Wrapping presents

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I haven't wrapped a present for a good number of years. When I did it looked like the kind of effort a 4 year old would make. What are you like at it?

I can relate, I'm absolutely t e r r i b l e.

...Well, honestly I've become better at it over the years but it still looks like crap compared to how it should, misaligned corners and an ugly little "paper mound" here and there~

Yep. Absolutely terrible. They look ridiculous, no matter how hard I try.

This is the last year I wrap my daughter's presents from Santa. They're shameful. By next year, she'll be old enough to notice that Santa should be better at this stuff, given his career, and that in fact his wrapping skills are on a par with Mummy's.

I just can't work out how to get the paper flat, or to not have it folding at ridiculous angles, or how to wrap without the paper ripping, or how not to add bumps and creases...

Having volunteered for gift-wrapping for charity a number of times, I have to say I'm now excellent at wrapping presents of all shapes and sizes.

If it's a book or something in a normal shaped box, it's easy to wrap and it looks okay. If it's clothes or something in a weird shaped box, it looks bad because it's harder to wrap.

I usually cut the paper too small, so then I have to get another piece of wrapping paper and tape the two together so I can still use it.

They start okay, but by the time I have wrapped the last few presents, they have gotten worse.

Sometimes, I wrap one thing about five times because it's fun to watch the person unwrap it and keep finding more layers of wrapping paper. A few years ago, I completely covered a few presents with tape after wrapping them and then wrapped them again over the tape. My sister cut it off with scissors because it took too long to open it.

After a lot of cellotape assaulting I can usually just about wrap something, I take too long appreciating each section of the crack-paper, I have a collection of sparkling, pompous and festively festooned wrapping paper hoarded nearby eternally, it is often a sensory rainbow to be in awe of!

I'm okay with it. I am not good at it or bad, just OK.

I went with ok, I usually improvise with whatever I have laying around. I tend to save the gift bags and tissue paper in them when I get gifts so a lot of times I just reuse those...otherwise I'll wrap it in news paper or left over tissue paper and tie it with string or ribbon.

I do suck at wrapping gifts in wrapping paper though, it always ends up looking sloppy.

I'm horrible at wrapping presents but I have bad fine motor-skills & a tremor disorder that acts up when doing things with fine motor-skills. I haven't wrapped presents sense I was a kid or teen. I mostly had my parents wrap them for me.