Titaw Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 I inherited it from my mother who wrapped 10 consecutively smaller boxes inside one another with the gift in the last box, kinda like the Russian Nesting Dolls. This year I used box that went to a bowl that my wife and I got for our wedding and cut the styrofoam so Rockband 2 for the Wii could fit in it (just the game). Now the styrofoam top fits so it appears as if nothing has been done to it. I then placed a note on the styrofoam that reads; "This is not your present! You must follow the clues to find your present!" Then I list a clue. Well The clues will take my son to 10 different places all around the house until the final clue leads him to HIS CLOSET (he never uses it) where the entire kit for Rockband lies (wrapped of course)!!!! This was the one gift he wanted and didn't want anything else. Now I am going to have just as much fun watching him hunt for the clues all around the house than we are going to have playing it? Anyone else get creative when giving Christmas gifts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renaissance Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 My trademark is tape. Lots and lots of tape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeSellers45 Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 I always love wrapping stuff and giving joke gifts. This year for joke gifts, I am giving my two brothers a roll of toilet paper. My sister drives red Eclipse that has a tone of dents in it and we call it the dentyne, so I got her a pack of Dentyne Fire. A couple of years ago, I started to get creative wrapping presents. My dad worked for the phone company so we had an unlimited supply of electrical tape. I would take the present, wrap it in newspaper, and then cover the newspaper completely with electrical tape. I would do a couple of layers of that. My brothers copied me the following years, so we kept making minor changes. I would try to hide the end of the tape on the edge of the present where it isn't as noticeable. Then my older brother started putting the end of the tape under another part of the tape so you couldn't find the end. This past year, I started to put fake ends in plain site so they would think it would unwrap realluy easy, but that piece of tape would only be a couple of inches long. This has been the first Christmas in a couple of years that I haven't done that. but this year I put my brothers present, a DVD, in a bunch of boxes. I started with a Dunkin Donuts box, and I shortened it to be about the size of the DVD. I made another box out of the unused portion, and then got another one that I cut in half to make two more boxes. I then used pizza boxes two make about 3 or so more boxes, but it started getting tricky because I would have to make the lid taller and longer in order for the box to close. It took some time to make these boxes but it was fun. There is a layer of wrapping paper on each box, so he will have fun opening it. I got these kinds of ideas from my moms side of the family, because apparently my uncle would do this sort of thing to my mom when they were kids. A couple of years ago, he gave brother the kicker spring that he broke form my uncles Harley in a box layered in tape. That is where I got my idea for the tape layers from. I like your idea of having the clues throughout the house. I will have to try that sometime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Mike Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 I guess I'm just too lazy and I don't have kids. I stick to funny Xmas cards. But yours sounds like great fun, let us know how it goes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeanCollins Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 I hate wrapping gifts, so I just got my wife a car. No bow or silly ribbons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 Back in the day, way back when we still listend to LPs, I gave one as a gift to my sister, wrapping it with two other pieces of cardboard so it had a triangular shape. She had no idea what it was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingGibbs Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 When I gave my 1st wife her engagement ring I had it sealed in a can. When she opened the can it was packed with undies. She didn't see the ring box at the bottom at first, but when she did the look was priceless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdsknbill Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 About 5 years ago I bought my wife a three carat tennis bracelet. She was being a little ****y going into the holiday so I decided to get creative with the wrapping. I wrapped the bracelet in a small jewelry box, then took a larger box, put it inside, then got pieces of coal out of the fire place and buried the bracelet inside of the other box. She opened it and figured that she got coal for christmas, until she dug a little bit. It was great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titaw Posted December 22, 2008 Author Share Posted December 22, 2008 I like everyone's spirit. I think the fun of Christmas is to give but, it doesn't mean you can't make the person you have given to work a little for it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LD0506 Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 Love the idea Titaw, I do the same kind of thing when possible. Did this for a Bday present, not Xmas, but it was fun. One small wrapped box that held a single puzzle piece and a clue to the whereabouts of the next, etc., etc. After the scavenger hunt to find all the pieces (the last was a crucial one of course) the puzzle had to be put together properly which was a rebus that had to be solved for the location of the grand prize. The hunt was as fun as the gift. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BayouBrave86 Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 I've heard of using old cd cases as Christmas cards.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.