2019 Christmas Thread
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Guys, that is why they invented those fancy bags where you just drop the item in and close it up.
Fancy bags can be used and reused year after year.
At our house, they wrap the gifts they put in those fancy bags. I can't win either way.
aimeeandbeatles
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You can't screw up using a fancy bag and end up with tape everywhere.
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?Fancy bags can be used and reused year after year.
Oh not really if your family is scattered across the country. I mean I suppose if they'd send me stuff in bags like that I might reuse them if I had space to store them for a year. Ironically, the people who typically pick on my wrapping skills are the ones who sent everything late and unwrapped this year.
Yeah, drop in the gift, stuff some colored tissue in over top and set it out. No tape actually required. Save the tissue, save the bag and use both next year.
aimeeandbeatles
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The last time I tried to wrap a present I accidentally taped my hand to it. 
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On the "odd life skills you never thought you'd need" front:
When I was a youngster youngster my mom worked at a gift shop, where, as she put it, "all the gift wrapping anyone ever needs to do gets done." So at Christmas my sister was tasked with all of mom's gift wrapping except gifts actually for my sister that mom grudgingly wrapped herself. Even though she wasn't doing it herself any wrapped gift coming from my mom would still have to meet her professional standards. When my sister escaped to college this task fell to me, and I genuinely hated it. Boxes of gifts for aunts, uncles, and cousins back in Chicago. Gifts for all my mom's friends. Gifts for my sister, my brother, his wife, and their kids. Mom doing full on quality assurance checks on every one of them. And by then she had gotten lazier so my gifts "were brought by Santa," meaning they appeared under the tree unwrapped on Christmas Eve.
So, I grew up not a big fan of Christmas. But I am also a supremely skilled gift wrapper.
Then one foggy Christmas Eve...well, not really, it was more like the 18th of December, but it was foggy enough since it was Bakersfield; I was making out with this woman in a parking lot having just walked her to her car. She said "I would do this all night, but it's cold out here and I have a bunch of packages I haven't wrapped." I immediately volunteered my services, she made me dinner, and I ended up living with her for about two years. Thanks mom!
When I was a youngster youngster my mom worked at a gift shop, where, as she put it, "all the gift wrapping anyone ever needs to do gets done." So at Christmas my sister was tasked with all of mom's gift wrapping except gifts actually for my sister that mom grudgingly wrapped herself. Even though she wasn't doing it herself any wrapped gift coming from my mom would still have to meet her professional standards. When my sister escaped to college this task fell to me, and I genuinely hated it. Boxes of gifts for aunts, uncles, and cousins back in Chicago. Gifts for all my mom's friends. Gifts for my sister, my brother, his wife, and their kids. Mom doing full on quality assurance checks on every one of them. And by then she had gotten lazier so my gifts "were brought by Santa," meaning they appeared under the tree unwrapped on Christmas Eve.
So, I grew up not a big fan of Christmas. But I am also a supremely skilled gift wrapper.
Then one foggy Christmas Eve...well, not really, it was more like the 18th of December, but it was foggy enough since it was Bakersfield; I was making out with this woman in a parking lot having just walked her to her car. She said "I would do this all night, but it's cold out here and I have a bunch of packages I haven't wrapped." I immediately volunteered my services, she made me dinner, and I ended up living with her for about two years. Thanks mom!
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No, the usual way; naked and squalling.
I get the opposite ... often I feel I did a terrible job wrapping, but then people just keep going on about how beautiful it looks
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I get the opposite ... often I feel I did a terrible job wrapping, but then people just keep going on about how beautiful it looks
That's what happens when you accidentally tape yourself to the package.
Ah. I knew that 'Murican exceptionalism couldn't extend to everything.
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Well, they squalled better than ordinary non-'Muricans.
All true! OMG you guys rock!!Fancy bags can be used and reused year after year.
Merry Christmas CFC Pals!!! 
Correct! This is my bread-and-butter. Wrapped stuff comes from Mommy and Daddy... unwrapped stuff comes from Santa... cause its 5AM, I've been up all night, and I ain't wrapping a freaking bicycle... or 6'x4' Basketball goal... eff that... Santa brought that ish.
Best.Story.Ever.
Not so fast ! My first child arrived completely silent, eyes open, staring directly into my eyes as he came out... no joke... it was freaking awesome... eerie... scary... and confusing as hell all at the same time... kind of like the new Star Wars
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And yet just another moment flashing by on the endless treadmill of weirdness that has been my life.
I hope that... NVM I'll PM
