What do you do when tou have more presents then wrapping paper??

Answer 1

Find a 24 hour store to go buy more wrapping paper. Good luck.

Answer 2

What fabric do yo have that you could cut into a circle? You could tie ribbon or yarn around it.

Comic strips were popular when I was younger. I still use it in a pinch.

Paper grocery bags turned inside out.

Paper bags turned inside out and take somethign and stamp, paint or doodle on them with markers. The good thing about using paper bags is you cannot see through them. they are heavy enough that even the snoopiest of children cannot see through them.

I have seen items wrapped in pillowases and towels and tied with yarn or sting instead of ribbon.

If you have a sewing buff, you could wrap it in fabric and tie it with some bias tape trim or braid or elastic.

Hope this helps. If all else fails, I believe Fred Meyer's is open late as well as most larger grocery stores (or at least in Oregon) and you can purcahse some more wrapping paper or maybe you can get some paper bags there if nothing else.

Merry Christmas!

Answer 3

Wrap some in plain paper, even sacks turned plain side out. I can always rubber-stamp designs if I'm in the mood.

Set some presents aside to be given at later dates ... it's still 12 days to Epiphany, celebration of the arrival of Magi. The briefest form is to salvage wrappings from Christmas eve or Christmas morning and from Christmas morning for later in the day.

Check the mailbox for in-coming gifts and re-use wrappings from them.

Wrap with bandanas or other fabric.

I've had neighbors come to me when they were short of wrapping paper, so I guess appealing to neighbors is also an alternative.

Answer 4

I have used the last bit of paper to cut out the designs and spread them across white paper. (It was sinterklaas paper, different festival but also having paper dedicated for the occasion.)

For Christmas you can also decorate any plain paper with Christmas motifs, ribbon in Christmas colours or even sticky tape in the colours associated with Christmas.

If you are really out of paper to wrap, think creative, old textiles might be useful, boxes of any kind, (turn them inside out if printed in an annoying way.)
Or just make tokens and hide the presents in the house (while the others gather round the tree to unpack.)

Even a sock hanging somewhere can be used in the American tradition, as long as it looks like a Christmas stocking.

Answer 5

Do you happen to have last Sunday's funnies left? It was a fad in the 70s (here in the US, anyway) to use the comics pages as wrapping paper. The Sunday ones are best, as they are in color, but even the black-&-white ones would work with a pretty ribbon. Also with a pretty ribbon, aluminum foil makes really shiny presents!

Answer 6

you must have a lot of presents. you could buy more wrapping paper, buy the stores are closed & will not open until after Christmas. maybe you could ask some of your neighbors!

Answer 7

i would suggest that you get more wrapping paper before stores close, if they are closed then try using paper bags, the used or old newspaper or you can get plain printing paper and draw christmas symbols on it like a tree, bows etc.

Answer 8

I use foil or the comics from the Sunday paper.

Answer 9

I have used fabric in a pinch. Once even pretty pillowcases.

Answer 10

newspaper?