Smaller, mostly square ones tend to get wrapped; larger or oddly shaped ones tend to go in bags.

Or the Amazon bags can be reused easily too. The attached gift cards are good for at least two rounds of giving... and after that, just add a new one (easier than wrapping!)

but I prefer to wrap gifts. Both my parents were good at wrapping, and they taught me to do it at an early age. I actually enjoy the activity, especially this time of year, listening to Christmas carols. Thanks as always for a very interesting question.

wrapping paper and bows and delight at what was in the box. It didn't matter to him, how I wrapped it. He thought it was Santa"s elves that did it.

does the ribbon 🎀 complement the paper, where are the scissors, where is the scotch tape (I just had it), where are the tags, does this present 🎁 go to my sister? I’m confused.

That does it, I am bagging it. Now where is the tissue paper?

Is Christmas 🎄 over, yet!!!!!

Call me crazy but I love creating beautiful packages. I just finished wrapping 18 packages for my daughter-in-law. When we were living in PA, our local cable company came to our home and did a 30 minute show on wrapping packages. Obviously I am retired and have the time.

lovely, Thank you PittBlue.

complete with ribbon and a big shiny bow. Now everyone gets a bag with homemade yummys, chocolate candy, and a mason jar mug filled with my White Christmas drink.
White Christmas drink
2 parts Smirnoff peppermint vodka
2 part Irish Cream
1 part Crème de Cacao
Chocolate syrup to taste

recipe.

accidentally, be prepared for the mother of all hangovers.😂

up a pretty tray with pretty Christmas shot glasses filled with White Christmas. It was only fitting I offer a toast to the Christmas season with my guests as they arrived right? Right? Seemed like a reasonable thing to do…and it would have been if everyone had arrived at the same time but they didn’t so lots of toasts and one slightly toasted hostess.😂

Poofy bags no thank you!

I want shiny paper, ribbons and bows!!!

If not now, then when???!!

woman. Love, deb. I can't believe what your gifts look like.

I try not to let on that I know how.

I am a wrapper. I can wrap a doll house. I can wrap a go cart.

I can wrap.

department. I am the gift wrapping king now!

I was a “floater” which meant I filled in any time some department was short handed. My best girlfriend worked there too. One day they put both of us behind the Gift Wrap counter. Just us, no supervisor! My friend had never even wrapped a gift before and I wasn’t much better. I remember the looks on people’s faces when they got a gift wrapped by one of us! Uneven edges, gaps in the paper, a bow that looked like a 5-year old tied it. After a while I guess some customers complained so we didn’t last till the end of the day. (Not fired, just moved to another department).

I consider myself a decent gift wrapper now,after wrapping gifts for 40 some years for my family. But I’ll tell you the best invention. Holiday printed opaque Ziplock bags. They are great for clothing or small to medium boxes. Boys don’t care if a gift is pretty. I have used them over and over again and they do the job! Stuff with tissue paper and gift, zip open, zip shut. Quick, easy, and reusable!

can't wrap a gift. DUH, And my child didn't care. When I see the beautiful wrapping on gifts, I am in awe,Thank you , Diamond_Dog.

working in a fine china shop. I was taught to gift wrap huge cardboard boxes containing a 96 piece, 12 place-setting service. I could wrap those big boxes beautifully in under 3 minutes.

The wrapping paper was on a mounted roller. In order to determine how much paper to rip off the roller, I was taught to do the following:

Take your hand and splay out your fingers. Use the distance between the tip of your thumb and the tip of your pinkie finger as a measuring device.

So splay out your fingers and see how many hands it takes to cover the top of the box, and then down one side of the box. Let's say for a big box, that total distance is five splayed out hands. Double that. Now you have 10 hands. Start pulling the paper off the roll and measure 10 hands of paper. Add a few inches for overlap. Rip the paper off the roll.

Now you have enough paper to wrap around the top, bottom, and two parallel sides.

Now you just finish off the edges. Before taping the paper down, line the box up on the paper so the factory edge of one side of the paper covers just over half way down on the edge. Then tape the paper down on the top of the box, and wrap one edge with the factory edge of the paper.

Now you just have to cut the paper for the non-factory edge. Cut it to a width that is just over half the thickness of the edge, then wrap and tape that final edge.

It's easier to do than it is to explain.

Done!

I just can't wrap any of that fancy origami stuff.


Also, I use tri-colored yarn and wrap it around the wrapped presents a few times and make a bow with the leftover yarn. It's exactly how some people would use ribbon but I use tri-colored yarn instead.

with their names on it. I would make an origami box out of brown paper and tie a burlap ribbon around it. They loved it. Odd, but i had them make 1000 paper cranes and sent them to the Peace Park in Japan. When I was was a kid gifts were not wrapped.

I’m not bad at wrapping, although when I worked in a jewelry store I always had to have somebody else pull my bows. I could never master that.

So I won’t.

...did one of the most thoughtful things ever. She made me a huge assortment of cloth Christmas bags in a variety of sizes, colors, and patterns. They are rather like pillow cases in lots of different sizes. Real simple - put the gift inside and tie up the neck of the bag with ribbon, yarn, etc, and there you go. A huge time saver, especially when our sons were young and my pilot husband was off on a trip, and environmentally friendly. They are really pretty, and I treasure them.

Thanks, Mom!

but what I love, and learned from my mom was a special ribbon touch.

The thin kind not sure what material they were; use two together. You do that criss-cross over the package, make a knot and have long ends. Then you take one edge of a pair of scissors and run it fast against the ribbon from near the knot till the end.
It makes lovely kinds of curly-cues!

Sometimes, I use Xmas, or Winter themed paper. Other times solid pretty colors, or colorful abstracts. I've on rare occasions colored up my own paper.

I actually happened to have seen from Google a how-to make a Xmas bag just a few days ago!
Very cool! 🥰

with brown paper and burlap ribbon or twine.

I especially like to use them as accents on gift baskets for Silent Auctions.

Ribbons and bows, yarn if it will be stuffed in a suitcase. I am a bagger who sometimes gets corralled into wrapping, so I can do it sort of. Not mentioned here are those different sized holiday boxes with lids. Easy and can be reused for many years.

Was also the days when I had 8 themed trees in every room. I enjoyed it .Bags for me know.

Trying to unroll wrapping paper around three cats is an impossible task. If I manage to unroll enough paper to wrap a gift, one of the cats plunks down of the paper or starts shredding it. Or there are little teeth marks all over the paper. And forget about ribbons.

Yeah, bags for me.

it's an awkward shape or something.

Made a real production of it, sometimes layers if paper and then ribbon and bows. Now it's bags for me whenever possible. I love the drawstring bags Amazon puts in their packages when you sy in your order "This package contains a gift". My husband and I are so bad that we sometimes just leave things in their postal wrappings and stick bows on them


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But not the way I wrap!

so I bag them. The problem is ... it's too easy for the family to sneak a peak!

I use a lot of tape and make a mess and nothing is neat about the production, on purpose. But, she loves it.

However, in my husband's family the wrapping is often the Target/Walmart/Other sack, especially for birthdays because we are all procrastinators