One of my favorite parts of Christmas preparations is setting up my Wrapping Center! We started doing this when we moved in to our house and had space to actually utilize it. For the first few years, we used our guest bedroom....and then Connor was at an age where he realized what we were doing and my mom moved into the guest room, so now we have it set up in our basement. It works just as well, if not better, because all of the gifts we buy come from the car, to the basement and get wrapped and stored in Rubbermaid Totes until the Big Guy comes. No sneaky peekys!
So, what do we have in our wrapping center? Well, it starts with a 6' long banquet table that we purchased for our family gatherings several years ago at BJ's. Then, we have all of our wrapping paper stored standing up in a storage container purchased at Target a few years ago. It looks like a garbage can with a tall lid which is great for keeping the paper dust free and from rolling all over! (I will admit to having a penchant for the wrapping paper, especially Hallmark wrapping paper, so we have a lot of it!) After that, we have separate boxes of bows, tags, pens and scissors, adhesive runners and tape lined up on a nearby shelf so that we have everything we need to wrap at our fingertips. Gift bags and larger shirt boxes are stored in a Rubbermaid Tote standing up on the floor - we just flip through to find what we need.
This has saved us SO. MUCH. TIME when we have a last minute gift to wrap, or a quick 5 minute block of time(especially while waiting for laundry to finish!)...and especially when Brian needs to wrap gifts! So, I guess I'd better get to setting that up this weekend because the presents are piling up and we need to get wrapping!
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