Okay this kind of started in another tread but I thought it would be interesting to talk about. Do you wrap the day of BF? The days after or Christmas eve? I start wrapping after Thanksgiving when my son is in school I turn on Jerry Springer or Maury or something or that nature and spend a few hours every day wrapping. I also label the gift in code so I know what is in them. So I'm not giving the gameboy games before the game boy! I save all the empty roll for my son and after school we make swords or something. :bunny:

Everything gets wrapped within 24 hours and tagged, to a) prevent my family members from seeing it and b) to prevent me from deciding to keep it for myself. :yay:

I usually wrap the week before Christmas. i want to be able to see the fruits of my labor :) Really, because no matter how many lists I have, I forget if I go so-and-so anything yet.

Usually I try to get it wrapped the day after. I mail some of the gifts that I get, so I want to get them out before the Christmas postal rush and so they can sit under a tree for a while. :)

I get all of my wrapping paper during the post-Christmas clearance sales, so it's all ready and waiting for me.

I decided that after last year, that I shouldn't wrap my dd or hubby's gifts until shortly before. I forget what I buy for them! LOL But with everybody else, I wrap right away as it gets sent out of state within a couple of days of being purchased, so they have it under their tree in time for Christmas! :p

I save all the empty roll for my son and after school we make swords or something. :bunny:
That is so much fun!

Brings back fond memories of whacking my sister and friends upside their head :yuck:

Brings back fond memories of whacking my sister and friends upside their head :yuck:

You can only imagine how much of that goes on here with my 3 kids. The "fun" lasts year-round as they fish paper towel rolls out of the trash to do it with too.

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You can only imagine how much of that goes on here with my 3 kids. The "fun" lasts year-round as they fish paper towel rolls out of the trash to do it with too.

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My kids too :) They also like to make telescopes out of TP rolls...

You can only imagine how much of that goes on here with my 3 kids. The "fun" lasts year-round as they fish paper towel rolls out of the trash to do it with too.

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Wow year-round "fun"? Do you ever get a moment of peace and quiet to yourself?

Debbie says brb one of her kids is dunking the others head in the toilet.

Nevermind that answers my question :eek: j/k

I usually save one empty roll to roll up the leftover paper and put it inside the roll to keep it from getting damaged. Then I can pull out these small/oddsized pieces to use later, such as for a small gift box or item that is going into a stocking

I wrap things for the people in my house that might be "found" if I don't wrap them.

:g_good2ba Gifts are wrapped right away and set out on display until Hanukkah. One gift a night is given during the eight nights.

The torture is going to be great to watch, as Hanukkah comes really late this year...

I wrap my older dds and hubby and then they wrap every thing else....I hate to wrap gifts...love to buy them though...lol

oh forgot....my 3 yr old even helps wrap hers I just tell her they are for her cousins...lol..what...she never remembers....hehehehe

I try to wrap as soon as I get it, but usually wind up wrapping on Christmas eve.

Its funny you should post this. Just yesterday I was bored. Husband the night before worked midnights so he was sleeping. Kids were in school. I decided to pull out the gifts I had already bought my daughter and start wrapping! (My husband never got around to putting the paper/tags/bows away in the shed last year so they were in a box in the second garage). All items I bought my daughter are wrapped, tagged, and put away. About 8 items so far. My son will be next time Im feeling "bored"!! I hope to stay on top of everything this year!

That is so much fun!

Brings back fond memories of whacking my sister and friends upside their head :yuck:

Are we related?? :D I sooooo tortured my sis too!



My hubby and I have a tradition of wrapping all gifts Christmas eve after the kids have gone to bed. Of course every year we ask ourselves why we waited! :eyepoppin But it has been that way since we married (13 years) so no since breaking tradition! (Plus, like booterbunz, I also forget what I buy! ;) )

That is why I started to wrap now. 2 yrs ago, I started buying super early for christmas. I hid them in different places. Well I over bought as usual. (Norm for me). Anyway, the following year around my husband's birthday (april) we were cleaning out one of our hallway closests and what do I find but a whole bag of toys from Toys R Us that were supposed to be for my daughter! (Infant toys). Thankfully, my nieces were born so I kept them for that christmas. By wrapping now as soon as I get them and putting them in the appropriate contractor bag, I won't over buy (So much) and won't lose gifts!

