Wrapping Christmas Gifts

I used to be a gift wrapper. 

I worked at Roth's Department Store on the courthouse square in Mt. Vernon during the holiday season.  My main job was gift-wrapper.  The hardest item I remember wrapping was an umbrella.  It was too long to fit on the width of the paper .  It seemed like I was wasting so much paper on that one gift.  It was fun, especially wrapping last minute gifts purchased by husbands for their wives the day before Christmas.

But now?  I really dislike wrapping Christmas presents. 

I always say I am going to start early and be finished early so it isn't so overwhelming.

That usually doesn't happen.  I can be seen the day  and night before we open gifts, still wrapping everything.  Gary will bring down bag after bag of purchases from the computer room and it seems never-ending.

Today we went to the Clinton Prairie Book Fair at Barnes and Noble.  Everyone in the family will receive at least one book under the tree.  Since B & N sells calendars too, there were a couple of those to wrap also.  Four bags of books/calendars plus a beginner train set made their way into the living room where I had set up the card table from my office complete with a roll of Christmas gift wrap, tape, scissors, a pen, a notepad, and the gift tags. 

And  by 10:00 p.m. I had finished all of that task.   There are more thing upstairs to wrap, but those will have to wait until after Thanksgiving.

The longer I sat at the table and cut paper, the sloppier the cuts became and the more the tape was placed askew.  I just don't like to do it!

Maybe if I were paid like I was at Roth's, it wouldn't be such a chore?