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Things I am worse at than wrapping Christmas presents 17:39 - Dec 23 with 684 viewsGaryBannister86

Nothing. No-one can be as bad as me. Looks like a 4 year old was mucking around.




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Things I am worse at than wrapping Christmas presents on 17:41 - Dec 23 with 659 viewsHayesender

I'm alright if the thing I'm wrapping is square. Any deviation from that shape and I'm fooked.

Gift bags my friend

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Things I am worse at than wrapping Christmas presents on 17:45 - Dec 23 with 645 viewsloftboy

Must be a man thing, I’m useless as well. Still got my mrs presents in my wardrobe unwrapped as I can’t face doing it, will probably have a bash at it tomorrow some time.

Nourry out
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Things I am worse at than wrapping Christmas presents on 17:46 - Dec 23 with 635 viewsMaggsinho

Precur your sellotape, keep stuff in boxes they came in and don’t use too much wrapping paper all help I find.
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Things I am worse at than wrapping Christmas presents on 17:50 - Dec 23 with 605 viewsMalintabuk

Mrs MinT has bought the grandson (23) some shower stuff which as a fibre cloth thing ... and it comes in a snazzy basket thing...

So I stupidity got that one to wrap... after 6 goes, several sheets later.. and nearly half a roll of cellotape... it looks like the dog has had a 20 minute go at it...

So conceded defeat and Mrs MinT as taken over... get me to strip down a mark II escort gear box.. doodle.... but wrapping a non square .... you are having a laugh
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Things I am worse at than wrapping Christmas presents on 18:00 - Dec 23 with 579 viewsBoston

Just finished mine ... as we say stateside, it's a wrap.

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Things I am worse at than wrapping Christmas presents on 18:11 - Dec 23 with 561 viewsPlanetHonneywood

Vouchers. Problem free and fail safe down the years.

In relation to things I'm more useless at compared to wrapping: ironing tends to be a case of...that'll do. Parking...near enough, that'll do. Using cling film which goes...'FCUK IT!! Mrs PH.....!'

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Things I am worse at than wrapping Christmas presents on 18:53 - Dec 23 with 493 viewsR_from_afar

I'm rubbish at it too, Mrs R from Afar has banned me from wrapping presents apart from mine to her, she does all the others.

Many years ago, when I was young and foolish, as opposed to old and very foolish, I played a Christmas trick on my brother.

I had got him a small but valuable present, but I went to town with the wrapping and box (pause for cackling) .

I put his present in a grocery box, on top of a pile of dictionaries, then wrapped it all up as prettily as I could. The resulting package was huge and weighed a ton.

He was very entertained trying to guess what on earth the vast and weighty item was . Luckily, he did like the actual present.

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Things I am worse at than wrapping Christmas presents on 19:04 - Dec 23 with 469 viewsMick_S

I tend to get a lot of steps in wrapping presents. Same with making the bed. Best left to the experts.

Love,

Sexist Sid.

Did I ever mention that I was in Minder?

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Things I am worse at than wrapping Christmas presents on 19:04 - Dec 23 with 468 viewshubble

Things I am worse at than wrapping Christmas presents on 17:45 - Dec 23 by loftboy

Must be a man thing, I’m useless as well. Still got my mrs presents in my wardrobe unwrapped as I can’t face doing it, will probably have a bash at it tomorrow some time.


Can't be a man thing, as I am very good at wrapping presents... 😳

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Things I am worse at than wrapping Christmas presents on 19:05 - Dec 23 with 466 viewsbosh67

I hear you!

I make things, paint things, build things, restore things... Yet I'm totally defeated by wrapping paper and sellotape.

Never knowingly right.
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Things I am worse at than wrapping Christmas presents on 19:06 - Dec 23 with 460 viewsMick_S

Things I am worse at than wrapping Christmas presents on 19:04 - Dec 23 by hubble

Can't be a man thing, as I am very good at wrapping presents... 😳


I got my wife a coat for Christmas and wrapped it. Looks like an elephant- hope she’s not disappointed.

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Things I am worse at than wrapping Christmas presents on 19:16 - Dec 23 with 447 viewsRsole

Things I am worse at than wrapping Christmas presents on 19:06 - Dec 23 by Mick_S

I got my wife a coat for Christmas and wrapped it. Looks like an elephant- hope she’s not disappointed.


