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I am hopelessly inept at wrapping Christmas presents. Year after year I make a total mess. So far, this year is as bad as previous years. I figured if I got an early start and just did a few at a time it'd go better. It hasn't.

Is this a "guy" thing? Most of the women I know do this pretty well. Creative incompetence?

Is it just me? Any magic methods that can be shared?
 
Yep, will share this. Have em done at the store.
 
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Yep, will share this. Have em done at the store.

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Amen to that. This man knows how to wrap gifts! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbsup.gif
 
actually wrapping gifts is pretty easy. Think of it as helping your woman put her bra on... oh, wait... I have problems with doing that too! I dunno how they do it!
 
I'm preaty good at unwraping things. Packages.........
 
This isn't rocket science guys... How to Wrap Gifts...

If you have the store to do it, you don't have to buy paper, tape, and ribbon etc., and they do it very quickly. But, then again, look at all of the fun you will miss out on. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/devilgrin.gif
 
Boxes from Moss,
Evil peanuts from VB,
Duct tape.
Merry Christmas Honey.....
 
My dad worked in a retail shoe store (but was quite the opposite of Al Bundy!) for several years in the early '50's. When a customer bought a pair of shoes, he would wrap the shoe box in brown kraft paper and tie it off with a string.

The Christmas presents that he wrapped were true works of art.

Unfortunately, this talent was not passed along in the gene pool.
 
Guy's,

All ya need is about fifty square yards of wrapping paper and three rolls of scotch tape. If that fails go to industrial strength duct tape and with enough duct tape you can fix (I mean wrap)anything! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/jester.gif I am truly fortunate that my better half works for a company that sells wrapping paper and gift cards and she takes care of all that nonsense.
 
It's something that will work just fine if you approach it systematically. Like an engine re-assembly, you take one aspect of the job at a time and do it as neatly as you know how. Main difference is that you don't need any oil when gift-wrapping. I have found that I only make a fist of it if I try to rush it.
 
S'funny - swmbo can't wrap anything, not even cubes neatly. She gets me to do it...
 
I asked the Mrs for help, she told it was the same principle as making a bed. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif
 
I use a brown paper bag and crunch up the top and put a ribbon around the neck. Walla everything wrapped in 5 minutes. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thirsty.gif
 
I wrap 1 gift each year...while Shannon was a kid it was my gift to her...now that Will's here to take her place, it'll be my gift to him...I always use the Sunday comics for my paper!
 
Can you really get a B in a sunday paper?
 
/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/lol.gif When the time comes, I'll just save a lot of Sunday comics! hehehehe
 
Well ya know, was thinking of grandson.
 
I really cannot do this, as many times as I've tryed it always ended up looking like a big ball of scotch tape.
 
Yep...Sunday comics here too.

Also, plain brown paper with red ribbon looks nice.

Although, these days it's *real* easy for me, since the gift cards generally come with their own envelope. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif
 
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