oops! Dec 10- QotD- Wrapping-- Love or Hate?

Wrapping-- love it or hate it?

  • I love to wrap presents!

    Votes: 18 50.0%

  • I hate to wrap presents!

    Votes: 18 50.0%
  • Total voters
    36
Julie Billingsley

Julie Billingsley

The Ghost of Awesome Past
I swear I posted this, but clearly I didn't! So, here it is a day late! :)

I'm not done wrapping, in fact I haven't even started. I use to LOVE to wrap presents and back when I was a teenager I even had a job where I wrapped presents. But now these days I'd much rather pop everything into gift bags and call it done. I hate wrapping presents when gift bags are so easy and cute. My husband has the opinion that Christmas presents need to be wrapped instead of in gift bags, so I make him do over 50% of the wrapping now. :p

So, do you love or hate to wrap? And are you done with wrapping?
 
Love, love, Love wrapping. Really love making the wrapping pretty (ie: bows & ribbons, etc)
 
I love to wrap presents and make them look pretty when I only have one or two to do but when I have a lot to do it becomes a chore and then I begin to hate it and the ribbons, bows and pretty things go out the window in favour of a bit of sticky tape and call it done :p
 
Julie, I could say what you said word for word. Word! :p I remember loving gift-wrapping presents, but now I just feel like it's another thing for my to-do list. I would wanna pop it in a gift bag and go, except like you the hubs frowns on that. Doesn't matter to me--at least with a gift bag I can reuse it!
 
I like gift-wrapping, but if I have no time or don't feel like it I use bags, too.

I actually wrap gifts on 24 December (always did it that way), and some of them won't be wrapped (no way I'm going to wrap 24 calendars in A3 format). Like with so many things, it's not really important IMHO.
 
I love love love love wrapping presents.. And I will wrap yours too for $1 for a small gift & $2 for large gifts. :) lol.
 
I love to wrap but I'm not very good at it. I don't put pretty ribbons on, it gets ripped off in seconds so I never bother with stuff like that! :)
 
I love to wrap..but I usually just do the paper and a bow..I don't get into much time-consuming make it pretty wrapping. The past few years I've kind of started my own little tradition of wrapping the kids Christmas morning presents...after I'm done shopping I put on Elf the movie and wrap for 2 hours after they've gone to bed one night.
 
I too used to love it and manned the high school & sorority charity gift wrap tables in the mall every year. That's 10 years of gift wrapping. Then I also had jobs in retail sales starting at age 16 and just about every store I worked in did gift wrap over the holidays. I'm very very good at wrapping gifts and it is quite possibly the only thing I am a perfectionist about.

However, most of my kid's gifts are awkward shapes & a PITA to wrap. Plus I just don't have the time any more. I made a bunch of cloth bags in holiday fabric about 8 years ago and about half of the gifts go in them. Also I decreed that nothing in a stocking has to be wrapped leaving me with approximately 6 nice flat normal sized boxes to wrap every year.
 
I use to LOVE wrapping presents... then I got married and hubby's family totally do not appreciate it... so that takes all the fun out of it... I get all my wrapping and bags when they are 50% (or more) after Christmas. I can't believe how expensive that stuff is!!
 
I love to wrap and always have. It's not a huge chore for me because I have a small family (including extended). I have everything wrapped already for our family Christmas next Saturday (my parents, sister, niece, nephew). Then I just have a few things to wrap for Christmas Eve with DS, DIL, and DGD. I wrap Cheyanne's as I get them, some go under the tree right away and some stay hidden until Christmas Eve.
 
I LOVE to wrap. It makes me happy. I like to make the packages pretty, but this year I'm keeping it simple because I already spent all my gift budget and have none left to buy fun ribbons or wrapping paper. haha :D I'm just making do with what I have.
 
I wouldn't say I love it, but I enjoy it. I am sick of gift bags...any gift for someone in our household is wrapped with wrapping paper. Gifts for anyone who doesn't live here gets put in a recycled gift bag, if I have one that will work, that is.
 
I love to wrap presents. In fact.......I have too much wrapping stuff. I can't seem to stop myself. LOVE IT.

Oh and I haven't even started to wrap.........you got to have gifts for that. Seriously. Only two bought and many more to go. I just haven't been in the mood. *sigh*
 
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I am kinda in the middle. I like wrapping gifts and I am good at it but sitting for a long time makes my back/neck hurt so I can only do a few at a time.
 
I voted love it but really I just like. I mean I hate it....I love making package look pretty...but sometimes at Christmas it can get to be bit much with presents to wrap for 5 kids!!! :D :D

Oh and I'm not done....haven't even started. I won't start till probably this coming weekend!!!
 
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