...TIPS FOR MEN

This is the time of year when we think back to the very first Christmas,
when the Three Wise Men; Gaspar, Balthazar and Herb, went to see the
baby Jesus and, according to the Book of Matthew, "presented unto Him
gifts; gold, frankincense, and myrrh." These are simple words, but if
we analyze them carefully, we discover an important, yet often
overlooked, theological fact: There is no mention of wrapping paper.

If there had been wrapping paper, Matthew would have said so: "And lo,
the gifts were inside 600 square cubits of paper. And the paper was
festooned with pictures of Frosty the Snowman. And Joseph was going
to throweth it away, but Mary saideth unto him, she saideth, 'Holdeth it!
That is nice paper! Saveth it for next year!' And Joseph did rolleth
his eyeballs. And the baby Jesus was more interested in the paper than
the frankincense."

But these words do not appear in the Bible, which means that the very
first Christmas gifts were NOT wrapped. This is because the people
giving those gifts had two important characteristics: 1. They were wise.
2. They were men.

Men are not big gift wrappers. Men do not understand the point of
putting paper on a gift just so somebody else can tear it off. This is
not just my opinion: This is a scientific fact based on a statistical
survey of two guys I know.

One is Rob, who said the only time he ever wraps a gift is "if it's such
a poor gift that I don't want to be there when the person opens it."

The other is Gene, who told me he does wrap gifts, but as a matter of
principle never takes more than 15 seconds per gift. "No one ever had
to wonder which presents daddy wrapped at Christmas," Gene said.
"They were the ones that looked like enormous spitballs."

I also wrap gifts, but because of some defect in my motor skills, I can
never completely wrap them. I can take a gift the size of a deck of
cards and put it the exact center of a piece of wrapping paper the size
of a regulation volleyball court, but when I am done folding and
taping, you can still see a sector of the gift peeking out.
(Sometimes I camouflage this sector with a marking pen.)

If I had been an ancient Egyptian in the field of mummies, the lower
half of the Pharaoh's body would be covered only by Scotch tape.

On the other hand, if you give my wife a 12-inch square of wrapping
paper, she can wrap a C-130 cargo plane. My wife, like many women,
actually likes wrapping things. If she gives you a gift that requires
batteries, she wraps the batteries separately, which to me is very close
to being a symptom of mental illness. If it were possible, my wife
would wrap each individual volt.

My point is that gift-wrapping is one of those skills like having babies
that come more naturally to women than to men. That is why today I am
presenting:

GIFT-WRAPPING TIPS FOR MEN:

* Whenever possible, buy gifts that are already wrapped. If, when the
recipient opens the gift, neither one of you recognizes it, you can
claim that it's myrrh.

* The editors of Woman's Day magazine recently ran an item on how to
make your own wrapping paper by printing a design on it with an apple
sliced in half horizontally and dipped in a mixture of food coloring and
liquid starch. They must be smoking crack.

* If you're giving a hard-to-wrap gift, skip the wrapping paper! Just
put it inside a bag and stick one of those little adhesive bows on it.
This creates a festive visual effect that is sure to delight the lucky
recipient on Christmas morning:

YOUR WIFE: Why is there a Hefty trash bag under the tree?

YOU: It's a gift! See? It has a bow!

YOUR WIFE (peering into the trash bag): It's a leaf blower.

YOU: Gas-powered! Five horsepower!

YOUR WIFE: I want a divorce.

YOU: I also got you some myrrh.

In conclusion, remember that the important thing is not what you give,
or how you wrap it. The important thing, during this very special time
of year, is that you save the receipt.

~Male Author Unknown~

Wonder where I saw this at......

lol
Sadly, I am not one of those women who can beautifully wrap a gift complete with homemade bows. If I have to wrap, it winds up looking like a giant wad of paper, no matter what the gift is.

The perfect solution?
GIFT BAGS!!!
Stick the gift in, wad up some tissue paper on top, and you are good to go!

I'm very close to the woman described in the article. *shakes head* I try to never just tear into a gift without commenting on the wrapping because I know time and energy was spent making it look just right. However I do enjoy wathcing my dogs destroy their wrapped gifts and my young neice playing in the paper.

I wrapped my presents last night, and i must say. ech....... This was the first year my wife and I tackled baby toys.. The companies purposely put these things in weird boxes, and half boxes just to mess with us..... My wife says next year, I get to wrap them. Thats ok, as long as she doesnt mind our christmas tree setup to look like it was done by a 4yr old...

hehe

LOL bo....

Yea my wrapping skills suck as well, hence when I buy a gift/present, I make sure it's PRE wrapped

Christmas is the only time I wrap gifts. I like seeing my family tear them off. The rest of the year, I use gift bags.

I wrap them in very intresting ways... I pretty much use scrap paper that was left over from last year's christmas... heck left over paper from other holidays so you sometimes get some that says "Happy Birthday!" And there was baby shower paper one year.... parents enjoyed the mis-matched paper so much every holiday that came out they picked up a few rolls of it so end up getting Easter, Valentine, 4th July, Halloween so on and so forwarth... So it is not always just Christmas paper in my house haha!

We also like to dye Eggs on Christmas rather than easter, NO way them rabbits are going to steal my eggs... they are supecting we make them that holiday... they are so wrong! bwhaha!

-RMS Carpathia-

I use gift bags even during the holidays!!