When Christmas was at MIL's all the adults would sneak in her room on Christmas Eve and wrap together. That way we could decide what was from Santa and how many things needed to be wrapped together to make everything look even.
Now that it's just our immediate family, I will be kicking DH and the kids out of the house on Sunday so I can wrap everything by myself and hide it until Christmas.
I think of all the gifts (except mine and something small for L and his work secret Santa). Then I buy and wrap them all. Ugh. I let him put together all of L's gifts though, she has a few he needs to build this year (dollhouse and bitty baby furniture).
It was a lot of work to find these types of friends after having a kid. Pretty much all of my non-industry friends are from a meetup group. I tried several groups until I found one that just clicked. I adore them.
Plus, well, I'm awesome. Our kind just gravitates towards each other.
(Sorry to thread jack and make this a therapy session) I get sad because I put it SO much effort in our last neighborhood to do these things. I went to every meet up, I formed a book club, joined a photography club etc etc. And then we moved. I know literally no one in Queens (thanks to therealmc moving ) and I don't feel like making an effort because I know we aren't going to live here forever. I have these grand dreams of making all sorts of friends when we finally "settle down" and I'm going to be so depressed if it doesn't happen!
Anyway, the moral of the story is I would fucking love a gift wrapping party.
I was like "oh, I could host a wrapping party like the cookie party!!" Except...
I know one of those girls. Two people doesn't sound like a fun wrapping party.
Me. He's really good at the shopping (too good. He spends too much). Then I lay everything out, put aside all the small non important things to return later (he never remembers) and then I wrap all J's and DH's. Dh wraps my gifts.
Post by onehitwonder on Dec 18, 2014 16:34:36 GMT -5
Let's see...Um, that would be me! I ran home at lunch today to wrap H's presents and a few for W. I will wrap a few after W goes to bed over the next few days and again at lunch. I used to be a perfectionist about wrapping, but not anymore. I am still insisting that W's presents are wrapped in paper, not bags. H did watch me wrap the classmate and teacher gifts (in bags)and kindly loaded them in a big box to carry to school tomorrow. I'm really not complaining because he does all of the cooking!
We travel for Christmas, so we both scramble get everything wrapped when we get to our destination. I like wrapping presents, though, and would prefer to do it myself while he entertains L.
I come up with the gift ideas, buy the gifts, wrap the gifts. Half the time, my H is just as surprised by what's inside a box as the recipient is. I also do all the decorating, any cooking, etc. I bring Christmas.
I also think of and make/buy everything for his side. His sister recently told me how thankful they are that I came along since he never participated before and it was hurtful that there was no reciprocation.
I do everything but my presents-- DH takes care of that. I don't enjoy wrapping-- it was one of the motivating factors of our downsizing the gift giving this year :-)
Post by musiclover on Dec 18, 2014 17:57:48 GMT -5
Up until now DH and I have had a wrapping night together when we'd watch a Christmas movie and wrap all the gifts together, it was fun!! This year we can't anymore because Adam is up till 10:30pm on average and we can not wait that long to start wrapping. Sigh. So this year I'll wrap when DH takes them out to McDonalds for the play space. Boo.
I do almost all present wrapping. A few years I've essentially told DH, "You're helping me wrap presents," on Christmas Eve.
Growing up, my mom wrapped all the presents--my dad didn't even wrap hers. He got me or my sister to do it, and let me tell you, there's nothing more scarring than wrapping the lingerie your father is giving your mother.
All me, but I love doing it. I get help from this girl, but that usually means the tape is covered in fur. Perfectly adorned but slightly fuzzy packages
I freaking love your dog.
I do all the wrapping too and I love it. I watch A Muppet Christmas Carol and make H fetch me cookies and beverages. It is the best. I love admiring a mountain of wrapped gifts.
We usually do wrap them together but it's not really a pretty picture bc we wait until like 30 min before we're supposed to be somehwere and we both end up yelling at each other for waiting so long. Last year we wrapped all of Macy's presents on Christmas eve after she fell asleep and we were up past midnight doing that plus putting her cozy coupe together. I haven't wrapped a thing yet so this year is on track to be a repeat!
It's all me. He would wrap them if he were home. He enjoys wrapping. I'm a jerk and like the presents wrapped a certain way with perfect bows, though so I do it all.
This would only be jerky if you were making him wrap it the way you want. And I wouldn't use the term jerky if you were, more like controlling. :0)
We actually do it together. I normally make him do all the odd shaped presents. We spend a night or two doing it after the girls are in bed.
He is probably going to have to go over to his parents house sometime in the next week to put together the kitchen we got for them (an upgrade of the one we have had for a couple years now) and the barbie dreamhouse. I actually don't envy him of that job. That will probably take awhile!
I have heard that the dream house is an absolute nightmare. Glad you pawned it off on him. :0)
H wraps the gifts he gets for me and sometimes the ones he picks out for the girls. I do the rest. G is just starting to learn to wrap and will be helping me this year.
This. DH ends up doing 95% of it. I wrap DH's gifts, but that's about it.
Add me to this! He's great at wrapping, I am messy and terrible. Although with him working on the renos basically during all his free time I've done some wrapping. I'll leave the rest for him though. I am embarrassingly bad at it.