How Do Women Wrap Gifts So Well?

It is the small hands!  I am older, and no more wiser in that department!

Or maybe it is a trick to get us out of wrapping?

Nahhh!  I do all the wrapping for my kids now!  And they look as bad as when I was 12 too!

I used to think that I had horrible wrapping skills....until I saw my husband try to gift wrap something.

Thank god for gift bags, right?!

I always wrap my own stuff so at least folks can tell right away from the crappy mess that covers the outside of whatever painfully clueless gift I bought them that at the very least I took the time to beat my head against the wall of ineptitude that is my gift wrap ability for them.

I always wrap my own stuff so at least folks can tell right away from the crappy mess that covers the outside

It's the thought that counts, Greywar.  Remember when you were a kid and you made christmas gifts for your mom out of toilet roll tubes and jigsaw puzzle pieces, and then you wrapped it really badly...but she still cried over it anyway?  It's sort of like that.

It's all about geometry.

Of course, advanced origami techniques come in handy.

-- B

It's the thought that counts, Greywar. Remember when you were a kid and you made christmas gifts for your mom out of toilet roll tubes and jigsaw puzzle pieces, and then you wrapped it really badly...but she still cried over it anyway? It's sort of like that

True Dharma, but wrapping skills dont hurt!  It is a female conspiracy!  They dont want us to know so they can always be the best!

It's all about geometry. Of course, advanced origami techniques come in handy.

Hey!  I aced geometry!  And there were no girls in the aces!  geometry my patootie!  It is just a conspiracy!  Women invented it to make man feel inferior!

(And it is working!)

Of course, advanced origami techniques come in handy.

b.s. I can make a paper kangaroo. I can make an owl. I can make a little swan that you can flap the wings. I can't wrap an ordinary square box for shit.

b.s. I can make a paper kangaroo. I can make an owl. I can make a little swan that you can flap the wings. I can't wrap an ordinary square box for shit.

Amen!  Neither can I!

It is a female conspiracy! They dont want us to know so they can always be the best!

Look, this might be the only thing (apart from birthing babies and it's physically impossible for y'all to do that) that we can do better than you.  Don't begrudge us that...please?

Look, this might be the only thing (apart from birthing babies and it's physically impossible for y'all to do that) that we can do better than you. Don't begrudge us that...please

grumble Grumble....grrrr....grrr...grumble.

yea and you dont want us to learn!   yea you may be right, but then try lifting heavy stuff! Or opening a pickle Jar!

Ha!

I've a grandfather who can hand-tie ribbons into bows so perfect,

We need to study your DNA.... perhaps you have the wrapping mutation?

yea you may be right, but then try lifting heavy stuff! Or opening a pickle Jar!

Exactly. What would we do without you men to so stuff like that?  What would you men do if you didn't have us chickies to wrap presents ?  The world would be full of un-moved furniture, unopened pickle jars and sloppily wrapped gifts is we didn't have each other. 

I see a beautiful future together for men who can't wrap and women who can....

I'm happy when the box is 100% covered.

       Box wrapping also requires things that men normally don't have in the house like Scotch Tape (plenty of duct tape but noooo can't use that...) and scissors! To trim the paper down for this box I ended up using a steak knife and hiding the mangled edge as the bottom (Would have used the exacto knife on a hard surface (like the concrete outside) but the linoleum floor just wouldn't have looked the same after).

Exactly. What would we do without you men to so stuff like that? What would you men do if you didn't have us chickies to wrap presents ? The world would be full of un-moved furniture, unopened pickle jars and sloppily wrapped gifts is we didn't have each other. I see a beautiful future together for men who can't wrap and women who can....

AHA!  It is a conspiracy!

Ok, not like we can fight it!

Give me your pickle jar, and I will let you wrap the presents! !

I'm happy when the box is 100% covered.

I take it that: #1 you are male, and #2, you are not married!  More power to you!

Box wrapping also requires things that men normally don't have in the house like Scotch Tape (plenty of duct tape but noooo can't use that...) and scissors! To trim the paper down for this box I ended up using a steak knife and hiding the mangled edge as the bottom (Would have used the exacto knife on a hard surface (like the concrete outside) but the linoleum floor just wouldn't have looked the same after).

yea, those stupid female rules!  Guess we will have to live with them!

(BTW, what is wrong with Duct tape????)

Ok TasT is gonna let the cat out of the bag....

Us guys don't do a good job wrapping presents because, Well, we have to let you girls have something to be good at and we don't want to do it anyway......

Don't worry with new technology for people in a hurry and apparently now for men who should not have to stress on wrapping things they now have the decorative gift bags for every occasion. They come in all sizes and colors. Although they can get to be fairly pricey for a bag that probably cost all of 8 or9 cents to make they are a wonderful lifesaver for many. Don't fear the gift bags are here!!! At any local department store, gift or card shop or in your closet put away. You know the one I got a few months ago from my husband for my Birthday. Have a Merry Christmas.

Don't worry with new technology for people in a hurry and apparently now for men who should not have to stress on wrapping things they now have the decorative gift bags for every occasion. They come in all sizes and colors. Although they can get to be fairly pricey for a bag that probably cost all of 8 or9 cents to make they are a wonderful lifesaver for many. Don't fear the gift bags are here!!! At any local department store, gift or card shop or in your closet put away. You know the one I got a few months ago from my husband for my Birthday. Have a Merry Christmas.

Just try to cover the entire gift and hope for the best.

As for the Wrapping mutated DNA.. Well, it might be in my genes, men do wear the pants in the family (ba da bom crassssh)

Ouch!  But how do we wrap?