WHAT KIND OF GIFT GIVER ARE YOU? typically.. how do you wrap your gifts?

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I wrap my simply I do put ribbon and bows on the gifts but I am a horrible wrapper! I try my best to get the paper to match and to look nice but to no avail. I must have two left hands cause it always looks like something a first grader had wrapped!

From time to time depending on the occasion I will add a special touch such as a candy cane for a Christmas gift. I do like giving the cards that plays tunes, I get a big kick out of seeing the persons reaction when they unfold the card! My husband is a great wrapper and so is my mother in law.

I would call my mom in law up and ask if she was busy - I knew what the answer would be. She would come over and I would ask her if she would like to do the wrapping for me as I was busy making goodies for the dishes that I give family members. She would sit for hours and wrap for me.

The cost: a cup of coffee :-) Sources: personal opinion ragrug_lady's Recommendations DELUXE GIFT WRAP - Once Upon a Christmas Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 (based on 1 reviews) 3M 15 Scotch Gift-wrap Tape Amazon List Price: $3.10 Now I use gift bags and gift boxes. They are stress free! .

I am a minimalist when it comes to presents! Compared to my answers (oh, how I love adding pictures), I am a minimalist! It’s not because I’m lazy, I just have always been this way.

I like simple ribbons, I like simple paper, and a card that allows me to say what I want to say, in my own words. NOW...that’s not to say that I don’t enjoy when I get a gift that wrapped in an over-the-top manner! I just don’t have the ability to keep it from looking like the house in Christmas Vacation.

If I pick a shiny bow, then I want shiny ribbon, then I want shiny wrapping paper, then I get a shiny card...next thing you know...you need sunglasses to open your present - otherwise, you risk retinal damage! Cards, while I have received some AWESOME singing cards, I tend to shy away from them. I lean more to the ones that allow my input more than the card company’s input - again, nothing wrong with the singing cards, I just tend to pick out the screeching chicken cards.No one wants to have permanent damage to their hearing - to go along with the retinal damage that I might inflict if I go with show stopping wrapping paper and cards!

I’ll stick to my subdued approach and not cause injury to anyone’s retinas! Sources: my opinion! CAK's Recommendations Gifted Wrapping: Creative Wraps and Ribbons for Every Occasion Step-by-Step Instructions for Stylish and Elegant Gift Wraps for Perfect "Present"ations Amazon List Price: $19.99 Used from: $11.15 Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 (based on 4 reviews) Holiday Cards & Wrap (Crafts Magazine Presents) Used from: $4.89 Maybe I could find some ideas in these books...and try to be a bit more fancy!

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I am as picky about the wrapping as I am about the gift. I use to shop for wrapping paper The way others shop for clothes, I was always on the look out for some thing out of the ordinary and when I saw a one that is exceptional, I’d buy a couple of rolls. I still have a pretty good stash that I dip into once and a while.

However, I have become more environmentally concerned and have found some very nice alternatives. I now design my own paper using Hemp or recycled paper products, and create my own designs with paints or stamping. I always use fabric ribbon it allows people to put it away and be reused when they give a gift to someone else.

I am lucky to live in Los Angeles and often go to the Garment District where there are many wholesale fabric shops that also sell to the public. There I can purchase all types of ribbons (satins to sheers in all widths) for 10 to 30 cents a yard. I also look for pretty fabrics when I am there to use for wrapping gifts too.

The Japanese have wrapped gifts with fabric for centuries. These squares of cloth are called furoshiki. You can use Furoshiki to wrap anything from bottles to boxes and it is so pretty.To see different ways to tie Furoshiki click here.

As you can see you are only limited by your imagination. You can use all types of fabrics. I pick up vintage scarves at yard sales and flea markets and I have just started to marble my own fabric using this process.

This makes such a beautiful wrap. I also use plain wooden boxes that you can get at any craft store and stencil them in such a way that they can be used around the house for storage after the gift has been opened. With a lovely red ribbon and a sprig of fresh holly or spruce this would be a perfect Christmas box.

Many people would say too much trouble, I say not at all. For me the wrapping is part of the gift. Even if it's just a very simple gift, when it is wrapped creatively and beautifully, somehow the gift is magically transformed into a dazzling Cinderella.

Beautifully wrapped gifts show how much you care and is always noticed and always appreciated. Sources: Linked above Video Your basic Furoshiki wrap Video A basic bottle wrap..

I LOVE presents! Everything about them! I like to make them as special as possible---I try to wrap them as imaginatively as I can, and I make home-made cards that do things.

