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| quote: Why are men genetically predisposed to screw up every package they try to wrap?
We have thumbs...
If people would mind their own damn business this country would be better off. I owe no one an explanation or an apology for my personal opinion.
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| I learned how to properly wrap back as a Cub Scout. I still use that instruction when I wrap, but I do what I can to have my wife do it all. She likes doing it anyway.
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| quote: Originally posted by flashguy:
I'm actually fairly good at wrapping gifts. Not something I get to do much of these days, though--no one to buy for.
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| quote: Originally posted by berto:
Wife jokes that it's easy to tell which gifts I wrapped because the job is not department store gift wrap level. I don't care. If the stripes line up great if one corner is bent no big deal. I've threatened to put gifts in paper bags and staple them shut.
I’ve done just that and used the funny papers for stuffing instead of colored tissue paper.
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| | | Posts: 17939 | Location: Sonoran Desert | Registered: February 10, 2011 |
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| quote: Originally posted by Oz_Shadow:
My gift wrapping looks like someone wadded up paper around something and went to taping. At least no ones opening them to peak! They could never replicate my work.
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| | | Posts: 1245 | Location: New Hampshire "Live Free or Die" | Registered: September 02, 2006 |
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| quote: Originally posted by RAMIUS:
Because we just really care?
It’s gonna be ripped up anyway.
It’s like me building a beautiful house, and then having someone run into it with a wrecking ball. Yeah, it’s exactly like that.
You obviously did not grow up in the 1930s and 40s in a household that didn't have a lot of money. We did not "rip up" wrappings on packages, but very carefully undid it all so that the paper could be saved and reused. We were good enough at it that some pieces of paper were used several seasons. (Overuse of tape was avoided, too--it made deconstruction more difficult.) To this day I do not rip the wrappings off a decorated package, but carefully undo it. flashguy
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| quote: deconstruction
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| quote: Originally posted by Some Shot: quote: deconstruction
Exactly.
"Deconstruction" and "destruction" are not synonymous. I hope you recognize the difference. flashguy
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