Present wrapping - arghhh!

I agree. I spent ages yesterday grappling with paper, scissors and Sellotape, but only completed three items in the end.
Last year I bought some nice colourful plastic bags which you just pop the gifts into, but hardly have any left. I won't buy anymore as I think they are bad for the planet.

I have bought some gift bags but feel I should wrap the actual presents. I hate wrapping presents as my efforts look terrible. So sorry about the umbrella. Do hope your sewing is successful.💐

Am American niece who used now and then to come and stay with us at Christmas, really loved wrapping! It was a godsend, I’d hand most of it to her to do.

Nowadays I’m much more organised than I used to be - there were times when I’d still frantically be doing the wretched wrapping at ten to midnight on Christmas Eve! Most of mine is already done, thank goodness! I find that. CD of traditional carols and a glass of mulled wine do help….

Oh no Witzend I would never trust me with scissors, sellotape, paper and alcohol.

I swear Jeff Bezos monitors my alcohol intake and knows exactly when to remind me to look for "just one thing" on Amazon. And then the next day a box the size of a small African country turns up.

I’ve got to be in the right mood for gift wrapping, but when I am I quite enjoy it. I find those sellotape dispensers a god send, as the tape is less likely to get into a tangle (not fully guaranteed, but generally it’s much better), and putting on some Christmas music to set the scene helps.

I’ve drastically reduced the number of presents for wrapping anyway, having agreed with family not to bother buying gifts except for special birthdays, so Christmas wrapping is reduced to presents for my DH and flowers for the 3 sisters.

I do hope you can successfully re-sew the fabric loop, and unless your DD notices it, admit to nothing 😂.

I’ve bought dozens of Christmas bags which I fill with their presents and then put sticky tape across the top and a name tag. They are $2 each here and worth it!

ferry23 - you know she will notice! 🤣

Sew it up and confess!
She will forever feel your love and it will still be a happy tale long after you have no need for a brolly!

My local, independently run gift shop does free parcel wrapping with brown paper and string or gift wrapping if you buy the wrapping in their shop. Or they’ll wrap something bought in another shop for a £1 a go.

They even put a label on so you don’t forget what’s in the parcel and who it’s for👏

They did all mine at the weekend😄

Tell her all about the umbrella.

It’s the sort of family joke that keeps resurfacing 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

This year I have bought some large brown paper bags which I will decorate with various Christmassy ribbons and so on.

I haven't actually started yet. I hope it doesn't end up taking as long as wrapping everything.

I suppose I had better get on with it.

I’m very, very fortunate, MrJ wraps, I label and decorate. Of course I do his gifts from me - I can manage that 😄

I was watching my DD wrap presents - they were so beautifully done.

Me? Utterly hopeless.

I was given a great tip for present wrapping this year, do it on the ironing board, no more sore knees and pins and needles from kneeling on the floor and no bending as it's height adjustable. For those who feel throwing everything in a gift bag unwrapped spoils the present opening experience try coloured tissue paper, you can just scrunch it round presents and drop them in the bag, it's much more forgiving than proper wrapping paper.

Money wallets for me this year. It's a full time job is wrapping presents.

I've always found parcel wrapping difficult and tedious. My late DH used to do a lot of it but hate having to do all of it now.
For several years now I have just used gift bags and stuff tissue paper in them.
There's so much to do at Christmas I just cut all the corners I can.

I’m so poor at present wrapping. It was one of mr i’s many gifts, to sit and wrap, label every gift while I walked a dog or three
Now I have to wrap, trying to think positively, reminding myself I chose the gift with love and will wrap in a loving mindset. 🙈🌞
And I still have dogs to walk, thankfully only two

This huge bag (£1.29 from the Card Factory!) is almost full of wrapped presents for all 7 children (3 Gdcs, 4 dcs of a niece) we’ll be with over Christmas.

I hope I’m allowed to feel very slightly smug!

I don't mind gift wrapping as long as the gifts are square or rectangular. It's the weird shapes that give me the problems. (Granddaughter, I'm looking at you).

For many people in the family, Amazon vouchers are always popular, with the added bonus that they only need slipping in an envelope.

I love wrapping gifts.

I have ribbon, matching tags and add a little decoration to each one.

For bulky items, like dressing gowns or thick numbers I do give in and put them in a gift bag, which I still decorate 🤷‍♀️🎄🤶

Have always hated present wrapping and regardless of how many times I'd promise myself to start wrapping early, I'd still end up wrapping presents long after the then children had gone to bed Xmas eve. Decided this year to wrap presents as and when I bought them so the chore it hasn't beens such a chore this year. So really thought I 'd cracked it until the other day after wrapping 6 identically sized gifts using the same wrapping paper, I then decided to wrap each of them in boxes to protect them. It wasn't until putting them away that I realised the gift tags were still on the wrapped presents inside their boxes. So I had to rip open the boxes to sort out which present was for who a d rewrap the boxes. So the wrapping of 6 presents turned into 18 wrappings! Couldn't even blame it on the Xmas tipple as the bottle was unopened!

I bought a big pack of gift bags a while back - various sizes - pop the gift in the bag, pull the drawstring ribbon and tie it in a bow and that's it done!

I don't mind wrapping gifts ,I wrap them as I buy them so that I don't have too many to wrap at once, it's backbreaking.

DH does them all….superb. A surgeon couldn’t do better. Precision corners, lovely bows, subtle colour. Takes ages and I keep out of the way

I enjoy wrapping gifts but I have to be organised.

Ironing board set up, I stand but have done it sitting at times, heavy sellotape dispenser on my right along with a box of loose bows and tags, plastic bag for rubbish taped to the iron rest and a tall box which holds all the rolls of paper by my side. All set.