Perfect.
Posted on 12/25/2004 2:47:52 AM PST by woofie
Are you still married to her?
of course
Then who needs lawyers? LOL.
My daughter loves very fine and expensive red wines. I bought her two bottles of such and did not wrap or bow them. She didn't seem disappointed about that when she got them.
Ya can never have too many lawyers....on second thought
I once wrapped all my gifts in green bar computer paper and used 9 track tape as ribbon.
Perfect.
So true. I had to wrap gifts last night because my wife got paged to work. I simply could not believe how difficult it was. It took me nearly three hours and I got absolutely nothing right. I couldn't even cut the damn wrapping paper straight. Nothing but jagged edges. But I got the gifts covered - even though I had to cut out squares of wrapping paper to "patch up" some of them. Bad as my wrapping job was however, the kids didn't seem to notice this morning how bad a hack job it was. They just ripped the wrapping right off just like any other year. So maybe the women are going through this trouble all for nothing.
One year I gave my wife a few fairly prosaic things, a hair dryer, some lotions and such but I told her she would really love one of the gifts, a medium sized box wrapped pretty well, On Christmas morning she unwrapped the other things first as I told her to save the box for last. She opened it up, finally, and found a nice but ordinary looking bathrobe inside. she tried not to look confused and dissapointed. I told her to try it on and worked very hard not to say anymore. Eventually after about 5-10 minutes she found the sapphire ring in the pocket.
Merry Christmas "ping", baby!
Been there done that!!
I just use scotch tape, without the wrapping paper. If you make the layers thick enough, they won't be able to see what's inside, plus it makes for hours of fun unwrapping the package. It's also quite amusing to see when small animals and children get stuck in the packaging! Sort of like the scene in LOTR-Return of the King, when Frodo gets stuck in the giant spider web!
Just like cowbells, you can never have too much scotch tape!
Mark
If the gift fits in a cigar box, and the box still has that little nail to hold it shut, the gift is wrapped.
After all, which should be preferred? Shabby, gaudy paper, or fine Spanish cedar?
I once ordered a sheet of uncut money bills for wrapping paper. For some reason there were zero complaints about the odd wrapping.
My husband is much better at wrapping gifts than I. One year, he even used his cad pc & plotter to design some pretty cool custom paper.
Heheheheeeeee
Sometimes a sadistic streak is good!
a couple years ago I watched my girlfriend wrap presents... the secret to getting rid of jagged edges is to fold the paper over and go from there... although like most guys I just feign helplessness until a woman helps me...
So what do I do for my girlfriend? Do the best I can and hope she's serious when she says she doesn't care how it's wrapped as long as it's from the heart!
"How can you live with yourself?"
The important question is how does my wife live we me? She's truely a saint.
"I told my sister that I was just giving her an empty box for Christmas."
That's a good one. Here's one you might try. Wrap a present and then with great fanfare announce that they cannot take it out of the freezer until Christmas day. They can shake it or handle it as long as they return it to the freezer. Really gets the mind to working. (Wrap up a frozen desert. Strawberry shortcake works real good.)
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