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Wrap or no wrap?

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  • Wrap almost everything.I always have some sweets and a small toy(normally a musical christmas bear ,angel doll or similar) unwrapped sticking out of the top of the stocking.On top of the wrapped pressies in the main room I usually put a couple of unwrapped things,a teddy or dressing up costume draped over the back of the sofa,maybe a glittery ball,tubes of sweeties etc.
    I had a christmas wrapping nightmare last night.Dreamt I hadnt wrapped any pressies and they were all still in my room on christmas morning in boxes,I was frantically wrapping as hubby kept the kids occupied in the other room on christmas morning.Must buy more wrapping paper today!
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  • Beki
    Beki Posts: 917 Forumite
    i wrap everything! :D stocking presents, tree presents, main presents etc etc!

    love love love it! :D
  • Beki
    Beki Posts: 917 Forumite
    I had a christmas wrapping nightmare last night.Dreamt I hadnt wrapped any pressies and they were all still in my room on christmas morning in boxes,I was frantically wrapping as hubby kept the kids occupied in the other room on christmas morning.Must buy more wrapping paper today!

    oh no!!! :eek:

    i had a christmas nightmare a few weeks ago that i woke up and it was xmas eve, and i'd done NO shopping whatsoever. my mum stepped in, calmed me out of my hysterical sobbing and said "let's go to toys r us and get the kids sorted first, then we can sort everyone else's presents afterwards, if there's time. as long as the kids are sorted then you don't need to worry" (in that calming way that only mums can do lol).

    i woke up feeling rather panicky and vowed there and then to get all my christmas presents bought and wrapped A.S.A.P! :)

    although, the nightmare's kind of coming true! the last 2 months feel like just 2 days, and i have NO idea how december's come around SO fast!!! :eek:
  • Pips_Mum
    Pips_Mum Posts: 2,893 Forumite
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    I normally wrap everything but as our first baby could come any minute:eek: I cheated this year and used gift bags!!
    People still wont know what they have got until they undo the bag though.
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  • HoshPosh
    HoshPosh Posts: 111 Forumite
    I wrap anything and everything :lol: Hell, I have to be stopped from wrapping things that aren't presents.



    ... and I use too much sellotape :lol:
  • i wrap everything!! i remember sneaking downstairs going through all my pressies then going through my brothers and telling him exactly what he had before he had chance to look through his pressies. Very naughty hehe
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  • Beki
    Beki Posts: 917 Forumite
    lol your poor brother!!! hee hee
  • Ooooh I have to wrap it all too !! Doesn't feel like a pressie unless you are ripping paper off it !!
    I...like quite a few others... LURVE wrapping pressies :D
  • jembie
    jembie Posts: 936 Forumite
    I always wrap everything..Well I say everything, I don't wrap the fruit or the choccy coins and I put a few chocolate bars in there that aren't wrapped either but everything else has to be wrapped.
    Santa used to have different paper from me but these days I think he cheats and nicks paper and tags from my wrapping bag ;)
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  • never_enough
    never_enough Posts: 1,495 Forumite
    I always wrap & tag everything, but hate doing it. For some reason I end up wrapping every present, except mine, & it takes forever. I like the idea of fabric bags though, might make some of those.
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