The only wrapping paper in our house has Christmas designs on them, so I picked up a roll of plain blue paper to wrap Mouse_Spouse’s Valentine’s Day gift. (I’m such a practical dork; I choose blue because we can use it for birthdays, anniversaries, etc.)
I rolled the paper out on the kitchen table, and saw that – in a very light print – there was a grid drawn out on the inside of the paper! ::Angelic Choir:: I get irritated when I can’t cut a straight line. This problem is solved! Yeah! 
I noticed that grid on a roll of paper at Christmas. I was delighted and actually considered sending an e-mail to the manufacturer to express my gratitude. I still can’t cut a straight line because I apparently lack the necessary hand-eye coordination and manual dexterity, but still-- it’s great to have.)
Oh, crap. You just sent me to the colored piles of paper at the copier 'cause I forgot to wrap mine. 
Am I good or what? I found a Conversation Heart to stick on the top. I wisely didn’t pick the one that says “Marry Me”.
Holy crap! Is it Valentine’s Day!?
Oh, yeah, they started putting grids on the backside of wrapping paper … oh, I dunno, about seventy-leven years ago or something. Long time.
What time does the Hallmark store close? Anybody?
Since I only get the cheapest possible paper for christmas (and yes, your June wedding gift will have snowflakes on it), I doubt that it will have anything printed on the back side.
Luckily, I work for a gift wrap/gift packaging distributor. The Valentine’s Day gifts I gave were home-made, dark chocolate-dipped cherries and strawberries packaged in these boxes: my kids’ gifts
my friends’ gifts
Since my husband is away at school until Friday, all he got for Valentine’s Day is a card and some naughty pictures. The gift wrap sounds awesome, Mouse_Maven, and I actually just put it on my marketing report, because I bet it would sell very well!
That’s for cutting? Damn. I thought I lucked out and got double sided wrapping paper. 
The grids on the back of wrapping paper rock my world. Sometimes we get things right in this messed-up old world of ours.
Just curious, does anyone besides Hallmark do this?
Ooooh. Yeah, I’d love to have gridded paper. However, my de facto paper for a few years now has been this roll of holographic double-sided paper that’s not really paper. Bit hard to grid that… but hey, it’s green on one side and it’s silver on the other – works great for all events!
I just use the edge of a table to tear the stuff, then wrap that bastard around the present and secure it with duct tape.
My poorly wrapped presents are always the life of the party. One time, a relative suggested that I was trying to hard. So the next year she got a present inside a brown paper bag secured with a single piece of Scotch([sup]TM[/sup]) tape.
