What a load of wrap
Filed under: MiscellaneousWrapping your own presents.
Come on people; I know you can do it.
It has to be one of the most simplest tasks that a person could do. So I don’t understand why more people don’t do it themselves. It doesn’t require a degree to figure out, and you don’t need the top of the market equipment. It’s literally wrapping paper, cello tape, scissors and common sense. Perhaps a stick on ribbon if your feeling particularly arty and that’s it.
Don’t even give me the argument of,
“…but my wrapping is crap! I’d rather get someone else do it so it looks pretty.”
It’s not good enough. It defeats the purpose of giving someone a gift that you have specially chosen for them.
The gift will mean so much more if it’s something that you have put time and effort into
I for one would love the gift more, if I knew that they had wrapped it themselves; even if it is wrapped like shit! The point is that they wrapped it. They didn’t get their mother to do it for them; or worse some anonymous shop assistant.
I work in a shop so I know how many of you do it and it pisses me off. People leave buying gifts till the last minute and then rush around buying something they think “will do”. Then they get other people to wrap it up for them!
It shows a distinct lack of organisational skills and spectacular proof of laziness.
Now I understand sometimes it can’t be helped: someone will drop a birthday bombshell on you two hours before your suppose to meet them. What are you going to do? You are miles away from home, you’ve got bags of shopping hanging off your arms and you haven’t even had lunch yet.
Then and only then is is acceptable for you to get someone else to wrap it; unless of course you don’t have arms in which case I’ll make an exception for that too.
Otherwise please wrap your own presents, you only have to do it a couple of times a year anyway.
So don’t be so fucking lazy
