[QUOTE=kwk;33851958]Guys, he just wants to save money. He's re-using the paper so he can wrap more people's gifts and give them out.
It's an asshole thing to say that he's bad for doing this. He has no money to afford more packaging, but yet, he still wants to give out his gifts and satisfy his friends and family.[/QUOTE]
His family must be full of jerks if they still want presents even though he is in a tough spot financially.
yo, op, you're gonna have so many boxes after enough people read this thread that you won't have to worry about asking for them back from your giftees
Honestly I don't think very many of your family members will care a whole lot if you don't wrap your presents or put them in a bag. There may be a few of them who find the wrapping paper necessary, but most caring family members shouldn't mind that much. If anything it'd be better not to use wrapping paper or a bag at all than to use it then demand it back. That's just my way of seeing it though.
You see, what you really gotta do to save money on wrapping is that you need a good knife, preferrably one that's really sharp. Got that? Good. Now, you sneak over to the person who's gift you want to wrap's house (in the dead of night), and then what you gotta do is you have to skin that person alive, okay?
Now, you may be wondering "What does this have to do with gift wrapping Chilblain?" Well here's the genius part, after you skin the person you go back to your house and [B]wrap the gift in their skin and deliver it to them.[/B] Not only did you not spend a cent on wrapping paper, but they'll be so happy to get their skin back it will be like two gifts in one!
[sp]And if they aren't moved by your gift (or anything else), you can take the gift back and pawn it off! It's genius![/sp]
It really costs that much that you need to ask for it back? Christmas is once a year, you must be cheap as fuck
Usually when I get a gift in a bag, I put the bag aside and don't even notice if someone takes it. Pretend you're cleaning up after the person and if they ask for it back punch them in the dick
Lol, wut.
Biggest cheapskate ever?
Since when is wrapping paper so expensive that the ability to reuse it is going to determine how pricey the gift can be?!
What gifts do you handout? Toiletpaper and staples?!
[QUOTE=Christy;33850121]lol...You guys care more about keeping packaging than I do![/QUOTE]
That is pretty ironic
The thing is, you can get like 12 metres of christmas gift wrap for $4 or so
Are you really so cripplingly poor that you'd rather have the section of paper it took to wrap someone's gift back, so you could spend like 50c extra on the gift itself? The logic is terrible, and anyone would think you were joking.
Plus, do you warn the other person to painstakingly unwrap their present without damaging the paper when you give it to them? Because most people tear open presents, that being part of the enjoyment. No one wants to KEEP the wrapping.
i got 15 metres of wrapping paper for about $7/£5
hardly expensive
Suprised theres not been a covetous jew not doing christmas thing mentioned yet.
I bought 12 yards of brown paper for 20p and some string to wrap my presents. People think it looks classy or whatever.
[editline]23rd December 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=MakoSkyDub;33858560]Plus, do you warn the other person to painstakingly unwrap their present without damaging the paper when you give it to them? Because most people tear open presents, that being part of the enjoyment. No one wants to KEEP the wrapping.[/QUOTE]
My grandad would always unwrap presents as carefully as possible. Not to keep the paper but because he said it was part of the thought that goes into presents.
Paper = NO
Bags and Boxes = YES
Come on guys, I'm not that cheap.
My family does this, but I don't mind it much neither does anyone else. We've all been there, so asking for boxes or bags back isn't much of a deal. Usually my mom folds up bags and stuff and passes them out to people who want them at the end of the party.
[QUOTE=Christy;33863988]Paper = NO
Bags and Boxes = YES
Come on guys, I'm not that cheap.[/QUOTE]
There is nothing wrong with wrapping a gift in paper.
You're worried about looking cheap and thrifty by using paper, but will ask for the packaging back regardless? Are you intentionally contradicting yourself, or are you just stupid?
OP confirmed for Jew.
[QUOTE=Chief343;33866111]OP confirmed for Jew.[/QUOTE]
And that is coming from a [b]BR[/b]
That should tell you something
[QUOTE=Symmetry;33866074]There is nothing wrong with wrapping a gift in paper.
You're worried about looking cheap and thrifty by using paper, but will ask for the packaging back regardless? Are you intentionally contradicting yourself, or are you just stupid?[/QUOTE]
I meant my reuse policy doesn't apply to paper. If something is easily wrapped in paper I'll do that but I like putting together a selection of things for people so using boxes and bags make the most sense.
Just use wrapping paper. It lasts for years.
i wrap my gifts in notebook paper from highschool and people think it's "cool and unique"
for me it's a convenient way of getting rid of trash
our family often reuses packaging if it doesn't get utterly destroyed, it isn't that big a deal
[QUOTE=Agent Cobra;33868147]our family often reuses packaging if it doesn't get utterly destroyed, it isn't that big a deal[/QUOTE]
But he's asking for it back. If he nonchalantly took the bag/box back on his way out I don't imagine anyone would care, but this is kind of a dick move.
You give someone a present, they excitingly open it, then "HEY, CAN I HAVE THE BOX/BAG BACK NOW?". It pretty much ruins it on principle.
[QUOTE=Christy;33863988]Paper = NO
Bags and Boxes = YES
Come on guys, I'm not that cheap.[/QUOTE]
There's no difference between the two of them.
wait so you don't care about wrapping paper but the boxes and bags? Is that it?
Why don't you just do what I do and put the presents in empty food boxes instead of spending money on gift boxes?
then on christmas they open their gift and go "who the fuck bought me chicken nuggets?"
pretty enjoyable if you ask me.
[QUOTE=hula whoop;33869142]wait so you don't care about wrapping paper but the boxes and bags? Is that it?
Why don't you just do what I do and put the presents in empty food boxes instead of spending money on gift boxes?
then on christmas they open their gift and go "who the fuck bought me chicken nuggets?"
pretty enjoyable if you ask me.[/QUOTE]
i'd like some chicken nuggets
[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;33868417]But he's asking for it back. If he nonchalantly took the bag/box back on his way out I don't imagine anyone would care, but this is kind of a dick move.
You give someone a present, they excitingly open it, then "HEY, CAN I HAVE THE BOX/BAG BACK NOW?". It pretty much ruins it on principle.[/QUOTE]
ahh right, that makes sense
Lovely froggy wrapping paper. l can use that again.
I couldn't find the video showing that quote so here is a similar one..
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEgHpvcg0o8[/media]
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