We started doing gift bags and when we get a gift we date the bag inside and the name of the recepient then we save the bags and reuse them it is fun to see how long it takes before the bag comes back to you. I stopped buying gift wrap about 10 yrs ago I just hate throwing all out . We tried the cloth bag thing , very seisible, but did not fly. I think the idea of a place for all that stuff is great though , tell him now you need a nice wrapping table

Love your fun colors! Patricia - what a fun idea regarding dating the gift bag! Re-using is recycling!

Add some hooks and little bins to the doors, for scissors, exacto knife, tape, etc.

Patricia, that’s a cute idea for the gift bags. My aunt and I traded a bag back and forth for years!

I had thought about adding hooks to the doors - still not sure though - the door panels are very thin and I don't want them to come through on the other side. I am toying with command hooks but unsure if they'll hold.

As far as a wrapping table ... we're just moving into a new place, and this is the 3rd bedroom which is going to be a multi-purpose room - so another lower cabinet is being repurposed into a computer cabinet, he's using a table top to make a desk top which will connect the computer cabinet to my wrapping cabinet - so it'll be a desk/wrapping table. I also have our folding tables in the room too.

We tried the cloth bag thing , very seisible, but did not fly.

Yeah, we tried it, and we never seemed to have the appropriate size -- just didn't work out as anticipated. We also tried using old popcorn tins as Christmas wrap, and that worked okay, but they're too big to store between Christmases.

I am toying with command hooks but unsure if they'll hold.

I was going to suggest this very thing. If you clean the wall before you stick it on, it'll last a long time. Consider that wrapping items tend to be light -- a gift bag full of bows, a ziplock full of name tags.

When I retired, I had Command hooks on the wall that'd been in my classroom more than a decade. If yours do fall, or if you want to reposition them, you can get more "sticky tape" to attach to the same hooks.

An idea to add:

Two years ago I bought plastic shoe boxes /labeled them with my family's names. These are my stocking stuffer boxes -- throughout the year, as I pick up various small things, I store them in these boxes, and I know how I'm doing for each person.

That's a great idea - I love the idea of doing stocking stuffers all year long! Since my sons are adults, and both have long term significant others I'm usually struggling at this time of year to find stocking stuffers for them!

I found a website last year after xmas called My Wishlist Online - where you can make your gift wishlist and then share it with other people - you put in the links to what you want and if your friends/family get on it as well, you can all check off things that are purchased. Of course no one else in my family decided to use it. But for me, it was handy cuz I could just add things throughout the year as I found things I liked/wanted. Then when I was ready to share it I could refine it. Since the "kids" are always saying I'm so hard to buy for lol.

My DIL is the queen of stocking stuffers and she collects the stuff all year I am going to mention the plastic storage box idea to her I think right now she just puts bags of shopping in an unused closet.

My cabinets at camp are too thin for screw in hooks. I glued strips of metal to the inside of the doors and used magnetic hooks. They can be repositioned when .needed.

That’s a fantastic idea to glue metal strips! I never would have thought of that! Thank you!