Gremlins MUST be real ...

[XmisterIS]

I had just the other day gone out and bought a roll of sticky tape with a dispenser, deliberately to avoid the fiasco of try to tear of bits of sellotape with my teeth while trying to hold the wrapping paper in place round the present and swearing at it as it all comes unravelled.

I sat down about an hour ago with a large pile of presents to be wrapped and the sticky tape dispenser was ... no where to be seen! Vanished in to thin air. 15 minutes of me searching for it and swearing (see above) but could I find it? Could I buggery ...

Anyway, I found a roll or really old tape that was a bloody nightmare, sticks to me, sticks to itself, sticks to anything except the wrapping paper!

After a lot of swearing (again, see above), I have now proudly produced a pile of presents that look like they have been wrapped by a chimpanzee.

And guess what happened just as I sat down at the PC? .... I found the brand new stick tape dispenser that I had bought.

Swearing? Oh yes ...

 

[DiddlyDodds]

I was thinking this morning as i wrapped the presents they next year i should get a dispenser for the roll of tape as i did the very same dance routine with the tape sticking to everything except the wrapping paper


Next year i am going to use tin foil ,, it wraps without the aid of sticky tape and can be re used on the christmas dinner later in the day

 

[guitarpete247]

We bought one of those dispensers that straps to your wrist and lets you take one length of tape at a time.
Used it last year and again a couple of weeks ago it's fantastic. Had to get some refills for it and I used it again a couple of days ago. I needed it agin today and it's nowhere to be found. Had to use ardinary tape. Finding the start is a pain. It splitting and coming off as a sliver of tape and trying to get it to full width again is a nightmare. Cutting enough lengths off and having to stick them to something you always stick one down so that you can't get it off so it can be used. Then you've got to find the start again.
GF's son has now gone to the pub and left his mother with her instructions on which presents she has to wrap for him and who they are for so she can write out the tags .
The dispenser we had was in the bag with the labels, spare tape and the ready made bows. They are all still there but no tape dispenser. He used it yesterday so we've got no chance of finding it before the New Year when he does his Annual room clearance .

 

[Night Train]

I have one of those industrial dispensers that uses 50mm wide rolls.
Exactly like this one.

 

[vernon]

I used adhesive circular patches around 1" diameter. Saves pi55ing about with tape which sticks to me, itself, the carpet and the work surface and by the time it reaches the wrapping paper, falls off it because all of the 'grab' has been deposited on me, the carpet and the work surface.

 

[Night Train]

When I was younger (and meaner) I used to carefully fold and crease the paper to get a perfect fit around a boxed present. I would then, instead of using sticky tape, seal all the folds and edges with Pritt Stick. Hours of fun watching people trying to rip my presents open!

 

[vernon]

When I was younger (and meaner) I used to carefully fold and crease the paper to get a perfect fit around a boxed present. I would then, instead of using sticky tape, seal all the folds and edges with Pritt Stick. Hours of fun watching people trying to rip my presents open!

Been there done that. it was a hoot watching the recipients looking for cellotape to remove.

 

[XmisterIS]

When I was younger (and meaner) I used to carefully fold and crease the paper to get a perfect fit around a boxed present. I would then, instead of using sticky tape, seal all the folds and edges with Pritt Stick. Hours of fun watching people trying to rip my presents open!

I think that would be best done with patterned paper carefully cut so that the pattern matches exactly! That would confuse the crap out of someone! Mind you, I have too many presents to do that will all of them.

 

[Saddle bum]

I have a wife what tidies.

Nothing is ever where I left it.

Enough said.