ST Alpha - "ST Poll: How's your present wrapping skills?" (Reading a Post)

SlickerTalk
Search Archives
The Leaderboard
The FAQ

Down to Post

Backboards:

Posts: 154

ST Poll: How's your present wrapping skills?

Posted by Mel Profit (aka Mel Profit) Dec 8 '10, 07:47

10 being - "Frig, my stuff is so beautiful it belongs in a Museum" to 1 being "Frig, my stuff are crimes against Christmas"

I'm anywhere between a 2 and a 6. I want to be better. I should be better and by the end of it all I'm back up to about a 6 but the first few presents look like they were wrapped with a RPG.

Responses:

Probably a 3. -- nm - Jelly Dec 8, 08:09
mad. mad skillz. -- nm - Elf Andie Dec 8, 08:00 11
- you strike me as just the type that has the best looking gifts in the family. -- nm - Mel Profit Dec 8, 08:02 10
  - God, yes. Her and kare. How I hate them. -- nm - mara Dec 8, 08:05 7
    - one year i had real holly sprigs! - Elf Andie Dec 8, 08:13
    - Hey, it's people like them that keep traditions alive. :) - con_carne Dec 8, 08:10 1
      - the gift bag contingent hates them for their traditionalism. -- nm - Mel Profit Dec 8, 08:12
    - they probably have a plate of fresh baked cookies on a plate nearby, some soft Holiday music...it's too damn cheerful I know. -- nm - Mel Profit Dec 8, 08:08 1
      - don't forget the laughing kids. They don't have their own kids, but the laughing kids materialize. -- nm - loosilu Dec 8, 08:12
    - right? -- nm - loosilu Dec 8, 08:07
    - *laughing* -- nm - JaxSean Dec 8, 08:06
  - *blink* OH.... "gifts." -- nm - JaxSean Dec 8, 08:05 1
    - My ST sense went off as I posted that but it was too late. -- nm - Mel Profit Dec 8, 08:09
probably a 5. but then again, i just reuse the present bags i have from last year first. -- nm - tRuMaN don't need no teaching Dec 8, 07:54 16
- I'm no good at making pretty gift bags. -- nm - loosilu Dec 8, 07:59 15
  - Suzanne worked at Bath & Body works, and they make all their gift baskets/bags in-store. - JaxSean Dec 8, 08:02
  - it's all about fun coloured tissue paper and curling ribbon. -- nm - Elf Andie Dec 8, 08:00 13
    - I can't get the rectangular paper to peek out in a pretty way. -- nm - loosilu Dec 8, 08:02 12
      - Make a (loose) fist with on hand, and poke the middle of the tissue paper into it so it makes a "cone." - JaxSean Dec 8, 08:04 11
        
        oh, nice. I need to try this. -- nm - loosilu Dec 8, 08:05 10
        
        do you put the gift *inside* the cone of paper, or do you arrange the cones around the gift? -- nm - loosilu Dec 8, 08:07 9
        
        i wrap one piece of tissue around the gift (camouflage) the rest are just for show. also, using two colours of tissue is more impressive. - Elf Andie Dec 8, 08:17 4
        
        Yeah, yeah, then you spray them with glitter and scent them with pine somehow. -- nm - mara Dec 8, 08:21 2
        
        *laughing* - Elf Andie Dec 8, 08:27 1
        
        Ha! -- nm - mara Dec 8, 08:33
        
        *taking notes* -- nm - loosilu Dec 8, 08:20
        
        arrange them around the gift. Put the gift in the bag, then put the "cones" around it. - JaxSean Dec 8, 08:10
        
        IMO, the gift is nnever inside the tissue that pokes out. If the gift needs to be inside, or on top of, tissue, those are seperate pieces. -- nm - mara Dec 8, 08:09 2
        
        ok, this must be where I'm screwing up. -- nm - loosilu Dec 8, 08:15
        
        this. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 8, 08:10
9-10. worked at a place where I was taught how to wrap and do bows and stuff -- nm - decline Dec 8, 07:54
8. -- nm - znufrii Dec 8, 07:53
I'd say 7 - 8. I wrap everything in our house, but I suck on "curved" items (i.e. non-boxed items). -- nm - JaxSean Dec 8, 07:51 1
- those are the real test -- nm - Hotkiss Dec 8, 07:55
I'm in the 8 to 9 range. I wrap everything every year. Hell, I just wrapped 50 Pinewood Derby cars last night. - Jim Dec 8, 07:51 3
- *frets just thinking about when I had to wrap a Tire-shaped Hot Wheels car carrier* - JaxSean Dec 8, 07:53 2
  - Every year, I usually take one oddly shaped item and wrap it exactly as it is. I call it the mystery gift. - Jim Dec 8, 08:02 1
    - heh. Yeah, I could see doing that for one or two. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 8, 08:04
3. I always try to conserve paper so I end up just short and then don't have the desire to waste that huge paper I miscut...so - Will Hunting Dec 8, 07:49 2
- that's what all those little scraps are for! you put them under the hole. :) -- nm - Elf Andie Dec 8, 08:12 1
  - I'm so good, I don't create scraps. - Will Hunting Dec 8, 08:12
6, better than the average male -- nm - Strongbad Dec 8, 07:49
I can get to 8, but am usually too lazy. -- nm - loosilu Dec 8, 07:49
Middling and presentable... 6? -- nm - con_carne Dec 8, 07:49
4 -- nm - Beaker Dec 8, 07:49
3 -- nm - Don Homer Dec 8, 07:49
3 -- nm - Beryllium Dec 8, 07:48
3. I'm a big fan of the "This is a gift" checkbox on online stores. -- nm - oblique Dec 8, 07:48 1
- *ding* -- nm - Beryllium Dec 8, 07:49
7 -- nm - mara Dec 8, 07:48

Post a message top

ST Poll: How's your present wrapping skills?

Replies are disabled on threads older than 7 days.