How do you wrap gifts?

16 years ago

How do you wrap gifts at Christmas time, do you wrap as you buy them or wait til you are done or almost done shopping and then wrap?

I wrap when I am done shopping or almost done shopping.

Wish I was more organized and did it as I bought them. But I am so absent minded I'd forget what I bought!

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glenda_al
16 years ago
Not that many gifts, this year. So I bought gift bags from Dollar Tree.

Used to: tradition was that everyone had to receive at least one gift wrapped with comics from the newspaper.
ritamay91710
16 years ago
I usually wait till the end and then have a gift wrapping frenzy, this year, I have wrapped as I have bought. I don't know why I mixed it up...just wanted to get it done, I guess.
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lydia1959
16 years ago
I wait till the end too. This year I used a lot of gift bags because I bought odd shaped/hard to wrap items like squirrel baffles, car mats, bags of jerky, round container of cd-r's... that kind of stuff... and YES, this is what people asked for! lol
sheilajoyce_gw
16 years ago
I wait till the end and the tree is up. I separate everyone's gifts into stacks. I do keep a list of what is for whom. But then if I decide someone has too much or too little, I may move things around a bit. Then I wrap one person's gifts at a time.
cheri2008
16 years ago
I had one of those great ideas... then never followed through... was going to buy christmas theme fabric, and make various size bags.. look for closeout after Chrismas/
well sounded like a good idea... but never came to be..
seems life gets in the way...LOL
jel48
16 years ago
When I'm done or almost done shopping.
jannie
16 years ago
I used to do all my Christmas gifts in one day. Take a day off from work in December, generally early in the week. Get to the mall at nine, with a list, and buy all the gifts. Remember to save all receipts. Bring them home and wrap,wrap,wrap. Then bundle up any that need shipping and take them over to my local shipper. They are great, just bring the gifts and they take care of the rest.
joyfulguy
16 years ago
I'd need to be sure to label them when wrapping ...

... or I'd forget what was in which!

(Actually, I figure that bags're best - one can, with care, reuse paper ... but to reuse bags, it's really much simpler.

ole joyful
cheryl_ok
16 years ago
Once the tree is up, I wrap as I buy. If tree isn't up, they go in the closet and will be wrapped later
suzieque
16 years ago
I actually love to wrap Christas gifts, so I do most of them at once, with Christmas music playing and just a nice, happy feeling. Of course, the cats like to "help" ... which doesn't always turn out that way. But that's part of the fun, and they like it too.

I'm looking forward to doing it on Saturday.

Suzieque
western_pa_luann
16 years ago
I wrap as I buy...
otherwise the process is too time-consuming!
FlamingO in AR
16 years ago
Does this happen to anyone else? No matter how organized you are or how big your work surface, there's never enough room and you always lose the dang tape and scissors!

One year I bought a tape dispenser that fits on your wrist like a bracelet, that worked great. I wonder where it wandered off to? lol

I used to wait until I had everything purchased and did them all at once. The prettiest year we ever had I did all the wrappings in variations of green and silver. As I was boxing up gifts to mail, I remember thinking that those were the nicest ones I had ever done. Probably because of the 2 color theme.... I just know that was my best year, wrapping-wise. And I carried it over too, to the dining room, green tablecloth, white and silver china (my mom's set) silver deer candleholders and matching napkin rings. Man, it was pretty. Usually it's a mass of color around here, but that simple combo really worked. It kind of got lost though as people arrived on Christmas morning and stuffed all their colorful packages under the tree, but I enjoyed it up until then.
liz
16 years ago
I usually do it all at once...I used to not put them under the tree until Dec 24th after the kids had gone to bed...but then they figured out who Santa was so now their under the tree after I get them wrapped...

Flames I put my silver tree with the color wheel up last night...Now I want to put some gifts under the tree so I'm gonna go looking for silver and gold plain paper...since its what I have my mind set on...I probably wont find it! Their just empty boxes but it looks pretty to have gifts under a tree!
lindaohnowga
16 years ago
I wait and wrap everything at the same time usually the first part of December, as everything then needs boxed for mailing to our family. The boxes get sent out early to avoid that postal rush, then my poor family has to look at all those presents until Christmas. LOL My granddaughters and daughter each get a new pair of pajamas to wear Christmas Eve, so that is the only present they can open early to get them washed and ready to wear.
lindyluwho
16 years ago
Gift bags. Love 'em. Quick and easy!!

Linda
phyllis__mn
16 years ago
Yes, I've become the gift-bag lady, too.....never really cared about wrapping. DD#5 used to love it, so I would let her do a lot of them.
nodakgal
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16 years ago
I am DONE wrapping! Did the last 3 today! Yeeehawwwwwww

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