Wrapping your presents
on February 26, 2021 at 1:01 amChapter: Tales Told out of School
Location: Joyce and Walky's apartment
Looks like we’re creeping up on Christmas again. Joyce and Walky!‘s last Christmas, actually! This is from 2009, and Dumbing of Age drops in 2010 before another December comes around.
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My husband’s always obvious bc they’re the stack of gifts that are all the same wrapping paper, despite the fact we have like FORTY DESIGNS
My parents use only a single paper for each person. It varies each year, but once you’ve found one present with your name on it, you can immediately identify all your other presents as they will be in exactly the same paper with no variation or crossover with others.
My family all use Sunday comics pages from the previous year as wrapping paper. And we all try to keep the paper from getting shredded, because we try and pick appropriate comics for the recipient.
I mean that’s fine and all, we sometimes do the same for his brother’s family (wife and kid LOVE owls, so owl paper), but it’s a little less fun on, say, my birthday when I get four or five presents and they’re ALL uniform wrapping
and we haven’t had bday parties in EVER so this is basically “I was too lazy to get out more than the first roll I touched”
I mean I don’t know about your husband, but that kind of consistency greatly appeals to me. I really like having a wrapping paper that’s strongly associated with me, to the extent that when I find one that I really like, I buy enough to last me years.
I always like to pick one wrapping paper type and use it for everyone’s gifts, so I can relate to your husband.
I generally code which gifts are whose by the paper. They always come out a little mangled, but I get the hang of it by the last one.
The fun part is coming up with confusing ways to package things. For example, I once gave someone an iTunes gift card taped to a Mitch Miller LP, and another box was much too big for its gift so I stuck a weight in one corner so 75% of it could hang off the edge of a table without it falling off.
Man, all of you people put way more into wrapping paper than I ever have. I’ve done my best to convince people not to waste time or money on wrapping my stuff in the first place, I don’t notice or care what you’ve wrapped the present in.
Check the card to see who it’s from, tear the trash off, see what the gift is. Simple and easy. And everyone gets their gifts in bags from me.
Originally Posted:
December 19th, 2009
And by my (imperfect) count, we have about 54 more comics to go, not counting the whole wedding saga (which I believe was subscription only).
So let’s say we have about….
11 more weeks of comics?
Those hands!
He totally looks like a two-fingered Lobster Boy in this strip.
Clearly he is working on his Clamps cosplay.
This strip is a bit confusing because the fact that Walky’s presents are recognizable is already established in panel 2, so when it comes again in panel 3 as the punchline, I wasn’t sure I had understood it correctly.
He’s saying he doesn’t want Joyce to know who he got but the fact that his wrapping is obvious means she just needs to look at the tag to know who he got.
That or it’s the world’s worst Secret Santa where they get specific people gifts but don’t label the gifts to know whose is whose 🤔
This is why I only bag my gifts.