asian parents and gift wrapping. Options

[aznxdreamer]

do your parents(especially asian parents) open gifts slowly and carefully so they can save the paper for other times. mine do, and i find it extremely annoying . they also save the little bags people put gifts in. once, we gave the same bag back to the the person who gave it to us.

[misoka]

lmao...actually I'm the one that does that. Sometimes if I find really nice wrapping, I take off the tape carefully...it takes me a while to open it...then again I barely get any presents.

But I never give back the same bag back to the person who gave it to us...I usually find a use for it. *storage, etc.*

My parents tell me to just tear apart the wrapping...

[RandomHero]

Well i don't have asian parents but my mom opens gifts slowly...but doesn't save the paper Don't ask...cause i don't even know why.

[Flip-o-Matic]

wow. lol that's how my entire asian family is... i dunno y. it's juss the way it's been. reuse it all the time, tho.

[jr0h]

my mom used to do that and it was annoying but now my FRIENDS DO THAT. wats up with that. lol.

[dafunnybunny]

my mom just likes to save the bags. she uses them when she gives other ppl gifts.

[DaTru KataLYST]

my dad gets terribly mad when I rip open any packaging. Terribly. Terribly pissed. hour long lecture pissed.

[Godsend]

we dont celebrate holidays except birthdays and laos new years...it's still good tho. although we don't exchange gifts and what not.

[*Azarel*]

my dad gets terribly mad when I rip open any packaging. Terribly. Terribly pissed. hour long lecture pissed.

Asian parents, we all have them. Haha.

[lovescream]

Not my mother.
she opens like I do, like a child. Not really. Maybe she has more manners while opening gifts than I do.

[kevinma03]

My parents did it for awhile but then we realized we always end up losing the wrapping paper. Besides you can tell if its been used and you just end up looking really cheap

[miszkristinexox]

my grandparents do that, not my parents.
my parents just save the bags.

[Ataryu]

Im not asian, but we save the tissue paper, and ribbons...

[ANG33ZY]

No. Well my grandparents do & some of my aunties, but not my parents.

[*stephinika*]

haha no but we do recycle gift bags. and we got a looot of chocolate boxes this year...we kinda re-gift some of them...

[kellyannie]

haha my mom isn't asian but she does do that

[*wind&fire*]

yes... i "accidentaly" rip the paper when i open it... i used to open it like that when i was young.. boy was i ignorant

[relicwcircuits]

i open the gifts slowly

[tootsie_kiddo]

doesnt EVERYONE save those little bags...??? ack, idk cuz i live in japan where everyone is an asian

[jennyjenny]

Rofl.
True.
My parents would open it carefully..
and then save the bag...
actually, there are like, 20 bags in my closet...

[Saeglopur]

My parents save the bags but when it comes to gift wrapping... uh, they just throw it away?


I open my gifts viciously so.. there's no way you can conserve the giftwrapping on my gifts.. even if you tried.. or if you're an gift wrapping doctor-- is there such thing?

[iheartsimba]

yah i save the bags but used wrapping paper is pretty cheap to give someone =/ besides, if you wanna like save it that bad why bother and just use newspape ror somthing

[christiee_nax]

well i do that. i dont know but i just like keeping memories ^^

[sm0kinm0nky]

YES. lol everyyear. when im open to tear the wrapping off, there like NO! save it..so we have to like a pocket knife and like cut the tape off and try and not to ruin the wrapping... my parents do it with grocery bags too, we have like literally 1000 bags hanging in this closet.

[gigiopolis]

I don't think this applies ONLY to Asian parents...I think some people are like that and some people aren't. I'm one of these people, and I know a lot of people who aren't, and a lot who are. My parents always tell me to rip it out quickly and throw the paper in the garbage, haha.

[MrElsewhere]

Meh, the tendency to save things and use them for other things, I think, comes from living in a poorer time/place/location. We don't get that many presents given to us around xmas time. I tear the wrapping paper right off my presents. Who gives a eff about the paper?

[sheepy]

na uhs i don't cus i don't have that much patience haha

[D1SMANTLED]

my parents dont care...

[silver-rain]

lmao...actually I'm the one that does that. Sometimes if I find really nice wrapping, I take off the tape carefully...it takes me a while to open it...then again I barely get any presents.

But I never give back the same bag back to the person who gave it to us...I usually find a use for it. *storage, etc.*

My parents tell me to just tear apart the wrapping...

haha yeah me too. i used to carefully open the wrapping paper to save it, but now, i just rip the wrapping paper. haha, but i usually keep the bag if i think its nice.

[Skyline Drive]

once, we gave the same bag back to the the person who gave it to us.

That was just too funny.
My parents only do that with the gift bags ;]

[LeSLiE]

My family just rips all of it off really fast. They don't really care.. Btw.. I know mom's who do that and they aren't asian..

[shortiiex]

my mom does that...well except for the wrapping paper

[miss barnes]

my parents arent asian but we do save the bags. and bows sometimes

[xj_liana_tx]

they do that.. my parents are very asian

[ApunBindaas]

Asian parents are so cheap! However, my parents aren't like that. Thank goodness.

[Euphoria Rose]

My family doesn't do that. Since we celebrate Christmas with a large amount of people, unwrapping slowly will delay the rest of the presents that still needed to be opened. We just tear it off. And I worked so hard to make the presents look nice when I wrapped it.

[inlonelinessidie]

Im not asian, but we save the tissue paper, and ribbons...