That is why I started to wrap now. 2 yrs ago, I started buying super early for christmas. I hid them in different places. Well I over bought as usual. (Norm for me). Anyway, the following year around my husband's birthday (april) we were cleaning out one of our hallway closests and what do I find but a whole bag of toys from Toys R Us that were supposed to be for my daughter! (Infant toys). Thankfully, my nieces were born so I kept them for that christmas. By wrapping now as soon as I get them and putting them in the appropriate contractor bag, I won't over buy (So much) and won't lose gifts!


It is so funny you say that because there is STILL an Elvis book in a box in my closet SOMEWHERE that I got 2 years ago for my sis! LOL :2roller:

I will wrap any gifts for DH as soon as I get home - that or just hide really, really well and wrap them ASAP.

The majority of Thanksgiving weekends is spent decorating the house so I will probably put off wrapping my "haul" for a week.

I just did my first round of wrapping this past weekend. I had a shopping bag FULL of books and DVDs, etc. and I wrapped them all! :) No bows or ribbon yet, I will put those on when Christmas gets closer, that way I can fit all the packages neatly back into the shopping bag and they won't get crushed.

I keep all presents and two big Rubbermaid totes full of gift wrapping supplies in the spare room so its all there when I have a few minutes to grab it. I will wrap things in little spurts between now and Thanksgiving.

Then I'll probably have a marathon session the second week of December.

There is another subject do you really doll up your gifts for the family or just wrap it and call it good? I just wrap it for the kids I figure they don't care about wrapping. Packages for the family outside of my home I wrap a little nicer.

no....we have so many gifts under out tree that they smashed...and with a 3 yr old you cant scatter them out to far into the floor...you know ...for the scooter and bike to run over...lol

I wrap whenever there are no kids in the house, O.K. that's NEVER! I usually have to stay up late one night the week before Christmas and bring it down out of the attic and start wrapping.

I make a list of what I purchased and for whom, then I wrap them in different colored paper for the kids and hide them. Nothing for the kids get to/from labels.

Everyone else gifts are wrapped and tagged.


..Everything is wrapped that weekend if not on Black Friday.

I wrap all my BF finds on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. My DH goes out with friends and I stay home and wrap!

After BF: I wrap the presents Friday night. The only exception is Cailyn's - I wait until Saturday night to do hers after she goes to bed.

I wrap usually in mid-December, when most of my buying is done and I know I won't be returning anything because I found one bigger/cheaper/better. I also wrap in code... everyone gets their own wrapping paper and the Santa gifts get special paper. The only tags I use are for friends/extended family who don't have their own paper. I was just upstairs in the gift closet today reorganizing and putting things in boxes to get ready for wrapping.

I usually start wrapping right after Thanksgiving. I have to write down what I gave who or I will forget what I everyone! It is quite a chore just to wrap all the presents,,,I have about 30 people who I buy more than 1 gift for.

I pile everything into the spare bedroom as I buy. The week before Christmas, I set up a card table and spend every evening down there doing a little bit at a time.

My hiding place is the the cabinets in the garage. My husband had a professional organizer come in and install all these white shelves all around our garages. Its great. I claimed the back cabinets for christmas goodies and ebay stuff when I do sell!

My wife and I wrap ours over the weekend. We buy our Christmas Tree from Steins and put that up on BF.

I'm with Buckwheat on why you wrap right away.

I usually wrap everything the same day I buy it.. only because that leaves less chance that the kids will see it..

I wrap as soon as I get home. The kids are usually still asleep and it's the best time. I have learned in the past that there is no safe place to hide them. A couple of years ago I thought I had everything hid, then on Christmas morning, my youngest son opened a "Santa" gift and said, "Wow I got two of these cause mommy has one in the hall closet, too." So now I don't take any chances. lol

My kids are peekers. They will find that christmas bag no matter where I try to hide it! last year, I caught my oldest re-wrapping a stocking stuffer gift. Now I did the same thing when I was his age, but he still go in trouble

we've had to wrap and then take things to my parents so my son wouldn't get into them! :)

I had some stuff wrapped today! A friend wrapped 3 big TRU bags full of stuff for me.

~H~

As soon as I clean out the spare bedroom, I am going to start wrapping, then will put them out after the tree goes up!