Maybe its a chick thing
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Joined: Dec 2002
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From: USA
My gift wrapping isn't usually the greatest, and usually involves A LOT of tape, but has gotten better over the years. I think part of it is we men just don't have an eye for the 'pretty things' that women seem to handle so well. Maybe it's their attention to the finer details or a desire to make it look good, whereas we are more practical and utilitarian in our approach to things, concentrating on the big issues and leaving the details to them.
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From: Murphysboro, IL
I'm pretty good at it, probably because I use to be a sheetmetal worker and am good at crisp tight bends, but I still think it is a chick thing cause I'm not that good.
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I have been wrapping gifts myself since as Long as I can remember.
It really isn't that difficult...definitely isn't a female thing.
It really isn't that difficult...definitely isn't a female thing.
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I can do all of it perfectly...except for judging how much paper I'm going to need. When I was a kid I'd never use enough and pieces of the box would show through. So I guess I overcompensate now because I always end up having to trim off a couple of inches of extra or folding (wadding) the extra up and trying to make it blend in the wrap. I have no idea how it happened...but my mother ended up wrapping most of the presents for me this year.
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I use duct tape every year. And I can cut a box to fit anything. But I "let" the wife do the fancy wrapping. She likes it, just uses me to help (actually just my finger, to hold ribbon while she ties it. That's my job, I'm the ribbon-holder-downer.)
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From: Ocala, Florida
C'mon, this is not rocket science. Some of the people here can do some very amazing things with their hands. This is child's play. You only have to make paper conform to a solid object while using tape as a bonding agent.
