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Two words: gift bags. Open bag, insert gift.

No muss, no fuss. If you want to get real fancy, wad up some tissue paper and stuff it inside the bag too.
 
I'll hopeless too - I just tell everyone I wrapped it like that so its easy for the kids to open ... of course this excuse falls apart for the wife's gifts.
 
When I was in college, I once worked a Christmas season in the giftwrap department of Fields on State Street in Chicago. There is nothing I can't wrap, given enough time and paper. Got my Mom a lamp last year (an antique one), wrapped it without the box. Looked like a lamp made of wrapping paper. Wish I had a picture of it, but I was cameraless at the time.

Done the same thing with a birdbath, a bench, shoes, and probably other stuff too. Anything in a box-even a round one-is a piece of cake.

-Wm.
 
From a structural integrity and folding precision perspective the best package wrappers I’ve known have been men. (It’s just another form of mechanical fabrication to master.) /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/hammer.gif

From an aesthetic perspective the ladies have always held the upper hand.

As any gift-wrap aficionado will tell you, it’s the cardinal sin to tape the wrapping paper to the gift itself. To do so is a sign of weakness and an insult to the art of packaging. I’ve never seen a man do that. I’m not sure if I’ve met a woman who understood this fundamental principle (strange, huh?).


PC.
 
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... (It’s just another form of mechanical fabrication to master.) /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/hammer.gif

As any gift-wrap aficionado will tell you, it’s the cardinal sin to tape the wrapping paper to the gift itself. To do so is a sign of weakness and an insult to the art of packaging. I’ve never seen a man do that. I’m not sure if I’ve met a woman who understood this fundamental principle (strange, huh?).


PC.

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hmmm... mechanical fabrication you say... that's an interesting perspective. I can do a decent enough job at wrapping if I put my mind to it, but no two wrap jobs come out the same with my paws.

"Cardinal sin" to tape the wrapper to the gift!?!? Crikey! When did this happen?!?! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif The only time I've had someone give me flack over that was when a woman watched me wrap a gift once... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif
 
We’ll, I guess that proves that the wrapping gene isn’t gender specific. (That’s good to hear.)

The whole point to wrapping is to preserve and present the contents in their pristine, original state. When you tape to the object it becomes part of the wrapping. You physically and, more importantly, spiritually violated the object being wrapped. You have forsaken your sacred duty as a wrapper.


PC.
 
well... at least I have something new to strive for with this year's wrappings /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Mickey - you da man! hehehehe
 
Hey, all I did was find it on the internet!
 
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