By Malika Risley
I love giving gifts! I feel good when I see the excitement on the recipients’ faces as they are about to find out what they got.
Mystery is an important part of gift giving. We conceal the gifts before we give them away. It’s the feeling of surprise and anticipation that gets everyone so excited about getting a gift. Wrapping a gift is not a matter of practicality, it’s a matter of delivering emotion.
But paying for something that is going to get torn apart and thrown away just doesn’t seem right to me. At the same time I don’t want to look like a total cheapskate when my present is being unwrapped. So I still wrap my gifts and make them presentable. I just improvise on the materials. Here is what I do to save money on gift wrapping: