I do wonder about him..........

P.A He then compounded it when he apologised for the fact that one of the parcels didn't have a gift tag on!

Yes, that made a HUGE difference!

For decoration?

FarNorth if it had been boss or ribbons, then yes, but blank gift tags?

BOWS!

Life will never be dull with Mr P . Enjoy your presents ?

It's traditional!

Once again you make me phoenix

..... or should that be Mr. P

There’s a lot of it about!
Christmas Eve traditional question ‘Do we have any wrapping paper?’
Every year around 6 pm Christmas Eve I vow that next year, inOctober, I’m giving DH a Christmas to do list and then sitting back.
But where’s the fun in that?
Happy Christmas to everyone

Heartening to read that others are living my life! Happy Christmas everyone !

I think all our many and varied Mr's are distantly related in some way or another.
Phoenix , enjoy him and his quirks.
My Mr Auntieflo, is a constant puzzle, BUT, I wouldn't change him for anything. (even though he used my best dressmaking scissors for cutting up wrapping paper)
Happy Christmas Mr & Mrs P.

Ha ha Phoenix

Before I came along my OH used to write on his wrapped presents with a big black marker pen! He knows now to use a nice tag ?

As you had offered him the gift tags, he could hardly refuse them! But, considerately, he refrained from writing on them so that they can be reused next year. What a wonderful husband: thrifty and recycling to save the planet.

A man with common sense! I use the fancy bags instead of wrapping paper and I never write on the tags so the recipient can recycle them.

My son hurried in last night with three expensive rolls of fancy wrapping paper. The word cellophane on the labels should have been a clue, but he's not old enough to know it. Yes, they were all transparent (though decorated with stripes.

My husband produces beautifully wrapped parcels whilst mine look like they have been through the mangle ( remember them )

Ah Phoenix, you forgot to give him the pen!

Lol!
DH is really good at wrapping, but I don’t think I am getting anything, as he gave me a really expensive birthday present earlier this month. Am still secretly hoping for a little something.....

Dare I say? He's a bloke! His brain is wired differently. At least you can recycle them for next year.

We do not give each other Christmas presents, so you are one up on me. In 50 years of marriage DH has never bought a Christmas Present, Cards, Tags or wrapping paper. He does not have a clue what anyone has received from us. He does write out the cards from a list that I provide.

He also clears up after Christmas Dinner, I guess that is a bonus.

Oh dear I did this last year after wrapping the GGC presents thinking tags would be another drawn-out process.
Thinking I knew whose belonged to who after they were all done by the " feel " of each one, when it came to handing them out it was a different story ! I had to scrape the wrapping with my nail to get an idea of what was inside.

All I could hear in the background were D and GD falling about laughing so I sat for another half hour last night writing out the tags. Feel better for it though.

DH this year for the first time ever didn't buy me a present! He explained two days ago that what he wanted to give me would be less than half the price if he bought it in Germany instead of here, so he hoped I wouldn't mind a home-made gift token.

I said I didn't mind at all, money is tight so buying a present here when it is cheaper on the other side of the border would be silly.

But, but, but: we were in Flensburg shopping ten days ago, when he saw the thing he wants to give me. He could just have asked me to meet him in another shop 10 minutes later. AND he was down in Flensburg checking our boat last Thursday.

So deep inside me I feel he could have nipped along to the shop that is a spit and a stone throw from the bus stop and bought my present.

I'm keeping it to myself, though, after all he has found me something I want.

Rant over, ladies.

Well not quite: I didn't even get a home made gift token!

And even more odd, the three candle holders from the Christmas decoration I had bought him had disappeared from the package when he opened it! I have just found them amongst the wrapping paper I didn't use!

I swear I didn't do it on purpose, as I had wrapped his presents before he told me he hadn't bought mine.

Well, the clues on the tags that I put on his presents went down well! Some of them he solved quite easily (he got the sock one immediately!) but "what colour was the river?" on a copy of the " Just So" stories had him flummoxed!

Well for the first time in 14 years i actually got a present, thrust under my nose unwrapped. Think yourselves lucky ladies that your presents are wrapped!