Gift wrapping

Have you a friend who would do it beautifully for you?
Ask them. They probably would enjoy helping you out like this.

I love gift wrapping and have happily wrapped gifts on behalf of other family members. I'd be very happy to wrap things for others.
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...but yes. If a gift is gift-wrapped as a service I think it should at least be wrapped!

Thanks for the replies. It’s reassuring to hear that I’m not being unreasonable by feeling annoyed.

As for the answer for Doodledog, i would go so far as to email them and ask for a refund on the gift- wrapping.

Goodness me yes i would be livid, as i'm a bit hopeless at wrapping too, usually. I have paid extra for things gift- wrapped from the fragrance shop online, but not very recently.it was about £2.50& then later £3 per perfume,but could be a bit more now.But they do an excellant job.Not much choice in colours i think, i got a light sky blue for a ladies perfume and a dark blue for mens cologne,but finished with silver / blue ribbon .Really proffessional though.I got a gift set this year from boots and that came gift-wrapped already in a nice patterned cheery looking wrap and a yellow ribbon on.No extra,thats how it came, was a bath/shower set i think.about £12.Its best to shop around maybe.My family are well used to my odd wrapped presents now but i am getting a bit better i think.Practice really must make perfect🤔😄

I’ve made cloth draw string bags historically for wrapping awkwardly shaped presents, and told the recipient that if they didn’t want to reuse the bags themselves to give them back to me to do so

If you go on Pinterest it shows you how to simply wrap just about anything, and make it look very professional ……

That was meant to say, I’d be raging too

Id be raging, a Verona. I’d contact them and say you were very disappointed

I understand why you are annoyed. I would be too.

In future, I suggest you look for paper carrier bags ready made out of gift paper and use those. If you tie the handles together with a ribbon in a big bow, it will look nice and safe you the expense of a professional gift wrap that does not come up to standard.

i am glad all I give now is money as that is all they want but i hated wrapping once I had finished it looked like something the bomb squad had been at!

With arthritic hands I find wrapping presents in tissue paper is much easier, and neat-ish corners are less of a problem. Stick on a ready-made bow if you can't tie ribbon. There are lots of pretty tissue papers made especially for birthday and Christmas present wrapping.

I worked at Harrods as temporary Christmas staff a few times. This was pre Al-Fayad when it was still Fraser Group.

We all had to do a training day and one of the things we were shown was how to gift wrap. This service was offered free of charge and customers were offered a choice of paper, ribbon and labels.

I bet they don't still do it.

In France when we bought box of chocolates from Leonidas, they always asked if it was a gift, and if it was, they wrapped it beautifully, and finished it with their company sticker and curly ribbon. There was no charge for the service.

I’d tell the company my thoughts, Doodledog. I’d feel obliged to put yet another layer of wrapping on!

My daughter recently organised a birthday gift for me, with a gift box. When I opened it, there was the present and there was the gift box - flat packed and unassembled, shoved beneath the gift! She paid £10.95 for it, as well. The only consolation is that they seem to have sent two items instead of one.

I would be angry too. it's a lot of money to pay for a gift that wasn't really gift wrapped I think I'd let everyone know on Tustpilot.....these stores don't like bad publicity..

I use drawstring bags for Christmas presents (I agree that they are an excellent invention), but as this is a special present for a special birthday I wanted a special wrapping .

I think it was the branding as much as anything that irritated me - I don't like paying to do people's advertising for them. That, and the fact that the box wasn't wrapped (as I understand it, at least), but had a bit of card wound around it.

I bought gift bags which come with drawstring ribbon ties - you just pop the gift in the bag, pull the drawstring closed and tie the ends of the ribbon in a bow. Couldn't be simpler, look really nice and come in a variety of sizes too. They weren't expensive either.

That's a lot of money for not very much .
I've received gifts of chocolates over the last few years and they come in a pretty bag tied with ribbon and 4he cost was similar .

I'm giving some costume jewellery as gifts for Christmas. I found perfectly acceptable gift boxes in Pound land and I'll use them.
If you find gift wrapping a chore there's the Japanese method ,which must be demonstrated on YouTube. I haven't checked .
Basically the demonstrator makes a gift bag which looks very neat and professional .