Yup same here. And the boxes and gift bags lol. People it the stores are stingy and never give them out! So we're really forced to save them.

lmao...actually I'm the one that does that. Sometimes if I find really nice wrapping, I take off the tape carefully...it takes me a while to open it...then again I barely get any presents. 

But I never give back the same bag back to the person who gave it to us...I usually find a use for it. *storage, etc.*

My parents tell me to just tear apart the wrapping...

Hahaha yeah no one does it in my family just me. I guess it's because I wrap all the gifts and hate to see that my hours of work are just torn apart. But we don't save the wrapping paper even though I take my precious time trying not to tear anything.

[*x____duckii*]

my mom just likes to save the bags. she uses them when she gives other ppl gifts.

Heh, same here. I don't take my time while opening my gifts. I only save the wrapping if it's really nice.

[HikaruTakekawa]

once, we gave the same bag back to the the person who gave it to us.

haha. my parents dont do that but sometimes i unwrap the my presents slowly cuz people probably spent alotta of time gift wrapping it so i feel bad for ripping it apart infront of them. lol.

[demolished]

lol, eveyone likes to regift things becuase its nice and $ave money. lol.

[lisaaaaaaa]

uhhh....not gift wrapping, but tissue paper, boxes, and bags. yep. ahhaha..... for christmas i got this box that had writing on it saying "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!" and my mom crossed it out XD but i like keeping bags.

[xbernaa]

i do that sometimes..when i find nice/cool wrapping..especially the foil ones..lol..my mom use to do that..

[cmgchica717]

Humm not so much my parents but my grandparents OMG it bugs me...but then its kinda cute at the same time!!

[angel-roh]

lol mine used to lOL...but not anymore... we just hurry up and tear it up like a crazy person... lol i act like a crazy mental person loL jk

[xTINAA]

well if it`s really nice gift wrapping paper my mom will sometimes open it all carefully and slowly but if not we just rip it up. and the bags, well not only are my parents the ones who keep them, but i do too. shoot, bags can be expensive. why not save them and give them away again instead of having to spend like an extra buck or 2 on each present.

[Just_Dream]

... I LIKE TO SAVE WRAPPING TOO! Only if it's pretty. But still, I barely get anything wrapped any more.. It's always some money or something in a bag.. and usually I save that bag lol... And usually, I expect anyone who receives a gift from me that I wrapped up, to save the wrapping lol, even though they probably didn't. I take time and delicately wrap the gifts and yea... Bleh. My parents don't save the wrapping.. not that I know of.. They barely wrap things anyway. It's all about being lazy and going out to buy a christmas bag and putting the gift in it with a group of tissue paper.

[*FreeStickers*]

My mom does. I think it's funny.

[gelionie]

Well it depends on the wrapping.
If it's really pretty and nice, even if my parents don't ask me to open it carefully, I'll do it and save the wrapping paper (NOT using it again I mean). =]

[*salcha*]

my mom saves the foil gift wrap and throws away the paper ones.
but we always reuse gift bags, ribbons, bows, tissue paper, etc...
and when we run out of wrapping paper we always use coupons or go to the dollar store to buy gift wrap

man we're cheap!!

[Jealousy]

We're Australian and my parents do that too! My Mum does anyway.
And my younger sister wrapped a gift in tiny pieces of reused paper and they all fell off before she gave it to the person it was for.

[azn hunni xox]

Yeahh... my parents do that... it's so annoying! Oh well, they don't do it that much now, unless it's really nice wrapping paper.

They gave the same bag to the people who gave it to you? Hmm... they might find that a bit rude... but that's just me... hm... yeahh... ehh... my parents used to go overboard too --;

[emptyminded]

we dont celebrate holidays except birthdays and laos new years...it's still good tho. although we don't exchange gifts and what not.

hmm. i thought i was the only one...

Oh and yes, when people give us gifts-- the bag is saved..[rolls eyes]

[mai_z]

lmao just gift bags for us... we happen to regift quite a bit tho...espeically with the amount of chocolate we get...

[audory]

LOL. man. wrapping paper? no. but bags.. and tissue paper. hell yes. "oh, by the way audrey. once you've opened your present, give me the bag and the tissue paper."
"why?"
"i can reuse it!!!" *angrily*
"uh.. okay mom... *under breath* asians... "

[laur3nw]

Haha, we save the nice bags only. The ugly bags and wrapping paper, we just recycle them. I know a few relatives that do save the paper.

[*xcaitlinx*]

my parents arent asian...and they certainly arent that anal where they save wrapping paper lol

[1--GIRL]

lol, my parents don't. I do

[LaNcEr x EvO]

my family opens em slowly n then throws the wrap away. wtf?

[FRESH_n_ScandeL0...]

my family opens em slowly n then throws the wrap away. wtf?

^yeah same here...the open up the gift all slow as if they were going to save the wrapping paper...but then ends up throwing it away anywaize. We save bags too...we always re use them...sometimes i feel bad.

[panaginip13]

Haha, my whole family always saves wrapping paper, especially if the wrapping papers really nice-looking.

[jambaJUICE]

No i'm the one that does that.

[KissMe2408]

lol not just asian parents do it. A lot of parents, no matter what the race do that. My mom doesn't, but my grandma takes like 10 hours to open her gift..

[lilgoldfish64]

haha...i have asian parents...but they seem to rip the wrappin...but i like to save wrapping if i think its pretty and use it as book cover or somethin else

[hypa stylez]

i do that. shieh i did it in front of my friend and he was like "c'mon c'mon c'mon" and i gave my friend a recently used gift bag that doesn't even sell any of the stuff inside it

[lilteardrop]

haha i do that. and i used the wrapping for my lil sis. heehee ^__^