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Wrap or no wrap?

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  • rainmac
    rainmac Posts: 7,063 Forumite
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    I've always wrapped everything but this year I'm not wrapping some some of my boys presents. For DS2, he's got loads of craft stuff which I've put in a big blue plastic box and will leave it like that. Also done both of them a basket of books, again not wrapping them. I've always wrapped stocking pressies but thinking of not wrapping these either, not sure yet!
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  • 1sue23
    1sue23 Posts: 1,788 Forumite
    I did not wrap anything last year as I consider it a waste of paper ,but I am going to have to this year worse luck ,my granddaughter bless her said it would be more exciting if my presents were wrapped ,but did say I can switch the lights off instead to save money.
  • Fag_ash_lil
    Fag_ash_lil Posts: 5,150 Forumite
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    I spend hours and hours wrapping everything .....HSnana.gif

    Father Christmas uses different paper to me ....

    I usually disguise everything i wrap ..... i make them into crackers ...or add some cardboard to change the shape of the obvious presents !!

    i normally love Christmas .... but for some reason i can't get motivated yet this year :rolleyes:....

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  • Janepig
    Janepig Posts: 16,780 Forumite
    I'm going to fess up to being a bit weird here, because when I was a child at home my parents never wrapped our christmas presents and I never felt I missed out at all. What you don't know, you don't miss. Personally I loved seeing everything under the tree, taking it all in, and then investigating each present. However, DH thinks this is bonkers, and consequently [STRIKE]we[/STRIKE], sorry, I,:rolleyes: have to wrap every last thing for DD and DS. And what a pain in the arris it is (not to mention a waste of paper). My mother was obviously environmentally friendly before it was fashionable to be so!!!

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  • clairec79
    clairec79 Posts: 2,512 Forumite
    We tend to use gift bags (and reuse them each year)
  • melancholly
    melancholly Posts: 7,457 Forumite
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    wrap everything - but in brown paper, with ribbon round it (that gets ironed and reused :$). my mum also has a drawer of all reusable bits of paper from gifts she's received... which is pretty handy for last minute wrapping too!
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  • MX5huggy
    MX5huggy Posts: 7,168 Forumite
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    You have to wrap everything!! I like to disguise things you will only get a CD shapped parcel if it has no CD in it!!! My parents would take presents apart so I remember a socket set every socket, and attatchmnet was wraped separatly! Finnaly I found the case to put it all in!

    I do this now but you have to careful, its best the wife does not open the tin of fish food before she opens the big box with the fish tank, in it!! It was quite sad how the fish had died I think I used too much selotape, may be they did not get enough air.

    Anything from Santa does not have selotape on it he does not use it you know.
  • saubryn
    saubryn Posts: 610 Forumite
    I wrap everything. I'm one of those people that spends almost as long on the presentation of the gift as I do thinking of the gift itself. I don't always use wrapping paper - I like gift boxes, gift bags, etc. At the moment I'm doing some hand made Christmasy favours made out of some spare felt, with snowflakes embroidered on them - I'll be putting small gifts in these.

    This is for adults though - I have a lot of friends who aren't crafty themselves but love little keepsakes, and keep ornate boxes, hand made things long after the present has been eaten / otherwise used up.

    I only buy presents for one child, and they are much more interested in the presents than the wrapping paper :) I still try to pick something 'different' though.
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  • Rachie_B
    Rachie_B Posts: 8,785 Forumite
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    i wrap presents but NOT large things eg a bike,and not stocking fillers

    xx
  • purplevamp
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    I too wrap everything except the chocolate coins and the tangerine.
    This takes me back!! I used to always get a tangerine or satsuma and some loose nuts in my stocking as a child. I guess no-one told Father Christmas that I'm allergic to oranges! You'd think my Mum would have had a quiet word with him :confused: :rotfl:
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