The Front Porch Swing

[Tomtommom]

I like wrapping presents. Either newspaper, or simple brown or white wrapping paper and some red silk ribbon or twine makes pretty packages.

I do too, and the other kids love unwrapping

 

[tntchix]

I didn't wrap a single gift this year, dd would wrap boxes and bring to me for tags. She wrapped all her own gifts. LOL I am almost out of paper from the clearance sale 4 yrs ago. Phew. Now I can go back to brown paper wrapping. Much prettier than all those loud, sometimes gaudy paper rolls and I can personalize it too.

 

[lazy gardener]

Vehve: I love your wrapping. So simple it's beautiful. I've saved gift bags for years, and rarely wrap anything. My SIL made cloth gift bags about 4 years ago, and I still have the 3 that ended up in our family. when I put a gift in the cloth bag (they all have velcro closures) I tell the recipient that they can have the gift, but I must get the bag back!

 

[bruceha2000]

we dont wrap we put in gift bags.... that way they can be used for more than one year. we stuff colorful tissue on top and that gets used more than once too.... would that work for him?

deb

Decent quality wrapping paper can be used MANY times if you you unwrap rather than tear into the gift. What was on a BIG package might be on a somewhat smaller one in the future and so on until "little things come in small packages". There was familiar paper under the tree this year that was new probably > 10 years ago.

I didn't wrap a single gift this year, dd would wrap boxes and bring to me for tags. She wrapped all her own gifts. LOL I am almost out of paper from the clearance sale 4 yrs ago. Phew. Now I can go back to brown paper wrapping. Much prettier than all those loud, sometimes gaudy paper rolls and I can personalize it too.

Kinda goes that way with us as well. When you have a lot of adults, sometimes picking out their own gift (usually clothes, we are BORINGLY practical) works best. My wife's sister's gift to their mother came with a tag that read "bet you can't guess what this is". The joke being my MIL had picked out the shirt (on sale of course), wrapped it and used a tag that was new about 5 years ago in the same circumstances.

My wife bought herself a belt, her mother bought herself a shirt. The basic plan is to "balance the account" after but it turned out they were < $1 different in price so no accounting to do. I did wrap my MIL's gift though so the "surprise" was what paper it was in.

 

[tntchix]

Decent quality wrapping paper can be used MANY times if you you unwrap rather than tear into the gift. What was on a BIG package might be on a somewhat smaller one in the future and so on until "little things come in small packages". There was familiar paper under the tree this year that was new probably > 10 years ago.


Kinda goes that way with us as well. When you have a lot of adults, sometimes picking out their own gift (usually clothes, we are BORINGLY practical) works best. My wife's sister's gift to their mother came with a tag that read "bet you can't guess what this is". The joke being my MIL had picked out the shirt (on sale of course), wrapped it and used a tag that was new about 5 years ago in the same circumstances.

My wife bought herself a belt, her mother bought herself a shirt. The basic plan is to "balance the account" after but it turned out they were < $1 different in price so no accounting to do. I did wrap my MIL's gift though so the "surprise" was what paper it was in.

The presents she wrapped had all been moved into different boxes so no one knew what was what. Youb should have seen their faces when they thought they knew what they were opening

I also use gift bags, but not for our family. Too easy to peek.

 

[Tomtommom]

I buy big rolls of wrapping paper after Christmas 75% off... I think the one with santa on it is 4 years old. So much paper on it

The sesame street paper and transformer paper has been used 2 years in a row... still 1-2 years more left on it. I bought a new roll at Aldi this year thinking I was almost out. D'oh! I have enough paper left to wrap gifts for the next 4-5 years

I finally used the last of the bows. I bought that bag 75% off 4 years ago.

I'm a big fan of reusing, but not cheapo paper.. that stuff tears so easily. It barely makes it through one Christmas.

 

[bruceha2000]

I'm a big fan of reusing, but not cheapo paper.. that stuff tears so easily. It barely makes it through one Christmas.

Yep, I had to get some paper this year (all the old stuff was at the in-laws) and what they had at the grocery store was definitely "one use only" paper. Much as I wasn't all that fond of the kids selling high end wrapping paper in grammar school (because who REALLY wants to try and sell stuff), I sure wish someone came by the house selling it now! More expensive but probably 4 times as thick as the cheap-o stuff, it isn't much thicker than tissue paper.

 

[vehve]

I'm a big fan of newspaper (just don't use the obituaries, unless it's for someone you dislike)

 

[Alice28]

I'm a big fan of newspaper (just don't use the obituaries, unless it's for someone you dislike)

We use to use the comics for wrapping . Especially my brothers gift as he really enjoys reading them.

 

[perchie.girl]

comics are good.... I like brown paper sacks too. but I also love the pretty colors of wrapping paper.... or Gift bags. To discourage peekers I wrap the gifts in the bags in Tissue... No tape but tissue.... All can be refolded and reused many times.



Blink Blink. NOT a morning person..... today I take my mom in for Cataract surgery.... Her appointment is at Nine fifteen am..... and its a drive almost to Mexico to the Docs....

Dont know when I will get back I am just the driver.... I dont do hospitals and my cousin is going in with mom. So I will be able to nap in the car.

I leave in about 45 minutes to get coffee and stagger over to moms to pick them up.

deb