Wrapping paper - all the same or different???
By ebsharer
@ebsharer (5515)
United States
August 18, 2008 12:56pm CST
At the end of every year I buy Christmas wrapping paper on major discount. When I buy it I normally buy 5 different wrapping papers.
1. For my son
2. For my daughter
3. For my daughter
4. For my husband
5. For the adults
I buy each kid a different paper and the adults all get the same. My one daughter loves snowmen so I get her paper with snow men on it. My son likes some thing different every year last year it was spongebob so I got that. My husband loves nascar so I get him that kind.
I do this so that I don't have to use tags on the kids presents. I wrap them and only I know whos is whos and they don't till its time to open. I am a pretty wrapper when it comes to adult presents using a lot of ribbion and bows. I love to make each present special for people to open.
So what about you?? Do you use all the same - different for each person - or what ever you grab???
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10 responses
@sunshine4 (8703)
• United States
18 Aug 08
I buy a bunch of different wrapping paper after Christmas too. I do buy tags too. I like to make it more of a surprise whose gifts are whose.
My mother in law has done it your way before. It worked. I will put some gifts under without tags, so my kids wonder who it is for~ especially if it is something big! I also use some bags, but usually just a few. I would rather take the time to wrap the gifts because I love the way they the look all wrapped under the tree.
@ebsharer (5515)
• United States
18 Aug 08
I wrap each and every present. Once every thing is wrapped I put it in gift bags that way for the people that are opening at my house and the going home - they have a bag to keep it all in. Easier to transport that way. Or if I don't put them in bags I have large gift bags avaliable for every one to take home there things. I normally buy them after Christmas really cheap and keep them for the next year.
I already have 8 bags in my attic of Christmas presnets. I buy all year long. Each person has a bag in the attic and as I buy things I put the items in the bag. By October I should be completely done Christmas shopping and wrapping. Only leaving a few odds and ends for the week before Christmas. Those are the presents that can't be bought early like cookies and candy for the stockings.
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@sunshine4 (8703)
• United States
19 Aug 08
That is such a great idea to wrap and then put in the bag! I know when we go to my inlaws, we always bring bags and laundry baskets to bring the kids gifts home in.
I have a box of things for Christmas already bought, but am not on top of things like you. I look for things on clearance and buy all year too.
I have bought candy after christmas and froze it. I tried it one year as an experiment and my husband and I ate it the following year and it was fine, so I will sometimes pick up candy for stockings after Christmas and freeze it too.
Sounds like you wrap as you buy. I love getting everything out before Christmas to see what I have bought and then start wrapping. I love to wrap:)
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@ebsharer (5515)
• United States
19 Aug 08
I do wrap along the way. I do it for a few reasons first being that I love to enjoy Christmas time and laugh at every one running around like crazy becuase they waited till the last minute. Second because I have a few family members that wait till the last minute then call me to help them wrap. It makes me nuts, but I do it because I love them!
@carolscash (9491)
• United States
30 Oct 08
I try to wrap the gifts from Santa in paper that I don't wrap any other gifts in. However, both girls are about too old for that. I usually just use a variety of paper for the gifts except for the girls. I try to get whatever they are into that year for some of their special gifts.
I don't use ribbons or bows on any of my gifts. To me,that is such a waste of money.
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@ebsharer (5515)
• United States
30 Oct 08
Like I said I do all the same for each kid and then all the same for the adults. Every once in a while there is an odd one just because its too big to fit the paper I have.
I use ribbons and bows on the adult paper. I am the "pretty wrapper" of the family. I buy it all after Christmas for the next year. Last year I spent about 20 bucks and got enough paper, bows, ribbon, tissue paper, boxes to last me like 3 years!
@palonghorn (5479)
• United States
20 Aug 08
I love your idea of using the paper instead of a tag, wish I had thought of that when my daughters were still young lol. I didn't use tags when they were little, I would put the name in a small place on the back of the package, where they couldn't find it lol. I normally choose paper with a theme, for all packages, such as snowmen, santas, or color theme, reds, whites, etc. I use the same papers for everyone, but I do love making tags, with bows, embellishments, etc. (from scrapbooking supplies LOL)
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@ebsharer (5515)
• United States
20 Aug 08
Don't get me wrong I use all that pretty stuff on the adult paper. Its the kid paper I just use a pattern per child - saves tags. For other kids not my own I write right on the paper to: timmy love: us ... For the adults they get ribbon tags bows you name it!!!
@lilybug (21107)
• United States
19 Aug 08
My son has always gotten a special wrapping paper and this past Christmas on my daughters first Christmas she got special paper too. Adults just get what ever paper I pick out other than the kid stuff. MY daughter had Disney Princess last year and my son had Spongebob.
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@zeny_zion (1283)
• Philippines
20 Aug 08
i buy wrapping paper in rolls. 10 to 20 pcs. in a roll. of course different designs and colors. atleast i can save more money on it. even in greeting cards. bookstores offers it in plastic which has 50 pcs in different ocassions.
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@ravinskye (8237)
• United States
18 Aug 08
I usually buy some sort of kid wrapping paper for our kids. This past year it was carebears. I usually try to give them all the same, but your idea is really good. I'll have to try that this year. I usually just buy the cheapest stuff I can find, but if I have more than one present for someone I try to wrap all their stuff in the same pattern.
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@ebsharer (5515)
• United States
19 Aug 08
Thats why I buy after Christmas for the next year. Like last year after Christmas I got a HUGE roll for only 2 bucks and it will last a few christmas' because of how big it is. I was able to find that same size in 3 different patters (one for each kid)
@snowy22315 (208906)
• United States
18 Aug 08
That's a neat idea. I usually just get paper I like and wrap the gifts accordingly. I think this year though, I will wrap the kids presents with one kind of paper and the adults presents with another. I think this might be the best way to keep track of things. Every year i seem to misplace some presents or something. It is annoying.
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@ebsharer (5515)
• United States
18 Aug 08
I am pretty good about keeping all the presents together. I have gift bags in my attic and once I buy some thing for some one it gets put in the bag. I do wrap every thing but put it all back in the bag so when people open presents they can take it with them easier.
My mother in law for instance - I bought her a Christmas present for 08 the day after Christmas 07!! So her bag got started!
@liquorice (3887)
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18 Aug 08
Well, I must say you're very organised with your wrapping paper!
To be honest, I just tend to buy it as and when I need it. And as my daughter doesn't (yet) have tons of birthday parties to go to, I don't need it very often. My husband and I don't wrap presents for eachother and the rest of the family aren't really bothered about whether a present's wrapped or just in a bag! I mainly wrap presents for my daughter or for her friends when she does go to a party, as I find it's the kids who really like to rip it apart, lol!
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