Present wrapping - arghhh!

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.

Tell her all about the umbrella.

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

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😄

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!

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!

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 😂.

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.

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….

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.💐

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.