It is hard enough buying all the gifts you need for Christmas, and then there is the wrapping!
I find this task one of the most arduous, but it can be fun and easy. Try these great tips to help you get the job done fast.
A great excuse to stock up on all things glittery and sparkly!
1. Gather all your supplies before you start wrapping. Getting up 10 times to find the tape and tags is a sure-fire way to make you give up until another day.
2. Give each gift a quick examine to ensure no price tags are left on, and if there are a quick burst with a hot hair dryer should see them come off with ease.
3. Organise a gift wrapping party. Invite your friends to bring their pressies to your house for a wrap session. The only rule is they must bring wine!
4. Let the kids help. Give them big sheets of plain paper and let them draw or paint to their hearts content. Use their creations as wrapping paper. You can also give them some cardboard sheets that you can then cut up to use as cards or tags.
5. Make sure you have a yummy treat or 10 to enjoy whilst in solitary confinement of the wrapping room.
6. If you have not finished your shopping yet, make use of the gift wrapping service that many stores and most shopping centres offer at Christmas time.
7. Listen to your favourite music whilst wrapping, it makes the time go faster.
8. Bribe a teenager with cold hard cash to take care of the wrapping for you this year.
9. Don’t wrap a single gift, put each one in a gift bag.
10. Instead of trying to wrap big gifts in paper, use a disposable plastic table cloth instead.
Have you got a great gift wrapping trick to share?
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Great advice, especially the snack one!
I usually wrap as they arrive so that I am not so overwhelmed!
I always plan to do that but it does not usually happen.
Love the snack one too! I use teatowels for the adults (you can buy cheap ones at $2 shops after xmas for the following year) and make that part of the gift. Gift bags are better for the environment as they get reused over and over
Any excuse for chocolate!
Great tips! And I especially like no.2 – I’ve never thought to use the hot hair dryer to remove price labels. I’ll definitely be giving that one a go.
Those damn stickers can cause such annoyance so finding a solution was awesome.
Number 8 for the win! Brilliant!
Thanks 🙂
Yup, I find that getting all organised before you wrap makes it so much easier and faster too!
Ai @ Sakura Haruka
It just takes tooooooo long otherwise.
Yep! Good one.
Never thought of a disposable table cloth! Good thinking
Leanne @ Deep Fried Fruit
Sometimes you have to get inventive and it just works.
Love simple solutions.
I love that gift bags are so easy to reuse and yes, music is essential for wrapping x
Gift bags are great, I seem to collect lots of them and forget to re-use them.
I wrapped my brother and sister-in-laws gifts in a Christmas tea towel which meant no paper or sticky tape. I need to wrap my girls presents yet. I may attack this job on the weekend!
Love the tea towel idea!
I love the gift wrapping part 🙂
I go a little ocd on the wrapping, it all has to match or at least stick to a theme. This year I wrapped everything in brown paper with different coloured ribbons.
I am a little OCD, as long the paper and tags are in complimentary colours I am OK, but they don’t all have to be exactly the same.
Great tips. I always put the carols on, have a go to bag of ribbons and bows and tags and then pour myself a drink – cointreau is very festive I think.
Cointreau sounds very festive too me!
I love listening to music while wrapping. It doesn’t even have to be Christmas carols. It all makes it festive to me 🙂
Music is how I get through many mundane tasks, like IRONING! 🙂