Like, for one, I drew a portrait of the birthday girl on heavy card-stock paper and cut her out. Then I punched holes in her earlobes and put the pair of earrings that was one of her gifts on it. I also like to write silly little illustrated personalized poems or limericks for people and stick them in their cards.

Or, once I made an accordion-style card that folds out and out and out (for a 50-year anniversary card, I made 50 folds, and each one had a flower on it. It really drove home the point of how long 50 years is! Which, come to think of it, could be either a good thing or a bad thing, depending on how you look at it, I guess!

When the couple opened it up, it made a colorful banner that they hung up over the table at the reception. Because it was so thick when folded, I presented the card as a little gift. I wrapped it in colorful paper, which was actually a photo of a bouquet of flowers from an Oprah mag.

, and then fashioned a paper bow for the whole thing. It came out pretty neat if I do say so! ) For a woman who liked cats, I took a brown paper lunch bag and put her (small) present inside, wrapped in that plastic poppie stuff to foof out the bag nice and round.

This made the cat's belly. (The cat was sitting on its haunches in begging position. ) Then I made a cardboard head with wire whiskers and fastened it to the top of the bag.

Back paws and tail were also cardboard, and the cardboard front paws stuck out a bit in front but folded over. I made the front paws "hold" the birthday card. A piece of jute rope and a little plastic silver bell left over from Christmas made a collar.

All of it was stuff I already had in the house, so it was inexpensive and I thought it was cute. But she thought it was maybe TOO cute, because she didn't want to open it; I had to extract the present and then fix it back up, and five years later, the cat-bag is still sitting on her book shelf where I see it every time I go see her. I swear the little thing sneers at me, especially since I have yet to see her wear the necklace which was the actual present!

In spite of the dubious success of that one, I love buying presents, too, and shop all year for Christmas and birthdays. I have a big closet in the garage for my stash. If I'm out with someone and they keep picking up something or they like something but don't want to spend the money for it, I delight in coming back and getting it and then squirreling it away.

I'm at my weakest, though, when it's several months until Christmas or a birthday and I get a really dynamite deal on something that I know somebody really wants. I get so excited I feel like I'm gonna blow a gasket or something, and if I happen to see that person before I get the gift safely stowed, I can't stand it and just HAVE to give it to them then so I don't explode. My husband sounds just like your boyfriend.

He gives wonderful, thoughtful presents, but if they haven't been wrapped by the store gift wrap station or the girlscouts mere hours before the event, they'll be presented in the bags in which they came. The card (if I get one) is usually in the glovebox-- "Wait, I got you a card, but I have to fill it out! " Then he brings it in, goes into the bedroom and shuts the door to fill it out, emerging a couple of minutes later to present it to me, the glue on the flap still wet.

I find it adorable. As far as receiving, I love that, too. And I love the absurd.

One of the best cards I ever received was from my girlfriend for Valentine's Day. She got it in the 99 cent store and on the front was a crisp basket of fresh produce, gold ink highlighting the cut-out of the big bunch of broccoli in the center. When you opened the card, there was the broccoli in solitary splendor, with "For the one I adore" written below in a lovely romantic script.To add to the ambiance, once the card was opened one of those musical doohicky things played "Fur Elise.

" what more could you want for 99 cents? .

Practical! One way to extend the gift (and be kind to the earth at the same time! ) is to wrap the gift in something that fits the gift theme.

I'm such a bathtime princess that I love to give gifts of bath products I enjoy to other women (they usually appreciate it more). My handmade soap, hand-knit washclothes, and homemade mixed bath salts (or storebought, if you like) looked beautiful wrapped in some cushy cotton towels. One Christmas I realized I didn't know what in the heck my stepbrothers would like, so I decided to give them money and gift cards for things like music.

But what to wrap it in? I made duct tape wallets! The funny thing is that they liked the wallets more than what was inside - they wouldn't shut up about how cool the wallets were.

Food gifts can be "wrapped" in a pot with a lid. Tea leaves can be given in a decorative teapot. Camping gear can be stashed in a duffelbag or backpack.

The key is just thinking about a related thing that will hold the gift, then stick a bow on it and call it done. No waste, extra value, and you look creative at the same time! Sources: rpi-polymath.com/ducttape/index.php amazon.com and experience laureth's Recommendations ChicoBag Reusable Shopping Bags: Green Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 (based on 16 reviews) Chinese jewelry box with brass longevity symbol - lined Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 (based on 1 reviews) Dr Pepper - diversion safe Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 2 reviews) Book Safe, Diversion Safe made with a Real Book Amazon List Price: $29.89 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 7 reviews) Case Logic 48 Capacity Metallic CD Wallet (Silver) Amazon List Price: $12.99 There are a million ways to wrap specific things.

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I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.