Anyone Else Co-ordinate Their Gift Wrap?
@danishcanadian (28953)
Canada
November 30, 2009 6:22pm CST
My mother's side of the family is Danish, and my father's side had a bit of Scottish in it, plus one of our relatives once lived in a little town called Scotland, here in North America.
I found some beautiful red wrapping paper at the groccery store, and thought I'd wrap the gifts like Danish flags by wrapping them in the red paper, and cross-tying white ribbon over it.
The paper said Hallmark on it, so I thought I'd get a second roll today, because the one was not enough paper to do all of my gifts.
When Hubby and I got to Hallmark there was none of that red paper, but we did find a beautiful traditional Scottish Tartain roll of wrapping paper.
Then it occured to me that the red and white gifts would go to Mom's side of the family, and the plaid-wrapped gifts could go to Dad's side, thus allowing me enough wrapping paper for everyone, AND an easy way for me to see at a glance, which gifts I need to put in which box.
So am I the only one who has a wrapping system of co-ordinated colours, or do others do this? Please tell me about your systems.
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12 responses
@ElicBxn (63252)
• United States
1 Dec 09
I try very hard to use up some of my rolls of paper.
Last year I used up 2 previously opened rolls from the year before, most of a damaged roll of the other roommate's and 3 other rolls, without buying any!
I have bought a roll of red paper this year, but it was SO PRETTY.
I also got a tree this year - its BLACK with red lights and I've hung red ornaments on it, put red ribbon on it, have a red tree skirt on the bottom and have hung red necklaces on it. Not just red, on the necklaces, but they all have some red or black on them.
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@danishcanadian (28953)
• Canada
1 Dec 09
That sounds AWSOME!!! I would love to see a picture of that. When you get it all done, would you please post it?
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@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
1 Dec 09
I've done similar. One decorative wrapping paper for all my daughters gifts, another one for my sons, etc. But in that case, my daughter knew which were hers so she'd sneak around and figure out what her gifts were! Never figured how she did it without opening them (maybe she found my hiding place prior to wrapping!) but then the next year I switched and did the same thing, but told them hers was one paper, however they were really my sons! Got her on that one!
But now with 2 grand daughters, little ones....I have done that same thing. Wich character paper and fun festive themes, I can choose something that each of the girls like and wrap them in their own papers. THey really enjoy that!
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@EvrWonder (3571)
• Canada
1 Dec 09
I love your idea of the Danish Flag Look. Great Idea! I have never done anything like that however but I have used different wrap for different people, chosen by area. Like you, so I would know what gifts go where when it is time to deliver. Makes things so much easier and have never accidentally left one behind since.
This is a great idea as well.
For the kids in the family, I always use a wrapping paper that is child friendly. Once that includes Santa Clause, Snowmen and or Christmas Trees equipped with gifts beneath.
@patgalca (18181)
• Orangeville, Ontario
1 Dec 09
The only coordinating I did was with gifts from Santa Claus. First, I never used the same paper for other gifts that I used for Santa Claus. He had his own paper and it always had Santa on the paper. Though my kids are past that, I still put Santa gifts under the tree. They still get stockings, right? So I usually buy a new game every year addressed to the family from Santa. I guess I will continue to do the Santa thing for, well, the rest of my life.
You're idea is a great one though. I like it. Too much head work for me. LOL!
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@laglen (19759)
• United States
1 Dec 09
lol I do it too. I also keep exra plain white paper and plain brown paper so if I have one extra gift and dont want to buy another roll. This year I am using plain white boxes and decorating them. I am known in my family to tape tons of candy and little gifts to the outside of packages. We just celebrated my neices birthday. I used about three bags of candy bars to decorate her gift. Her sister picked it up and said gee I wonder who this could be from! I have fun wrapping!
@GardenGerty (157674)
• United States
1 Dec 09
I probably will not do it this year. In the past I have chosen certain papers for certain households or for individuals. I do hope they appreciate your thoughtfulness and clever ideas.
@thinkingoutloud (6127)
• Canada
1 Dec 09
I don't specifically coordinate my gift wrap, no... but I sure do wrap a lot of gifts. I always try to buy the jumbo rolls because they quite simply last a lot longer. I love the beautiful foil papers and such but, when wrapping for the kids and family, they just don't last long enough to be of good value. I have a tendency to go for "cute" papers -- with Santas, snowmen, reindeer -- or traditional red, greens, golds, etc. I had a couple of tartan rolls a few years ago that I really loved, now that you reminded me :) They looked lovely in and amongst the other papers under the tree... really stood out. The one thing that I do consistently is tag all of my daughters' gifts "Love, Santa" - and the girls are now 16 and 19 
I will never stop doing that because, when they were young and started to question whether Santa really existed, I sat them down and told them, "You DO have a Santa Claus" and I meant it - I just didn't tell them it was Mom 
I will never stop doing that because, when they were young and started to question whether Santa really existed, I sat them down and told them, "You DO have a Santa Claus" and I meant it - I just didn't tell them it was Mom 
@sarahruthbeth22 (43143)
• United States
1 Dec 09
Back when my mom was alive, I would wrap all the gifts save the ones she got for me. I had plenty of different wrapping paper. To give myself a hint , I would match the paper with the gift. So if I were giving a Cardinal calendar, it would be wrapped in Cardinal gift wrap. Most of the time it worked.
@idowrite72 (2213)
• United States
1 Dec 09
I've always just used the name tags on my packages and haven't EVER tried to do any kind of paper color match. I try to find wrapping papers that I like and sometimes I will try to match paper to people, if I feel it is possible, but I use tags to remember what package is for who and different families could have the same paper. Nothing as complicated as you do.......I just usually want to get the darned things wrapped at the last minute!!
@angel_of_charm (4134)
• Philippines
1 Dec 09
My mind is quite away with gift wrapping till I saw your discussion..Before anything else, how are you and your husband? been very glad reading your discussions though I'm not able to respond with every discussion. I just find your relationship with your husband very amazing..
So ok, I'm sorry about all that, with regards to your topic, I also try to co-ordinate the colors when i wrap gift,I do it with colors depends on the colors they favorite as far as i know off..I try to go on plain colors..I just think having too much decorations on the wrapper makes it a lil exaggerated.
@happy6162 (3001)
• United States
1 Dec 09
No I do not co-ordinated colors on the gifts I wrap. I just take a roll of gift wrapping paper and wrap the gifts with that roll until it is all gone or there is not enough to wrap the next gifts.
