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Christmas is coming
Christmas is coming
Anyone seen Christmas wrapping paper in the shops yet? Due to the imminent arrival of our second daughter we already did the Christmas shopping for the 4 year old and I was hoping to get the gifts all wrapped early but can't find anyone selling paper yet.
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I personally am partial to solid colors or non-glossy paper when wrapping gifts. If I can't find the latter (because for some reason, most wrapping paper is glossy), I just buy colored paper from arts and crafts stores. Wrapping paper comes out cheaper and my wrapped gifts have more character.
Sometimes, I'd use brown paper bags (or a similar material) and put a paper bow out of colored paper.
Moreover, if the little one likes unwrapping gifts, you could wrap the gift first in several layers of newspaper and then the wrapping paper, just to see how long she takes to unwrap the gift, to build the suspense.
Just an idea.
Sometimes, I'd use brown paper bags (or a similar material) and put a paper bow out of colored paper.
Moreover, if the little one likes unwrapping gifts, you could wrap the gift first in several layers of newspaper and then the wrapping paper, just to see how long she takes to unwrap the gift, to build the suspense.
Just an idea.

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Thank you I like the idea of plain glossy paper that would work. Will be off to get some at lunch time.nakatago wrote:I personally am partial to solid colors or non-glossy paper when wrapping gifts. If I can't find the latter (because for some reason, most wrapping paper is glossy), I just buy colored paper from arts and crafts stores. Wrapping paper comes out cheaper and my wrapped gifts have more character.
Sometimes, I'd use brown paper bags (or a similar material) and put a paper bow out of colored paper.
Moreover, if the little one likes unwrapping gifts, you could wrap the gift first in several layers of newspaper and then the wrapping paper, just to see how long she takes to unwrap the gift, to build the suspense.
Just an idea.
Not so sure I like the idea of a 4 year old with black newspaper print all over her hands for Christmas Day

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Of course, the last layer would be wrapping paper.Steve1960 wrote:haha like it when my wife receives her Xmas gifts I will be sure to tell her it was your idea to wrap them in junk mailnakatago wrote:Junk mail works as wellSteve1960 wrote:Not so sure I like the idea of a 4 year old with black newspaper print all over her hands for Christmas Day
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Ignore the cold storage and expat focussed stores
There are many local focussed stores that have wrapping paper very cheap. The range is "interesting" and there are only a few of the designs I would go near, but looking at around 80c a sheet.
There are 2 outside the food court at Clementi but I have seen them in many other places. I cant think of the name.
There are 2 outside the food court at Clementi but I have seen them in many other places. I cant think of the name.
Use a UK newspaper, no ink residue on the fingers.Steve1960 wrote:Not so sure I like the idea of a 4 year old with black newspaper print all over her hands for Christmas Day
In fact your post made me realise that it's years since I got inky fingers from reading a newspaper!
p.s. Over-wrapping stuff can be fun with young children. Take a small gift, wrap in newspaper (a few sheets, round and around), then clingfilm, then newspaper, then a wrap in tin-foil, then newspaper....etc*5-6 ... and finally in gift-wrapping. So they unwrap down and down, and their imagined gift gets smaller and smaller, until the end when they find (hopefully) that it's something small but really nice

lol if i was a kid and a huge box arrived only to find a single moshi monster in it I would be upset!
Bit like cereal packets these days half of it is empty and the small print says its because of " settlement"
Now if you do it the other way round get a small box and its a key or a map to something bigger around the corner....

Bit like cereal packets these days half of it is empty and the small print says its because of " settlement"
Now if you do it the other way round get a small box and its a key or a map to something bigger around the corner....
I've done that too. Bought gifts but then hidden them in say the garden, roof, shed, etc. Then simply given an Xmas card and glued inside a cross-word, a blend of slightly cryptic/lateral and concise clues, (that's simple to put together in Excel) that via the answers to c12 clues would lead the recipient step by step to the gift. Obviously you pitch it at the audience, so it's intended to be pretty easy and fun, but maybe requires just a little thought.QRM wrote:Now if you do it the other way round get a small box and its a key or a map to something bigger around the corner....
No idea where that idea came from, it was maybe 20-30 years ago now...
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