[mrs bouquet]

Just wrapped a cylinder shaped gift for a friend.    There is sticky tape all over the worktop, and I have pulled skin off my lip by trying to bite a piece off.   Got out the scissors, but the tape rolled round them and my finger.  Then tried to cut paper -  too small.  Cut another piece and it ripped,  cut another piece and it was too big.  Shouldn't have tried to use serated scissors !!  I have now used nearly a whole roll of paper and trying to peel off sticky tape.    I used to like doing this and my gifts looked beautiful  -  wot went wrong - bah humbug.   Mrs Bouquet   

[Yorkie]

Oh dear!

I empathise - I loathe wrapping presents!

[mumofstig]

I quite like wrapping things in a box, nice and tidy; anything that is a different shape is always a disaster, so I tend to save different size boxes through the year. That way, unless the present is huge, it can go in a box!!
Simples

[Growster...]

We've been saving Christmas 'carrier bags', of all sizes over the years, (mainly small), and now just pop the present in one and cover it with coloured tissue paper!

They then go back in the roof for the next year!

[Christine]

I've promised the family a Christmas veg box but you ain't going to catch me wrapping up spuds and sprouts and such. They know what they are getting as it's the tradition and would be most upset to have to unwrap the veg as they are doing the Christmas lunch.

[mumofstig]

I've promised the family a Christmas veg box ...They know what they are getting as it's the tradition ...

What a lovely idea - the old ways are, often, the best 

[JayG]

I used to hate wrapping presents with a vengeance, mainly because the only way I could work out to stop the parcel unwrapping while I cursed away trying to find the end of the sellotape yet again and remove a suitably sized length was to cut off several at once and stick them to the edge of the hearth.

This of course meant kneeling on the floor to do the wrapping - not comfortable!   

'Discovering' Sellotape dispensers/cutters have changed all that - now I merely dislike the procedure and still put it off until the last possible moment. 

(As for fancy labels and home-made curly bows - you must be joking!  )

[GraciesGran]

I have to admit that I have passed this job to my husband, he's not that keen but apparently doing it himself is preferable to me ending up on the verge of cancelling Christmas.

[Goosegirl]

My OH usually does most of them as I am not very good at it. Despite doing everything I can to measure the size of paper whilst orientating the correct way up and what motif should go in the middle and trying to get the corners neat and tidy, I always go wrong somewhere. The sello-tape doesn't help my mood as it usually comes off the dispenser all wonky.