Gift wrap
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Wrapping paper, 1 x
Too little paper? Not with this trick
18.12.2019
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You want to wrap a gift in shiny paper, but there's a gap in the centre? Too little paper or too much cardboard. Either way, it won't fit - unless you know this trick.
The presents are bought. At least partially. What a relief, but the next task is already waiting. All the expensive boxes need to be beautifully wrapped. I love doing this, wrapping presents is my meditation. As a child, I used to wrap everyday objects in paper at the parcel stations in department stores. Just for me, because it looks pretty.
What doesn't fit...
Despite this great passion for wrapping, I keep coming up against a problem: too little gift wrap. Either I cut too little due to a mixture of overconfidence and poor judgement or the end of the roll just doesn't give me enough. In the first case, I cut another piece to size or simply filled the hole with a thin strip of paper. In the second case, I bought a new roll in the shop. That costs time and material.
...will be made to fit
Surfing on reddit also takes time, but it's worth it. I came across something there that I wish I had known earlier. Namely, how to get a gift completely wrapped, even though it doesn't look like it at first. Don't wrap your gift crosswise or lengthwise, but diagonally. This trick is so simple that, looking back, I feel pretty stupid for never having thought of it.
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