Christmas gift wrappings

[Wren]

How do you wrap your Christmas gifts ? Do you buy matching paper and gift tags, run of the mill stuff or use wrapping paper salvaged from last years gifts ?

 

[RadishRose]

I don't wrap anything anymore. I use gift bags with some tufts of Christmas tissue stuffed into the top.

 

[Aunt Bea]

I don't wrap anything anymore. I use gift bags with some tufts of Christmas tissue stuffed into the top.

Same here, first I check my stash of recycled gift bags next I head to the $tore.

Another easy option for kid's toys is a pillowcase.

 

[Knight]

Stopped gift exchange years ago, the what to get to give got tedious. Friends & family are relaxed since we explained our reasons for not continuing the "tradition"

 

[CrackerJack]

I am not a keen wrapper of presents Christmas or otherwise and no patience to make the gift really attractive despite being artistic and creative.

I have rolls of Christmas paper harking back a few years; rolls unfinished with resolutions to use it next year...and do I? Nope! And so it goes on

 

[fuzzybuddy]

I kind of stopped gift giving at Xmas, too. I'm not racking my brain over getting the perfect gift for my Aunt's second cousin's wife's brother-in-law, whom I last saw in 1967, and who gives me some lousy waste of wrapping paper gift, each year. That's my rant on excessive gift giving. As to actually answering this thread- I use the wrapping paper from the monster, industrial size carton of wrapping paper that I bought at Sam's a decade ago. Still got a lot left.

 

[chic]

I wrap with Xmas paper and top with bows. If in a hurry or out of paper, I use Radish Rose's suggestion of a gift bag with a bow. My gifts are sometimes too large for Xmas bags so I do have to wrap. I really don't mind. My family is worth the time and effort.

 

[charry]

I wrap with paper and put a name tag on them.....bottles go in xmas bottle bags, and cash goes in xmas envelopes.....

 

[StarSong]

I use a couple of rolls of Christmas wrap that I bought from Costco a few years back. It's high quality wrap AND the reverse sides are non-Christmassy (polka dots) that work for birthday, shower, and other occasion gifts. Win-win.

No ribbons or bows - I'm not skilled at the art of wrapping.

 

[CarolfromTX]

I use gift bags whenever possible, most saved from previous years! I found that the Dollar Tree is the cheapest place to buy gift bags. But I do wrap a few things in paper and stick a pre-made bow on them. One year I made the mistake of buying a huge roll of wrapping paper. I got so sick of it, I threw it in the recycle bin last year. DH does all his wrapping on Christmas Eve, usually late. And does a really bad job of it, too. LOL!

 

[Gary O']

How do you wrap your Christmas gifts ?

How? Lessee, lesseeee, good question, since I don't do gifts

Quit since seeing what was under last year's trees of all our little darlings

Now, my wife, she makes goodies, of which they will enjoy
Uses those Dollar Store boxes and bubble bags

 

[toffee]

if have a odd roll over I use it - I buy tags as well -and I do silver ties to get a ribbon look '

 

[CrackerJack]

I forgot to say that I cut old Christmas cards into gift tags with pinking shears and enjoy this little excercise of lurking artistic skill. I save old bows from gifts and use them again the following year...what a cheapskate I am eh not really but its a bit of fun cutting up old cards

 

[jujube]

My mother would always make everyone carefully unwrap presents in order to reuse the paper next year. She'd actually iron it to make it look "new".

Bows, ribbons, all were recycled.

My mother could squeeze a Nickel til the buffalo's nose bled.......

 

[Wren]

When I’m running low, I stock up on wrapping paper in the January sales, and a few years ago I bought a box of sticky back gift labels, seeing as I only have a couple of people to buy for I reckon they will last longer than I do !

 

[GeorgiaXplant]

During and right after the war we saved the wrapping paper and ribbons, ironed them and put it all away to use the next year. It was probably a combination of leftover from the Depression and not being able to buy wrapping paper and ribbon. It was a long time before my family stopped doing it. Now hardly anything gets wrapped. Gifts are either in gift bags with tissue stuffed into the top or holiday-printed gift boxes. Sometimes the gift bags get saved but not the boxes. Ribbons and bows are scarce because nobody here uses them.

 

[Catlady]

Two decades ago I was going to the after-Christmas sales to buy more wrapping paper and my daughter and girlfriend asked me to buy some for them. Then they only bought two rolls each. Now I have enough rolls to last me until kingdom come. I was pissed!

I don't re-use the wrapping paper but do re-use some bows and use and re-use gift bags when item is very small or odd shaped.