What is it with women and wrapping presents?

[Jaglover]

I've just watched my wife wrap up some of the presents we are going to give people.

It is a very careful operation everything planned in advance and neatly executed. It also seems to take her 1/2 hour to wrap up one present.

I took me far less time than that to wrap up the 4 presents I needed to wrap up, those for her.

She asked me whether I would like to wrap up a present with her to see how it is done neatly and I replied 'I don't really want to spend an hour wrapping up one present', she smiled but you could tell it was the wrong thing to say

[rich 36]

your is in the bin by the sound of it
merry christmas

[Lois]

I hate wrapping pressents! I seem better at the odd shaped ones - just use extra paper and be creative...it's sharp edged ones that keep ripping the paper which annoy me!!

[lazyitus]

JL,

I get your drift, man.

But to be fair, it takes me 10 minutes to make a sandwich.

[rich 36]

I always buy jigsaws as presents as theyr'e easy to wrap,
but i'm running a bit low on new ones to buy

[Jaglover]

rich 36 said:

merry christmas

Merry Christmas to you too

[nicecupoftea]

Heh!

My wife will laugh if she reads this! She is lightning fast at wrapping presents - so neat, no paper wasted, no "not enough paper" mishaps. I did one and made such a bloody mess of it that I was just on sellotape duty for the rest of the evening!

[lazyitus]

nicecupoftea said:

I did one and made such a bloody mess of it that I was just on sellotape duty for the rest of the evening!

Cunning!

[Jaglover]

lazyitus said:

nicecupoftea said: I did one and made such a bloody mess of it that I was just on sellotape duty for the rest of the evening! Cunning!

Yes, best to leave it to the women, they have so much fun

[alexkp]

One of the cleverest things I've bought in years is a Scotch 3M wrist sellotape dispenser. It dispenses precut lenghts of tape and reduces the effort of wrapping presents to virtually nowt.

I wrapped 30 presents the other night in about a couple of hours. Neat too. No sweat.

[nicecupoftea]

lazyitus said:

nicecupoftea said: I did one and made such a bloody mess of it that I was just on sellotape duty for the rest of the evening! Cunning!

[buzzsaw]

What is it about women and present wrapping? Something genetic? My wife wraps presents with clinical precision but my attempts look like I was half pissed at the time (OK.. so I was but thats beside the point. I can't wrap neatly even when sober)

[chrisgr31]

anonymous said:

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The solution to that is to get a good quality paper, as it will be thicker and more resistant to tears. The only problem is where to find it!

[chrisgr31]

Well I wrapped my wifes presents, then went upstairs to get the gift tags. Came back down to find my 14 month undaughter had ripped open two of the presents!

I wasn;t too impressed! But she did look pleased with herself!

[Jaglover]

buzzsaw said:

What is it about women and present wrapping? Something genetic? My wife wraps presents with clinical precision but my attempts look like I was half pissed at the time (OK.. so I was but thats beside the point. I can't wrap neatly even when sober)

Ah, but at least we do it quicker

[buzzsaw]

Jaglover said:

buzzsaw said: What is it about women and present wrapping? Something genetic? My wife wraps presents with clinical precision but my attempts look like I was half pissed at the time (OK.. so I was but thats beside the point. I can't wrap neatly even when sober) Ah, but at least we do it quicker

This is very true

[White_van_man]

iv just finished rapping last 2 presents 10 mins

[princeperch]

I dont mess about when wrapping stuff up - its only going to get ripped off anyway..

Run out of sellotape this year- so had to use staples to do a few..perhaps I should issue a warning with them?!

[vixpy1]

I did all my wrapping this afternoon, 5 mins before they were opened.. with some used Wrapping paper stolen from my father..

Genius

[docevi1]

wraoing stuff is teh best - especially whne the the present is saecret.

I mean I know shit loads of secrets abut presants are secreats desigenad to be found out. FReat.