How to Wrap at Cat for Xmas

I finished gift wrapping this morning, just in time for the family to arrive tonight. Some of us are challenged when it comes to wrapping, I'm in that camp. I get the job done, but it is generally not a stellar job. For starters, I don't like to put items in boxes it makes for bulky gifts and since I often have to travel with them bulky is bad. Second traveling with wrapped gifts often means the packaging has taken its licks and looks like it. In the end I find decorative bags are a nice choice.

And really, I just don't enjoy the wrapping process, it seems so pointless because most wrapping is literally ripped apart. Wrapping gifts isn't my forte. That's not to say I don't really appreciate the work of those of you who do a really great job, I do, but I'm not one to do it.

So many of us struggle when it comes to wrapping odd items and nothing seems more odd to wrap than a live cat. The video below showed up on one of the knitting chat rooms I follow (knitters are cat people). Now no comments please, I didn't wrap Mike, this is someone else wrapping their cat. And yes I am aware this is a older cat and he doesn't seem enthralled with the process, but the creator has the decency to remove the wrapping before the cat gets too frustrated. Take this video for what it is, someone with an amiable cat that tolerated the wrapping process.

So click on this link; it is just under 2 minutes. It may make you appreciate you don't have to wrap something as odd as a cat this year for Xmas. I know I'm glad I don't have to wrap anything anymore!

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