What's The Next Step Down From A Napkin
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<div class="IPBDescription">Looking For Creativity.</div>A few years back I inadvertently started a new game/tradition between my sister and I.
Whenever we get each other a Christmas/Birthday gift, we wrap it in odd ways.
For example, last year I wrapped her birthday gift <b>entirely</b> in <a href="http://www.themovecrew.co.uk/brown_parcel_tape.jpg" target="_blank">parcel tape</a>. It took her 20 minutes and a pair of industrial-strength scissors to open it.
The same year my gift from her was wrapped in brown parcel paper, complete with string bow.
(I also accidentally wrapped my mothers' gift in "Happy Birthday!" paper, inspired by the superb Demitri Martin, I wrote "Jesus" under it.)
It doesn't sound like much but to innocent bystanders we look very weird and very cheap. But the game is well under-way and both of us refuse to return to normal shiny/festive wrapping paper for the other. That would mean losing.
My sister has just been to visit and dropped off this:
<img src="http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/5171/birthdayxx.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />
That's right, my gift (Uncharted 2 for the PlayStation3) is wrapped in a napkin with a smiley face drawn on it.
I now have to plan ahead to Christmas and decide what to wrap her present in that's one step below a napkin.
I'm thinking either a toilet roll (complete with cardboard tube attached) or clingfilm (I don't know what the American's call it).
(But does it still count as "wrapped" if you can see what's inside?)
Here is a picture of clingfilm for you non-Euro's.
<img src="http://georgetteculley.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/cling-film.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />
And here's a picture of a car that's been cling'd (appeared on Google Image Search when I was getting that previous picture.)
<img src="http://www.thismakesmelaugh.com/Photos/Cars/large/Cling_film_your_car_TODAY__guaranteed_to_stay_fresh_for_up_to_21_days_428.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />
Suggestions welcome!
Whenever we get each other a Christmas/Birthday gift, we wrap it in odd ways.
For example, last year I wrapped her birthday gift <b>entirely</b> in <a href="http://www.themovecrew.co.uk/brown_parcel_tape.jpg" target="_blank">parcel tape</a>. It took her 20 minutes and a pair of industrial-strength scissors to open it.
The same year my gift from her was wrapped in brown parcel paper, complete with string bow.
(I also accidentally wrapped my mothers' gift in "Happy Birthday!" paper, inspired by the superb Demitri Martin, I wrote "Jesus" under it.)
It doesn't sound like much but to innocent bystanders we look very weird and very cheap. But the game is well under-way and both of us refuse to return to normal shiny/festive wrapping paper for the other. That would mean losing.
My sister has just been to visit and dropped off this:
<img src="http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/5171/birthdayxx.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />
That's right, my gift (Uncharted 2 for the PlayStation3) is wrapped in a napkin with a smiley face drawn on it.
I now have to plan ahead to Christmas and decide what to wrap her present in that's one step below a napkin.
I'm thinking either a toilet roll (complete with cardboard tube attached) or clingfilm (I don't know what the American's call it).
(But does it still count as "wrapped" if you can see what's inside?)
Here is a picture of clingfilm for you non-Euro's.
<img src="http://georgetteculley.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/cling-film.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />
And here's a picture of a car that's been cling'd (appeared on Google Image Search when I was getting that previous picture.)
<img src="http://www.thismakesmelaugh.com/Photos/Cars/large/Cling_film_your_car_TODAY__guaranteed_to_stay_fresh_for_up_to_21_days_428.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />
Suggestions welcome!
Comments
grocery bags
if it's a video game, maybe the case for a different video game? (or an otherwise empty CD spindle)
Also, my sister once sent my dad a fathers day card which was actually a 5th birthday card which had previously said "Guess who's five?" with "five" tippexed out and "Dad" written on in pencil. There were plenty of fathers day cards, she just liked that one better.
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On second thought, if you really want something that's a step <i>down</i> from a napkin, how about a burger / sandwich wrapper, or other piece of repurposed rubbish?
Buy a couple of packs of blutack and just cover the gift in a layer about 2cm thick.
Other than toilet paper or clingfilm, I can't think of anything that is a step "down" from a napkin.
Maybe wrap it up in clingfilm, then use a black marker and go to town on it? Or just use a black bin bag.
--Scythe--
And once she opens the outer jelly-shell and removes the wrapping make sure that there is another layer of jelly, covering the actual present.
Repeat as needed.
Also make sure that the actual present inside the multi jelly-wrapping shell is:
Jelly-Powder.
Too much work.
Spray paint!
I like this, but with a bible. Perhaps not if seriously religious.
Otherwise, dig it down outside the victims house or cut off the top grass layer and wrap it in with strings, holding it together.
I like this one.
that's fairly damn good.
The phone book idea is funny, but instead of wrapping the phone book, super glue all the edges together so you have to cut into the book. I might have to do that one this year haha.
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This one requires a shop, so I really like it
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lets start with what you are getting her
Or you can do actually metal box in HUEG cardboard box with packing foam
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lets start with what you are getting her
Or you can do actually metal box in HUEG cardboard box with packing foam
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I don't know what I'm getting her just yet but I'll report back promptly when I do.
At the moment I like the leaves idea. The other ideas are good but I'm not capable of welding/crafting :-P
Pop her present in a used, fading and worn sports sock. Takes two seconds, speaks volumes.
Edit: put loads of leaves in the sock like packing foam. Because you care.
Throw it at her and scream "MERRY ###### CHRISTMAS" and then run out of the house.
Also, that ended up a little darker than intended, and now I feel bad.
At the moment I like the leaves idea. The other ideas are good but I'm not capable of welding/crafting :-P<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Man up! Tin sheeting is cheap and can be bent with your bare hands even if you're a girly woman man. Hit it with a hammer until it's vaguely cubic, drill holes and pop some rivets in. Dead simple.
--Scythe--