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Crap Christmas Gift Wrapping.
Instructional: Making your presents look like ass.
The studies are in. Badly wrapped Christmas presents are appreciated more.
Are you one of those people who does a meticulous job of selecting the right Christmas paper, cutting it just so, folding and flattening the edges, trimming the excess paper, using perfectly cut sellotape in just the right spots before finishing it off with matching ribbons and bows?
It turns out that you’ve been mismanaging people's expectations.
Researchers at the University of Nevada found wrapping presents too neatly inflates the expectations of what’s inside — while doing a sloppy job actually helps the gift go over better.
You need to make your present look like rubbish so I threw together this crash course on how to bodge your Christmas gift wrapping… but without pictures, because ain't nobody got time for that.
Rule 1: Discard the scissors.
Scissors do an excellent job of neatening efforts… which means they have to go. Instead, use the edge of the bench or table to do a half-assed fold-and-tear jobby. When your paper tears off in a…
