ?

sti-04!! 20 December 2006 06:44 PM


Originally Posted by *Sonic*
Talking of wrapping pressies, is it just me, or does anyone else colour co-ordinate their wrapping ie mum gets one type of paper, dad gets another, kids get their own paper etc etc

Or do I have some Xmas OCD tendencies ?

OCD :D

I pay the extra in the shops or get my step daughter to wrap them for me. :D

JPL 20 December 2006 06:48 PM


Originally Posted by wrx-ian
is everyone else as rubbish as me at this??
Is only females who can make a decent job of it??
What ever I do it always looks like crap. Have to find boxes to put things in just so everything is square so i stand half a chance. Either get too much paper or not enough. Then things end up with more tape then paper.
All this effort for it to be ripped off and chucked away.

W H Smith do wrapping paper with a cutting grid on the reverse. Makes it so much easier. :thumb:

wrx-ian 20 December 2006 06:51 PM


Originally Posted by JPL
W H Smith do wrapping paper with a cutting grid on the reverse. Makes it so much easier. :thumb:


Now that would have made things easier.

To be honest don`t think drinking beer whist doing it has helped much

Alas 20 December 2006 06:51 PM

I was getting the wifes present wrapped in the shops today. Very attractive young lady who was doing the wrapping and making the usual inane small talk.

Then she dropped the bow thing and bent over to pick it up. Jeez - I nearly bought something else in the hope she would do it again:D

*Sonic* 20 December 2006 06:51 PM


Originally Posted by JPL
W H Smith do wrapping paper with a cutting grid on the reverse. Makes it so much easier. :thumb:

I tried that once, but all presents got wrapped inside out :cuckoo:

Bug Eyed Peas 20 December 2006 06:52 PM

:lol: :lol: Then she dropped the bow thing and bent over to pick it up. Jeez - I nearly bought something else in the hope she would do it again
:nono: Boy

Jonno_johnson 20 December 2006 06:53 PM

Im not clever at it.

sarasquares 20 December 2006 06:55 PM

its easy, just buy square presents for everyone :thumb:

Bug Eyed Peas 20 December 2006 07:02 PM

I`ve got mine to do yet :brickwall :brickwall
Now square prezzies, thats an idea. :wonder:

sarasquares 20 December 2006 07:04 PM


Originally Posted by Bug Eyed Peas
I`ve got mine to do yet :brickwall :brickwall
Now square prezzies, thats an idea. :wonder:

sarasquarespresents :thumb:

w00t 20 December 2006 07:20 PM

The secret is to do it as bad as possible then they don't ask you to do it again lol! I scrunch the paper around the present then wrap loads of cellotape around the outside! :D

JPL 20 December 2006 07:28 PM

And don't forget to nick one of those proper selotape dispensers from work :thumb:

hoskib 20 December 2006 07:43 PM

try wrappng a hammer:nono: didn't help i was about 10 at the time!

but nope, still can't wrap properly:( maybe putting everything in boxes is the key:idea:

wrx-ian 20 December 2006 07:55 PM


Originally Posted by JPL
And don't forget to nick one of those proper selotape dispensers from work :thumb:

Only tape we have at work is packing tape.
Can`t see that would go with tinsel and reindeers!!!

sarasquares 20 December 2006 09:26 PM


Originally Posted by hoskib
try wrappng a hammer:nono: didn't help i was about 10 at the time!

but nope, still can't wrap properly:( maybe putting everything in boxes is the key:idea:

post 11 :D

hoskib 21 December 2006 06:32 AM


Originally Posted by sarasquares
post 11 :D

couldn't see, got you on ignore.

CrisPDuk 21 December 2006 06:47 AM

MrsD wraps all the presents I buy, except her own, The stepdaughter wraps them for me:thumb:

It's called conditioning:D
If you deliberately do a job badly enough, often enough, a woman can't help but take it off you:D


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