Paper Gift, Ripped it or Carefully Fold it?

I never often got a present from someone. In this 3 years, now.. i probaby keep everything at that present. the paper wrap, the notes.. those things will company me at my room as long as i wanted. LOL

I don't know when I started to do this but if my memory serves me right, I have been unwrapping gifts and keeping the gift wrappers since. Maybe one of my relatives, particularly my aunt, has influenced me on this. Everytime I receive a gift wrapped in paper, I try to preserve the wrapper because we used to give many gifts during Christmas. And the list includes; aside from our immediate family members, my aunt, uncles, cousins, friends, officemates, and in-laws. You could just imagine the number of people and gifts we wrap each year. So, we save a bit on wrapper by reusing them. I don't want to sound cheap but that's the way we do it. After all, what's more important is the gift inside the wrapper, right?!

I could care less about what the paper looks like. I'm concerned about what is inside the paper. I hate when people take forever to open a gift because they are too concerned about the wrapping paper. I just wish they would tear it open already. The suspense drives me up the wall.

I appreciate beautiful gift wrapping but I don't try to preserve it. I do save ribbons, though, because they're more expensive than paper and I use them again. I especially used to like it when someone gave me a gift in a beautiful box, no wrapping, just ribbon. I could use the box and the ribbon both again! But nobody has given me a present for about three years now so I don't have to worry about paper!

I tear into it, unless someone tells me to keep it... because they want it. Otherwise I don't care as we can always buy more paper next year. Besides it seems more people are being gifted by gift certificates.