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How To Make Wrapping Presents Not Suck?

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Awe the wrapping of the gifts.  This should be your time to shine!  You’ve finished all your shopping, checked that list twice, all that’s left to do on your Holiday to-do list is wrap the gifts and put them under the tree.  This should be peaceful, easy, enjoyable, maybe even fun.  SHOULD be, but it’s not.  It’s a time suck, frustrating, and more often than not left to the very last minute so crap just ends up being thrown in gift bags and topped with tissue.  This means the presents you spent HOURS shopping for are unwrapped in 30 seconds and it’s over.  OVER!  Well not this year.  This year there will be no whining or complaining.  This year gift wrapping will be fun.  Okay, maybe not fun, but this year I vow… wrapping the gifts will not suck.

Here are 5 ways to make gift wrapping not suck: 

Be Prepared

I’m guilty of having gifts hidden all over the damn house.  Hey, it’s what happens when you start picking up “little things” here and there three months before the big day.  The next “fun” job in the wrapping game; hunting for the wrapping paper, tissue paper, and ribbon.  This can prove to be a real time killer.  Next task, try and remember who had the scissors last.  Just when you think you’re all organized and ready to go, that’s about the time you realize you have to run out for a second, to buy scotch tape.  Don’t be like me.  Be prepared, know where all your gifts are and have all supplies at the ready.

Entertain Yourself

Put on a Christmas movie or music and ban your people from the house.  You know so you can really feel the spirit of the season.  Christmas comes but once a year, might as well embrace it.

Bring On The Snacks

C’mon, self-explanatory.  Everything is better with snacks.

Call In Back-Up

At a certain point in the wrapping gifts session, you will have one of two thoughts.

1) Your kids are spoiled and you bought too many gifts.

2) You are old.

This is because your back has started to ache from bending and contorting wrapping all those gifts.  Do yourself a favour and delegate some of the gift wrapping.  Many hands make light work.

Time for Champagne

Of course, it is!  Put a fire in the fireplace, grab a drink and get wrapping.  PS This will also help with that backache that was starting.

Merry Christmas!  xoxo

    • Comments

    1. I quite enjoy wrapping gifts, though getting up off the floor afterwards is murder these days, lol.

    2. This are great suggestions. A few of my friends have mentioned to me this year that they make wrapping gifts a date night with their husbands. This year I’ve just wrapped gifts a few at a time for the last week and a half. I only have 8-10 more to wrap

    3. Loved this post, luckily I don’t have too many gifts to wrap these days, but when my 7 were little it was chaos and then the Advent calendars 24×7! I was often up to 3 or 4 am on November 30th.

    5. I make it fun by putting on a Christmas movie (to really get me in the mood) and drink while wrapping haha. eggnog and rum or a glass of wine really help the process for me

    7. I completely agree – Everything IS better with snacks!!! It’s all about avoiding the hangry!!!

    10. i love wrapping gifts! only thing that frustrates me is how the tape or the scissors go missing and I haven’t moved from my spot on the floor!