Comments on: How to Wrap a Present in a Unique Way

on 6/8/2009 great tips and suggestions for wrapping great gifts!5*

on 6/8/2009 I love these ideas and try to come up with fun ways to wrap things. Thanks.

on 5/17/2009 Interesting ideas may try them out in the future.

on 4/26/2009 interesting ideas! I hope I get to try some of them some time.

on 2/9/2009 I'm a great gift wrap fan but I keep worrying about the enviromental concerns. I might have an idea to get around this but I need your opinion so I launched a survey, thanks in advance for your efforts! http://www.surveygizmo.com/s/99989/modernfuroshiki

on 1/2/2009 Great article!

on 12/15/2008 Alright Alexanderlouis on 9.13.07 some people are more creative than others - it's the thought that counts anyways your missing the point! Like you weren't sucking up to this girl when you went out of your way to make a row boat b/c she's a rower. Hypocrite!

on 8/8/2006 Take the sealed or sex-skills section out of a magazine, like Cosmopolitan, and sticky tape the edges of the pages together until you have a large enough piece to wrap your gift. This makes very interesting and funny wrapping paper. Best used whenever you want to get a laugh.

on 6/30/2006 You can use off-white handmade paper and cover your gift with it. Now take another color, say deep red, as big as the base of the gift and burn the edges slightly with a candle. Stick this paper on your off-white base. It gives a nice earthy effect to the wrapping.

on 3/15/2006 A wonderful idea for wrapping wedding shower favors, gifts to the bridal party, small anniversary presents, etc. Try using a lace doily - just place it underneath the present and pull the edges up and over your gift. Cinch it at the top with a bow or a thin strip of lace and just tie it off. The person receiving your gift has 'wrapping' that they can keep and use in their home!

on 1/26/2006 I did this one year for all my exchange gifts and it was a big hit. I used plain brown paper bags as the wrapping paper. Then sisal string or twine as ribbon. I tied a simple bow and inserted dried flowers, twigs, stems of dogwood, etc. It had a very rustic look. People made comments about how they looked like presents would have been wrapped in the 1800's, before every company on earth was making wrapping paper.

on 1/24/2006 1. Wrap a gift normally, then completely cover it with a wide roll of clear tape, duct tape also works, but not masking because this ripes to easily, try to make it so they can't get a seam to open the present.
2. Get a huge box, like a refrigerator box, then put a gift card inside, or for even more fun, put a clue inside, this will lead the receiver, to another clue, then another and then finally to the gift.
3. If you know someone who loves to read, then give them a book wrapped in photocopied pages of their favorite book.
4. Make a gift basket with a theme, like spa basket, or movie night basket, include a DVD or two, Sodas, Candy, Popcorn in a tub, (the kind that comes in a tub with the popcorn on the bottom.) and a gift card to a local Blockbuster or other movie store.
5. Double wrap gifts, and put a "clue" to whats inside. Like if you are giving a camera, put a memory card on the outside, or if you are giving a book, you can put a wooden or home-woven book mark on the outside.

on 1/5/2006 All those little boxes you get with items in it can be fun. You need a large box and a multitude of little boxes. Balls of newspaper nd tissue paper.

In each small box you want to put a gift, it can be anything. Gift cards, dollar bills, notes, etc. Wrap each one. No bows, ribbons are OK. Breakable items should be padded in the small boxes.
It is also fun is to have one container filled with nuts or bolts so that it rattles for all those shakers.

Decorate the large box. I have found the easiest is to use glue, and a old paintbrush, just dip in Elmer's glue or other white glue then use glitter. Dry between colors if you use more than one color glitter.

Put a layer of balled newspaper in the box, and then place a wrapped smaller box inside. Add more wads of newspaper, and another package, repeat till you have it distributed. Seal the big box, add a bow, or tie with string yarn.

on 1/5/2006 I've at times been stuck with a lack of wrapping paper. But an abundance of odds and ends. Scraps of ribbon, bows, and lots of paper sacks.

Everyone has foil in the house. (if you don't go to a discount store and buy cheap stuff 50 cents to a dollar a roll). Take your paper bags apart, measure and figure out the amount you will need for the package you are wrapping. On the back side of the paper sack, take either the pattern cutters and punch various holes in the area that will be centered over the top of the package or trace patterns and then cut them out carefully. Get a length and width of foil and tape it to the top of the box. Wrap in your paper bag and you have decorative and cheap wrapping.

You can also use different foils, or cloth, or tissue paper same as the foil if you like.

If you have a gentle touch, you can use this on different bags. Take some very fine grit sandpaper, and lightly rough up the paper bag, this takes a bit of practice but you can give it the look of faux suede. This works on virtually any type of paper bag.

on 12/9/2005 I just randomly thought of using these one year and it was so much fun for me and everyone else. Save all of the boxes such as "Lucky Charms", "Stouffer's Stuffing", Little Debbie's "Swiss Cake Roll" boxes and glue them shut with your gift inside. This made every one laugh because it looked like a grocery shopping list under the Christmas tree, It was inexpensive wrapping, and it eliminated the guessing game of what it was inside.