Christmas Wrapping, How Does Yours Get Done?

[Saphire]

DH and I have it down to a science now. We bring all the gift wrap/boxes/bows, etc. into the living room. We turn on a Christmas movie (tonight it was Holiday Affair, great story with Robert Mitchum and Janet Leigh). I do all the prep work...take price tags off, put in proper box with tissue, then it goes to DH. He wraps it (he is much better at this than I am) then gives it back to me. I put on bow and tag...voila! Then we start all over again, lol. We wrapped about 12 gifts tonight, and then put everything away. This will continue many nights until done. What is your wrapping routine?

 

[Hannathy]

I stay up till 4 am Christmas eve wrapping like a mad woman while everyone else sleeps!

 

[camreesmom]

I wish we could do it like you do! Our system involves me locking myself in our bedroom and watching a movie while I wrap and wrap and wrap and DH is in the other part of the house with the kids trying to keep them occupied and mostly to keep them from banging and banging on the bedroom door! We have 8 kids, grandma, my mom, dad, stepmom, DH's sister and cousins, my 4 sisters, 1 brother and all their kids so when I say I am wrapping for days, I'm not exaggerating! Needless to say, my least favorite part of the holiday is the gift wrapping.

 

[DaisyD]

I am the only one that wraps in this house! DH doesn't help except to handed the gifts out of the attic and carrying them into the family room. I pull everything down the week before Christmas and wrap everything in two nights. I then take everything back up to the attic and hide it again til Christmas eve when it comes back down again and under the tree while the kids are sleeping.

 

[Maryr1]

My DH has never ever helped out with wrapping. EVER. (We've been married 23 years). I used to get totally overwhelmed with it but a couple of years ago I made a deal with myself-when I bring it home, I wrap it,tag it and put a bow on it. Period-no exceptions. It actually works- We only have 1 child so I do 99% of my shopping for her on line, have it sent to my sisters (she lives a few miles away) and she brings it on Christmas Eve when she comes for dinner. We leave it in her car until DD8 is asleep and then under the tree it goes-no need to wrap,as it is all for her. OH, and by the way, since DH doesn't help, he is on his own for shopping for his family. And the wrapping....

 

[SwedishMeatball]

My husband and I lock the bedroom door on Christmas eve and go at it.

 

[DLBDS]

I usually wrap items while DD is at school. Usually in the livingroom watching tv. Then I take them upstairs to a locked spare bedroom. My DH doesn't help. You know the saying..."If ya want it done right, do it yourself." I have a rule that no more than two gifts can have the same wrapping paper. I look at the gifts under the tree as part of the holiday decorations and they have to be arranged 'just so'. (BTW, I used to babysit for a family down the street when I was a kid. They actually wrapped ALL of their gifts in brown paper. How depressing is THAT?!) I purchase all of my wrapping 'stuff' after the holidays for the discounts. By then, I know what I'm running low on and can restock. I also need to mention that I'm Santa Clause too. EVERY year my DH decides to pass out on the sofa after an evening of holiday celebratory drinking. I have to haul everything down the stairs (takes about 8 trips,in the dark...in case my DD comes out of her room), arrange it all under/around the tree and finally, take a picture. One year, I fell down the top portion of the stairs. Knocked out a spindle. When I landed, I stayed perfectly still as I just KNEW that I had woken them both up. Not even the spindle crashing to the floor stirred them. And in case you were wondering, no, I wasn't injured.

 

[Disney Doll]

My husband and I lock the bedroom door on Christmas eve and go at it.

But meanwhile, who does your wrapping??????

 

[Saphire]

I used to get totally overwhelmed with it but a couple of years ago I made a deal with myself-when I bring it home, I wrap it,tag it and put a bow on it. Period-no exceptions.

I do like this idea. I somehow cannot manage to be that organized. Maybe in another 20 years, though.

 

[LadyyRedd]

My husband and I lock the bedroom door on Christmas eve and go at it.

Where the heck is that tag fairy when you need one?

Kimya

 

[rie'smom]

My husband and I lock the bedroom door on Christmas eve and go at it.

This remind me of the time my friend and her husband were um getting to know each other intimately. Their son walked in and my friend told him, "Mommy and daddy are wrapping presents!" I've never figured out how to wrap presents in quite that way. I'm a slow learner.
My daughter is 12 now and into wrapping presents so next weekend she and I will have a wrap party.

 

[tigerdragon]

Except for the presents that DH buys me, I do it all. I like doing it, though. I was talking to my brother today and he told me that my SIL knew what she was getting for Christmas and started wrapping her own presents. I'm not sure what the point of wrapping your own presents is. He did make her stop and finished wrapping them himself.

 

[miss missy]

Same as your but I do it myself and DD helps with the rest. Def need a christmas movie AND must have eggnog and khalua Usually done in two big wrapping times.I usually do the bows when I put them under the tree tho.

 

[JennaTX]

We work the same way as the OP.

I cannot wrap pretty gifts, no how no way!

So I get everything together and DH wraps them.

 

[minkydog]

Well, since I can't do much of anything this year with my big red cast on my leg, I just sit in the floor and wrap to my hearts content. Thank goodness for online shopping!

 

[Laurabearz]

I too like a million different kinds of wrapping paper under the tree... I think I have close to 70 rolls, and I bought a few more rolls yesterday...

I do all the wrapping, late at night when the kids are alseep! ALSO I pre cut most of the blasted packaging... WHY DO WE NEED WIRE CUTTERS ON CHRISTMAS MORNING!!! Anything that is big and needs big time instructions to put together I put together and leave unwrapped and it's from Santa(santa' doesnt wrap his gifts... but mommy and daddy do)

 

[irishbosoxfan]

My husband and I lock the bedroom door on Christmas eve and go at it.

We do to but the presents don't get wrapped that way!

I do all the wrapping here! DH and I got into an argument the other night because I sat there for a good hour wrapping while he watched tv--He was like "All you had to do was ask" and my response "I shouldn't have to ask"
If it wasn't for me the kids would just end up picking out what they want from under the tree with no surprise because it wouldn't be wrapped.

 

[MUFFYCAT]

I usually take a day off and wrap all day while the kids are at school.
Other presents to fami;y members I wrap one night while watching
a Christmas movie.

we have a small family and I don't have many of those to do

 

[I Love Pluto]

The elves wrap everything. I believe in Santa.

 

[shortbun]

My husband and I lock the bedroom door on Christmas eve and go at it.

Exactly, who needs wrapped gifts?