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).