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Skybird · 12-23-18, 09:21 AM

The secret is to bring the box into shape before wrapping it. That's what hammers got invented for.

u crank · 12-23-18, 09:25 AM

Gift bags. Only way to go.

ikalugin · 12-23-18, 10:04 AM

Can't you buy a box and place the gift (in it's own packaging) into it?

Commander Wallace · 12-23-18, 10:36 AM

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Originally Posted by ikalugin

Can't you buy a box and place the gift (in it's own packaging) into it?

That's too easy. Where is the fun in that ?

What do you normally do ?

ikalugin · 12-23-18, 10:38 AM

I do not believe in the concept of regular gifts and by my (low) individual social status I am not obliged to give them to my peers and superiors yet.

Red October1984 · 12-23-18, 10:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Skybird

The secret is to bring the box into shape before wrapping it. That's what hammers got invented for.

I like this solution best.

A few years ago I got made fun of for my wrapping skills so I just started putting presents in various sizes of brown paper bag. It started as a joke, but now I've completely forgotten how to wrap a gift properly and I'm doomed to use brown paper bags.

Aktungbby · 12-23-18, 11:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Red October1984

I like this solution best.

A few years ago I got made fun of for my wrapping skills so I just started putting presents in various sizes of brown paper bag. It started as a joke, but now I've completely forgotten how to wrap a gift properly and I'm doomed to use brown paper bags.

THAT'LL JUST BE PRACTICE FOR THE FUTURE!

August · 12-23-18, 12:16 PM

Bah Humbug!
All you really need are some stick on bows and some sense of timing.

You wait until the kids have gone to bed then bring out the presents from your hiding place. You stick bows on them and put them under the tree. Christmas present deployment complete and now it's Miller Time! We wrap presents so they look pretty in that short period of time between putting them out and the kids waking up. Hours of work for a couple of pictures and an "aww" or three before it is destroyed in the morning.

You have to realize that to a child the wrapping paper is just an impediment to getting to the present. A last often frustrating obstacle to overcome before playtime can begin. There isn't a kid ever born who would be mad that their new bicycle or Suzy Home Maker Oven or whatever else they had wanted from Santa, wasn't wrapped up in paper and scotch tape, and I daresay that there are few parents, at least the ones who are detailed with post Christmas cleanup chores, that would prefer the addition of piles of shredded paper to the job.

Platapus · 12-23-18, 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by ikalugin

Can't you buy a box and place the gift (in it's own packaging) into it?

I would be lying if I said that I never considered putting all of each kid's presents in to one box and hen just wrapping that one box.

But Kids like opening up the gifts. and after all, its about the kids.

ikalugin · 12-23-18, 01:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Platapus

I would be lying if I said that I never considered putting all of each kid's presents in to one box and hen just wrapping that one box.

But Kids like opening up the gifts. and after all, its about the kids.

Buy the proper number of boxes then

em2nought · 12-23-18, 08:08 PM

Is it already that time again? Had me worried for a minute, what did you guys start so early for? Tomorrow is the "man" day to start Christmas shopping. LOL Must be a bunch of snowflakes. LOL

Platapus · 12-24-18, 04:07 PM

I like to get it done earlier to avoid the crowds. This year I was running late

Aktungbby · 12-23-18, 10:38 AM

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Gift bags. Only way to go.

INDEED! NICE ONES FROM PAPYRUS CARD SHOPS DO THE JOB AND ARE REUASBLE BY THE RECIPIENT IN TURN. JUST GAVE MY BOAT CAPTAIN/NEIGHBOR HIS YEARLY RATION OF TANQUERY GIN IN ONE! THE MAN, IN HIS SEVENTIES, LOVES HIS MARTINIS.

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Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,717 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	The secret is to bring the box into shape before wrapping it. That's what hammers got invented for. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

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u crank Old enough to know better Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Prince Edward Island Posts: 11,748 Downloads: 136 Uploads: 0	Gift bags. Only way to go. __________________ “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” ― Arthur C. Clarke

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ikalugin Ocean Warrior Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: Moscow, Russia Posts: 3,212 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	Can't you buy a box and place the gift (in it's own packaging) into it? __________________ Grumpy as always.

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ikalugin Ocean Warrior Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: Moscow, Russia Posts: 3,212 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	I do not believe in the concept of regular gifts and by my (low) individual social status I am not obliged to give them to my peers and superiors yet. __________________ Grumpy as always.

12-23-18, 12:16 PM	#8
August Wayfaring Stranger Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 23,227 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Bah Humbug! All you really need are some stick on bows and some sense of timing. You wait until the kids have gone to bed then bring out the presents from your hiding place. You stick bows on them and put them under the tree. Christmas present deployment complete and now it's Miller Time! We wrap presents so they look pretty in that short period of time between putting them out and the kids waking up. Hours of work for a couple of pictures and an "aww" or three before it is destroyed in the morning. You have to realize that to a child the wrapping paper is just an impediment to getting to the present. A last often frustrating obstacle to overcome before playtime can begin. There isn't a kid ever born who would be mad that their new bicycle or Suzy Home Maker Oven or whatever else they had wanted from Santa, wasn't wrapped up in paper and scotch tape, and I daresay that there are few parents, at least the ones who are detailed with post Christmas cleanup chores, that would prefer the addition of piles of shredded paper to the job. __________________ Flanked by life and the funeral pyre. Putting on a show for you to see.

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em2nought Ocean Warrior Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 3,485 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Is it already that time again? Had me worried for a minute, what did you guys start so early for? Tomorrow is the "man" day to start Christmas shopping. LOL Must be a bunch of snowflakes. LOL __________________ em2nought is ecstatic garbage! Last edited by em2nought; 12-23-18 at 08:08 PM. Reason: ?

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Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,398 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	I like to get it done earlier to avoid the crowds. This year I was running late __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.