We just invite Eminem around for Xmas Eve and let him loose with Dre.

Those possessed by devils, try and keep them under control a bit, can't you ?

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Things I am worse at than wrapping Christmas presents on 19:42 - Dec 23 with 392 viewsBlackCrowe

I hear you brother. If that wasn't bad enough Mrs Crowe insists on stocking presents being wrapped too....is that a real thing....certainly didn't happen on my parents' watch.

I'm also terrible at setting up new tech electronics (eg. new TVs)...just don't have the patience.

Quite good at ironing though.

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Things I am worse at than wrapping Christmas presents on 20:16 - Dec 23 with 358 viewsTacticalR

Can it be done by AI?

Air hostess clique

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Things I am worse at than wrapping Christmas presents on 20:33 - Dec 23 with 319 viewscolinallcars

Things I am worse at than wrapping Christmas presents on 19:42 - Dec 23 by BlackCrowe

I hear you brother. If that wasn't bad enough Mrs Crowe insists on stocking presents being wrapped too....is that a real thing....certainly didn't happen on my parents' watch.

I'm also terrible at setting up new tech electronics (eg. new TVs)...just don't have the patience.

Quite good at ironing though.


I like ironing - it gives you something to think about while you're watching TV.
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Things I am worse at than wrapping Christmas presents on 20:52 - Dec 23 with 287 viewsDorse

I had a bugger of a job wrapping the kids' present last year. Still, it was worth it to see their faces when they unwrapped the puppy the next day.

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Things I am worse at than wrapping Christmas presents on 20:56 - Dec 23 with 279 viewsPindarus

Bought my wife a dress for Xmas. Terrified of cutting through it when I was wrapping it. Exhausted when I'd finished it and had to go and lie down for half an hour. I wonder if she'd like a voucher next year.
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Things I am worse at than wrapping Christmas presents on 03:21 - Dec 24 with 144 viewsPlanetHonneywood

Things I am worse at than wrapping Christmas presents on 20:56 - Dec 23 by Pindarus

Bought my wife a dress for Xmas. Terrified of cutting through it when I was wrapping it. Exhausted when I'd finished it and had to go and lie down for half an hour. I wonder if she'd like a voucher next year.


In my experience, the older and closer you are to a person, the more lead in time you need to 'groom' them (sorry to use such a base term) into natural acceptance.

So, get a couple of vouchers throughout the year when opportunity appears. For example, she mentions she wants to read a book. You go straight to Waterstones buy a voucher, then present it as, 'I must be getting old, as I just couldn't remember (don't say I forgot the title what ever you do), and I didn't want to spoil the surprise, so I got you a voucher.' A bit ambitious, but aim for Crimbo 2027, with a voucher for an 'experience' and voila, you're in!

Mrs PH's present this year, a scuba diving thing* (see, I just got the voucher, no real idea WTF it is). Bit pricey, but saved a packet on wrapping paper and sellotape. Thank me later**


* thinking about it, she might have groomed me there!
** voucher naturally.
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Things I am worse at than wrapping Christmas presents on 05:45 - Dec 24 with 98 viewsSydneyRs

The secret is to only buy from shops that include a wrapping service. Job done, and they actually know what they are doing, win win.
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Things I am worse at than wrapping Christmas presents on 06:33 - Dec 24 with 63 viewsPaddyhoops

Mrs paddy and I haven’t got each other presents for years. So not an issue for me.
She sorts out the daughter’s presents and in-laws.
On line hampers sort out the Irish across the water.
Can I wrap presents though ? Yes and back in the day was pretty decent.
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Things I am worse at than wrapping Christmas presents on 06:38 - Dec 24 with 59 viewsplasmahoop

Do you have a tape dispenser? I was bad at wrapping, and remember trying to badly wrap stuff getting hacked off continually losing the end of the tape. Absolute game changer, I'm fairly good at it now relatively speaking anyway
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Things I am worse at than wrapping Christmas presents on 08:18 - Dec 24 with 12 viewsnumptydumpty

Sellotape....

It confuses me !!!!!

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