Amanda the Great by Amanda El-Dweek for January 07, 2023

Victory dance!

saving is always a good strategy (let’s just hope these wrappings don’t have expiry date, i.e. be worn out quickly)

Wrapping paper is one of those things where you don’t want the cheap stuff. The nice paper is so much easier to use.

I love Dan’s broad grin.

Weren’t there some with postage stamps onto them?

Oddly enough, this was originally the theme for the most recent Indiana Jones adventure, until it was insisted that the crystal skulls of a recent archeo-hoax would be a more compelling topic.

But it seems like each roll has a whopping twelve inches of paper on it. Twenty five cents each, or three for a dollar.

Except for the smaller brats we switched to bags with pretty decorative tissue paper. We sheepishly take the bags back.. so everybody hands us the bags. Wrapped stuff gets torn asunder by the aforementioned mini and micro brats anyway, so… … YES WE’RE CHEAP. :oD

Get extra cats.

I hate to nitpick, but who, besides you and Dan, says that something is on “good sale”? Is that a local idiom or something?

In the last panel, looks like you and Dan are seeking a Monopoly™ on gift wrap! o<[|;o)

Rich Uncle Pennybags was the original name of Mr. Monopoly. The name change came in 1999. That same year saw the introduction of his niece, Sandy, and his nephew, Andy.

I’ll wait until after Valentines day to buy candy.

At first glance I thought Dan was still in his blanket cocoon felling the effects of some medicine. LOL

I make draw sting bags with Christmas themed fabric that I can sometimes find in thrift stores.

I did this one year and haven’t had to buy wrapping paper for about three years. I bought a massive roll of Christmas paper that I used to wrap my kid’s presents from Santa for at least 8 years before I used it up. I’m starting to run out of regular paper now and am getting festive fabric and cloth bags and ribbons for next year. I’m tired of producing so much waste – you can’t recycle wrapping paper. That said, thanks to sales and the fact that I re-use ribbons and bows, I have enough to last me until the heat death of the universe. I have some festive package toppers that are thirty years old.

(other alternatives to wrapping paper, for those interested, is news papers and newspaper comics sections, that white drawing paper that comes on big rolls, and brown paper that also comes on rolls. You can draw on them, stamp them, etc or just use colorful bows. One year I did brown paper, twine, and bits of fake floral stuff. We re-use paper name tags but I’ve also gotten metal ornaments etched with peoples’ names. A wrapped gift with a smaller ornament gift on top.)

I get bags, cards, etc. at the after Christmas sales for the next year. I go out the day after other holidays to get 1/2 price candy for the office and me.

It’s a good thing that the wrapping paper fit in Dan & Amanda’s CAT-a-gory. Have a wonderful weekend everyone.

I found a sale like that in the early ’90s, and I never bought wrapping paper again.

I mean, it’s all gone now (bugs got some of it when I stored it in the garage), but now I use bags, or just don’t wrap due to getting clumsier in my old age. But I only spent around $6 for a lifetime of wrapping paper!

And yes, I’m cheap.

People give me stuff in bags, and I use the bags the next year to give them things.