Posted: 12/20/2004 8:22:08 PM EDT
| What do you think? Can they really not wrap them, or do they just pretend to be bad at it so they don't have to? |
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Touchy subject here ..... It's just a PITA , especially odd shaped items . I can remember many a pre Christmas wrapping session where we would split up the presents . I'd wrap my half and she would wrap hers All was fine till my daughter was about 12 . That Christmas morning she was handing out presents and made the offhand comment while handing a present to her brother . "She said here , Mom wrapped this one" My Ex instantly wanted to know how she could tell , and my daughter replied Well , the paper is crooked , there is a ton of tape on it , and its wrinkled . Dad’s are always perfect . The kid was just being honest and didn't say it with malice , but her mother over reacted as usual and pretty much shot the hell outta the rest of the day  |
Hm, she may have a point. Gloftoe doesn't like to wrap presents, and he says he can't do it. In actuality he can wrap pretty well, but he takes about an hour for each one because everything has to be perfect. Me, I say the point of wrapping is to disguise the contents and it's gonna get torn up anyway.. why stress on it? |
About 6 years ago my mom was giving me a hard time about the wrapping job I'd done on her gift. Nothin' mean, just one of those "I thought I taught you better than that" sorta comments. The following year I gave her a claw hammer & a small crowbar, something she had no need or want for. I wrapped them carefully without a box so even a blind guy could tell it was a claw hammer & crowbar  Her last gift I "wrapped" in a nailed up wooden crate inside two other nailed up wooden crates, then with duct tape & filament box tape along with the Sunday funnies the crates were wrapped. By the time she was done "opening" her gift she was laughing so damn hard, tears were running down her cheeks. Oh, and her gift....a gift certificate for a jewelry store 
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My dad used to do most of the wrapping in the house until a couple of years ago he thought it would be funny to find all the receipts that were put in the garbage and wrap all the presents with them, newspaper, duct tape and masking tape. Needless to say, Mom and I do all the wrapping now (which I HATE!!)! 
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Yeah that drives me nuts. I put the present in the center of the square paper, pull the edges up and tie somthing around the ends. One minute, start to finish, done! |
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I don't think this is a ploy to get out of wrapping gifts but merely an extention of their 'personality'. If outside appearances are important to them - be it decorating their home or the way they dress, etc. - they will gift wrap neatly. Most of them don't care what the wrapping looks like - and neither do I. Off topic but the sweetest thing to get on Christmas morning is a gift wrapped by a small child. |
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My boyfriend had wrapped a few of his gifts to me while I was out last night. Now, he's never lived in a house with cats before. And he put lots of curly ribbons on the packages. They're very prettily wrapped and he obviously took great care in wrapping them, I was touched. And I had to laugh when one of my 3 cats immediately tore into the prettily curled ribbon. I told him it's that time of year when it's either in the litter box, or coming back up onto the rug, all that nice pretty curling ribbon.  |
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I can wrap when I have to, and do it well, but I HATE doing it. Besides, my familys cool about this in the "What do you want for christmas?" sort of way (everyone pretty much knows what they're getting, and half the time they get it early -ETA: that means no wrapping required). |
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I voted for the trap because of principle. But I can wrap with the best of them. I fact I am a better wrapper than Mrs. Wedge. I take great pride in this, because it is about the only thing that I can do better than her. eta - I only like to wrap presents in either Star Wars paper or Spider-Man paper. |
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 ....so true! I clean up at least one curling ribbon 'surprise' a day, thanks to our cat. As far as wrapping gifts...love it! I used to work as a wrapper at a department store when i was younger, so I picked up the knack. If you don't want to wrap 'em, send them my way! I'll do it!
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