# Wrapping Presents!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrapping-presents/137326>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 18, 2002, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrapping-presents/137326 "2002-11-18T16:54:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrapping-presents/137326/21 "2002-11-19T18:06:24Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Hello Again \*  
> \*\*No, we would run **for** the scissors. Once we had suceeded in Scissor Supremacy (sending siblings and such into a stew over the Scissor Gap) only stately – and of course superior-seeming – strolling was sanctioned.
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> \<I slay me\> \*\*

What, there was no holding the scissors far above younger siblings’ heads, doing a little dance, and chanting, “I got the scii-ssors, I got the scii-sscors,” (sometimes followed by offering the scissors and then yanking them out of reach)?

Wanna trade siblings?

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**Author:** ![easy\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb8c5e/32.png) [@easy\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/easy_e)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrapping-presents/137326/22 "2002-11-19T20:13:23Z")

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I love wrapping presents, too. I think I do a pretty good job. I learned from my stepmother, who always does interesting things.

What I do not love, is going home right after finals (usually 2 or 3 days before Christmas), and having my dad come to my room at 10 o’clock at night, with all of the presents he got for my stepmother and needs me to wrap. Last year I told him he needed to buy wrapping paper if he was going to pull that stunt, because I was tired of going through all my nice wrapping paper. Yes, I know I should be in the holiday spirit, but I am a poor college student.

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**Author:** ![JayElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@JayElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JayElle)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrapping-presents/137326/23 "2002-11-19T21:19:10Z")

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How do you think I learned to wrap presents? Starting when I was around 6 years old, my dad would bring me my mom’s gifts to wrap. I had to learn how to fold paper _and_ keep a secret (much better than my father, I might add).

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**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrapping-presents/137326/24 "2002-11-19T21:25:09Z")

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YP - your user name appears to be apropriate.  
My wife loves to wrap to, thank God!!!

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**Author:** ![Booker57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Booker57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Booker57)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2002, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrapping-presents/137326/25 "2002-11-20T03:34:09Z")

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Gift bags are a gift from G-d.  
Wrapping is not my favorite thing.  
Screwing up an adult and child gift tags makes for an interesting holiday. Very few six year olds shop at “Victoria’s Secret”

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