Wrapped Gifts

[walfin]

How do you like gifts to be wrapped?

I love it when the entire gift can be pulled out of the wrapping paper, leaving a nearly intact empty shell.

It's nice when the scotch tape is on the inside of the flaps (or double sided tape is used) and not on the outside.

When the wrapping paper tears because the scotch tape can't come off cleanly, I hate it. So I prefer glossy wrapping paper. I also hate it when the wrapping is pasted to the box of the gift. That way it can't come off cleanly and the damage isn't even contained to only one layer.

I don't like to rip the wrapping paper open. Do you? Even if it can't come off perfectly, I like to keep it in its pristine condition as much as possible.

 

[preilemus]

I like to tear into things. No sound is a more pleasing indicator of entrance (at least of the sort you would expect to hear on christmas morning).

But I do not like bags with paper stuffed on top of the gift. It says they couldn't bother with proper wrapping to me.

 

[Stoic Beverage]

I haven't actually gotten a wrapped present in a couple years. I just get cards, or cash (usually a combination of the two).

When I did get presents, though, I liked shredding the wrapping paper to bits. I often times prefer actually ripping into the gift to the gift itself.

 

[Mary]

I love ripping the paper open dramatically.

 

[Bird]

I enjoy using the "close your eyes
and I'll hand it to you" method.

 

[Mary]

I enjoy using the "close your eyes
and I'll hand it to you" method.

Hehe
But what if they peek?

 

[Bird]

Hehe
But what if they peek?

They're going to see it eventually
anyways (:

 

[Melllvar]

I never understood the point of the wrapping. There's just so much packaging in the world as it is. I go to the store and buy something which is already generally packaged, sometimes with multiple layers. Then to take it home I put it in another bag (sometimes the clerk will go so far as to put each item, no matter how small, in it's own separate bag). Then social conventions force you to wrap it again just so someone can unwrap it as soon as they get it.

What is with this madness?

 

[Mary]

They're going to see it eventually
anyways (:

Touché
:P