Need some gift wrapping ideas?

Try some of the following suggestions to make your gift giving special.

Oddly Shaped Gifts

Some gifts are a challenge to adequately wrap. To deal with one of those, why not give one of these ideas a try?

- Gift bags are a popular way to wrap an oddly shaped gift. Just place the gift in the bag and cover with brightly colored tissue paper.

- Put a large sheet of wrapping paper on the floor, design side down. Place the gift in the middle, and pull the four corners of the paper up and toward the middle. Close the top by tying the corners with a festive ribbon.

- Take some wrapping paper and use some tape to form a tube — design side out. Then tape one of the open ends closed, put your gift inside, and tape the other end. Or only tape one end and then slide the tube over the top of the present like a sock. You can just leave the open end resting on the floor.

Gifts Without a Physical Form

How do you wrap gifts like electronic books, downloaded software, or downloaded music. These ideas will give you something a little more tangible to put under the tree.

- Burn the files for the digital gift onto a CD. Alternatively, buy a thumb drive or memory stick and copy the digital files onto the memory device.

- Print the download instructions for the digital gift. Then purchase (or make) a Christmas card and include the printed instructions inside the card.

- Many digital gifts include a “digital book cover” or some other graphical image, either as the first page of the product (in the case of an ebook) or in the advertising used to sell the product. Print a copy of one or more of these graphical images. Then roll the paper into a “scroll” and tie a colorful ribbon around it to hold it closed.

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