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So, for wrapping paper for the Christmas gifts, I follow a tradition my father started many years ago. He gave me a Weller soldering gun in a seed corn sack. I figure the wrap should not be more valuable than the gift. I have stepped it up a bit. Oat seed sacks are mostly plain brown, and not so flashy. If I go all out, I might put a bow on. 
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Gifts inoculated with Captan fungicide residue.
A family tradition.
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Richard, You don't have to wrap my gift, but if you insist, put it in a Cabela's rifle case -- any size will do. 
"Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life." (Prov 4:23)
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Boy Keith, I'd love to, but you know all about the cross border laws!
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I have actually gotten to the point where I kind of enjoy wrapping presents - as long as they will fit into one of the boxes that I have stashed away. I always pick up wrapping paper after Christmas very cheaply and store it in tubs in the rafters of the garage. Being the only marginal 'fire member that I am, I enjoy the trapping of Christmas - the lights, the decorations, the buying, wrapping, and opening of presents.
Not a real member - just an ordinary guy who appreciates being able to hang around and say something once in awhile.
Happily Trapped In the Past (Thanks, Joe)
Not only a less than minimally educated person, but stupid and out of touch as well.
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I don’t mind wrapping, it doesn’t have to be perfect like the Wifey thinks it does! She is an engineer, so she probably has a slide rule in there when she is wrapping cshit.
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I've been know to deliver gifts in the plastic/paper bags from the stores in which they were purchased. I have learned to take the receipt out.....
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When my daughter gave me a canoe paddle wrapped in newspaper, it warn't hard to guess it.
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The colored comic pages from the newspaper work great, especially for the large presents that you don't want to waste the good wrapping paper on.
Don't believe everything you think.
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The colored comic pages from the newspaper work great, especially for the large presents that you don't want to waste the good wrapping paper on. +1 Been doing that for years. Becoming a tradition here. Don’t see the point of buying special paper to tear it up.
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
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American by birth; Alaskan by choice.
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I did some of the comic page wrap. We take no paper now.
It's quick to bag the gift, and staple it shut.
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o
"May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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