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.