A woman can usually tell is her husband, boyfriend, or son wrapped a Christmas gift himself or had the store do it. Not anymore! A British store will specially wrap a gift badly, so it appears the buyer attempted to give it the personal touch.
Firebox.com is paying 20 of its male forklift truck drivers and warehouse assistants to wrap presents as quickly as possible, using ugly brown duct tape and very little care.And the $9 service, cheekily called CrapWrap, has attracted more than 500 customers since it launched last week.
Whether it's a book, DVD or something trickier such as a kitchen utensil, the team guarantees to make a mess of it.
Personally, I don't know any guy who would pay $9 for gift wrapping. He probably didn't spend that much on the gift! My last husband tended to hand me a gift wrapped in the bag from the store. The one before that would borrow money from me, then hand me some cash and tell me to go get something for myself. My life is filled with such romance!
(Thanks, Brother Bill!)
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Miss C.
Mine wrapping may not be perfect, but, at least I give it a shot!
And, I would never BORROW money from you.....
Eh, "My" wrapping..
(where's that dang *edit button)
What?! There truly is a sucker born every minute..
Hell, I'll wrap up the packages for $5.00 and do a really crappy job if that's what they want..
My dad has a version of this: He takes all the wrapping paper scraps and tapes them together on his presents. So you know its from him cause there's 4-5 different paper on each present.
It's a crap wrap but a little more inventive than brown paper.