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Ok, let me set the scene....

I love Christmas,      :-*
I love my wife,         :-*
I love buying presents for her,     :-*

Considering all of the above you'd think that this would be a great time of the year for me and yes you'd be right!

All except one little part of it that is.............wrapping the blooming things!   :redcard:

It's not that I don't want to do it, I just find it's something I'm particularly rubbish at doing.   

I've built up some "present rules" over the years such as always buying easily wrappable ready-boxed items, not to mention getting wrapping paper that has lines printed on it to assist my cutting out!    Hell,  I've even now got a sellotape dispenser from the Betterware lady!   

Despite all this every year I end up with a pile of presents for my wife that look that our five year old godson could have wrapped up.  Actually that's probably doing him a disservice as well !   ;surrender;

Anyway, tonight's the night for the annual nightmare as she's out singing and I'm currently poised with scissors, wrapping paper, labels, bows etc etc     ;sark;

So wish me luck and any tips gratefully received!   :dontask:

Only buy pressies at shops that offer free gift wrapping services or at the very least ones that wrap for a price

I'm rubbish at wrapping too but I don't worry about it - the paper is going to get ripped off soon enough.

Bollocks.......Thanks for the reminder mate,  Have to do it now as im on the beer all day tomorrow so wont be in much shape this time tomorrow..

Ok this is really bad but i got Ginger to help me wrap her presents yesterday, lol, i am that useless.

MUGS !!! give em cash, shove it in an envelope... JOB DONE !!!

you could ask your biatch tikay to wrap them for you......  ;hide;

and they say romance is dead !!   rotflmfao

 :o   Oh Claire !!   ( and not in a Gilbert O'Sullivan way either!   ;D )

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lol,  I am terrible at wrapping gifts as well. I think it is a male thing.  It is a very difficult thing to do, I just fold it over and then scrunch up the ends with some tape. It looks bad, but it is as good as I can do

My wrapping is rubbish too, think you are too particular about you're wrapping Keithy by the sounds of it.  I mean paper with lines, cellotape dispensers etc.  Far too practical to be a bloke. ;bumwiggle;

Goodluck  :)up just done ours , i'm also not very good  :)

I wouldnt say that ;)

Only because if you did you know you will be roped into helping next year!

He's actually better than me !! he also did the tree this year and that also is bloody better  >:?

Oh, sorry, wrapping pressies??? Yeah your crap! lol

Sweeping generalisation alert: hopefully one day scientists will figure out why women can wrap presents so much better than men. ;D

I always remember my Mum wrapping presents making them look like a work of art; literally just the right amount of paper to cover the item (no more and no less), sellotape hidden underneath bows, and wrapped with ribbon. And a little card attached to the ribbon saying who the gift was for and who it was from. Must have taken her hours...

That's the secret right there, it's all in the amount of paper you use. Too much and it gets all bulky and difficult to fold neatly on the ends but too little and it gets fiddly. Make sure when you are making the folds on the ends that you create proper sharp folds and it will stay in place and look better.

I've never understood how some people can't wrap, I use to do all our family's presents (except my own of course) from about 10 yrs old. Mum hated wrapping and she use to bribe me into doing it, so with 5 sisters and brothers I've had a lot of practice!

I always buy small presents so I don't have to do much fecking wrapping.

In fact, everyone's getting book tokens this year!

Will she not see what they are if she wraps them for you?

Gosh, you are quick Snoopy! lol As it happens I knew what I was getting anyway so it didn't really matter. I'll still act all surprised on Christmas morning though. ;)

Christmas Wrapping Service: £1.50 per hour.
Please send all gifts to Poland.

I have a surefire way to avoid the wrapping nightmare, i don't buy presents :D