@Steve7654 Both Salt Lake City newspapers gave up last month, and have switched to a weekly print, and more online content. The local county paper shut down entirely as well.
I always loved things wrapped in comics.
Our family started degenerated gift wrapping when presents started to get bigger, more awkward or otherwise hard to wrap. Paper bags, black plastic trash or lawn bags, sheets, comics (or even plain newspaper), you name it. (Toilet paper didn’t come into play until my kids upped the ante.) Usually, the grander and more precious the gift, the crappier the wrapping.
I remember as a kid, going downstairs with my siblings to open our Christmas presents. There would always be piles of beautifully wrapped boxes under the tree. But our eyes would be riveted on the one or two black lawn-bag-wrapped blobs with a bow stuck on them. “Wow! Who got that?!”
Meh, Home of Rock Bottom seems appropriate
Are they all bags of leftover pasta from a pasta drop?
@don
They’re bags from our local grocery store.
Perfect!
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When I was a kid, we were dirt poor; Christmas presents some years were wrapped in newspaper, especially the color comic section.
Anyone remember newspapers?
anyone?
@Steve7654 I picked up the local newspaper the other day.
@Steve7654 My parents did that too. Dad special wrap was the plastic store bag tied off and the name in marker.
@Steve7654 Both Salt Lake City newspapers gave up last month, and have switched to a weekly print, and more online content. The local county paper shut down entirely as well.
@blaineg @Steve7654
We still have two tolerable, but thin, dailies.
But, for how long?
I still wrap in comics! I even started to send packages with comics on them. Sometimes even wrapped in toilet paper.
@ibjungle @Steve7654
It’s all the rage now! “Eco-chic”!!!
Martha Stewart, no less.
Recycling boxes is something I grew up with. You should have seen my bride’s face on our first Christmas day when she unwrapped a Quicken box!
There was something else inside of it, of course.
For siblings, we would sometimes use the tiny present in a giant box gag as well. Or multiple, nested boxes. Annoyingly securely taped as well.
@blaineg With a bell or ball or something to make noise when shaken?
@speediedelivery Yes, sometimes a decoy noise maker.
I always loved things wrapped in comics.
Our family started degenerated gift wrapping when presents started to get bigger, more awkward or otherwise hard to wrap. Paper bags, black plastic trash or lawn bags, sheets, comics (or even plain newspaper), you name it. (Toilet paper didn’t come into play until my kids upped the ante.) Usually, the grander and more precious the gift, the crappier the wrapping.
I remember as a kid, going downstairs with my siblings to open our Christmas presents. There would always be piles of beautifully wrapped boxes under the tree. But our eyes would be riveted on the one or two black lawn-bag-wrapped blobs with a bow stuck on them. “Wow! Who got that?!”
@mehcuda67
Yeah, we’ve done big things like that too, which is why made it clear these were meh items. The kids liked them though, so I have that going for me.