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The Cheapest Christmas Wrapping Paper in Ireland
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26-10-2013 4:48pm#1Ok, so maybe not the most expensive part of Christmas :P but with so many shops selling wrapping paper, I'd just love to know which is the cheapest :-)
The figure shows my findings so far. It's sorted from cheapest to dearest. The key figure to note is the Price Per Square Meter - this is the real value for money indicator!
The paper I'm comparing is just the ordinary stuff - not branded like Disney, Hello Kitty, etc.
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Yeah, for the bulk of my presents I'd use rolls and then a few smaller presents get nice paper. I'm mad about my wrapping though so can go overboard!
Maybe €3.99 for a sheet of wrapping paper would be more like it if I'm honest. But I would genuinely spend a fiver if it was really really fabulous paper.
Sometimes I just carried away- I spent €14.99 on a box just to put a present in once.
It was very nice though. I sneakily robbed it back once the person had opened their gift and I keep nail polishes in it now so it didn't go to waste!0 -
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justforgroups wrote: »Ok, so maybe not the most expensive part of Christmas :P but with so many shops selling wrapping paper, I'd just love to know which is the cheapest :-)
The figure shows my findings so far. It's sorted from cheapest to dearest. The key figure to note is the Price Per Square Meter - this is the real value for money indicator!
The paper I'm comparing is just the ordinary stuff - not branded like Disney, Hello Kitty, etc.
This is very handy to know. I volunteer with a group that makes up Christmas hampers. The hampers are cardboard boxes wrapped in Christmas wrapping paper. Cheap plentiful is what's need.0 -
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LadyMeowMeow wrote: »I want to know more about your "themes"!!!
Haha! People are probably fed up of me talking about them, I mention them every year
One year, I had a really simple black and gold theme. It was black wrapping paper with gold bows and ribbons of all shapes and sizes. Here's a pic.
The following year, I used plain brown parcel paper and used red twine instead of a ribbon. Instead of gift tags, I bought these cheap, old fashioned wooden Christmas tree decorations in Inspiring Ideas and tied those on.
Another year (this was my favourite!) I got silver wrapping paper, green ribbon and tied a few little jingle bells onto each gift. This is what I was inspired by. I didn't have the sheet music but the ribbons I had were the same lovely green colour and the bells were really effective, everyone loved them.
Last year I again used brown parcel paper, and then I put a strip of patterned wrapping paper around the middle of the present. I used green or red bows, and I made plain gift-tags out of card paper and tied them to the bow with thread. Pic here. This was reeeeally time consuming, I don't think I'd do it again!
I've no idea what to do this year!!! I actually think I might go back to doing something like the black and gold, a plain coloured wrapping paper and then different sorts of ribbons in another colour. It's really simple but looks lovely.0 -
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ibarelycare wrote: »Haha! People are probably fed up of me talking about them, I mention them every year
One year, I had a really simple black and gold theme. It was black wrapping paper with gold bows and ribbons of all shapes and sizes. Here's a pic.
The following year, I used plain brown parcel paper and used red twine instead of a ribbon. Instead of gift tags, I bought these cheap, old fashioned wooden Christmas tree decorations in Inspiring Ideas and tied those on.
Another year (this was my favourite!) I got silver wrapping paper, green ribbon and tied a few little jingle bells onto each gift. This is what I was inspired by. I didn't have the sheet music but the ribbons I had were the same lovely green colour and the bells were really effective, everyone loved them.
Last year I again used brown parcel paper, and then I put a strip of patterned wrapping paper around the middle of the present. I used green or red bows, and I made plain gift-tags out of card paper and tied them to the bow with thread. Pic here. This was reeeeally time consuming, I don't think I'd do it again!
I've no idea what to do this year!!! I actually think I might go back to doing something like the black and gold, a plain coloured wrapping paper and then different sorts of ribbons in another colour. It's really simple but looks lovely.
Wow! I love all the pics. They sound great. I love wrapping too and Theme is my middle name! I have no pictures but my favourite wrapping themes have been a deep purple and gold, then last year I had brown parcel paper, a kind of forest green and red and I used raffia, red/green ribbon or twine and I stuck things like candy canes, cinnamon sticks on to the presents.
Not sure what way to go this year.. Really loving the sheet music wrapping paper but it seems to be hard to find!0 -
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The Hallmark shops have sheet music wrapping paper- I've seen it in the Grafton Street and Stephen's Green branches.LadyMeowMeow wrote: »Not sure what way to go this year.. Really loving the sheet music wrapping paper but it seems to be hard to find!
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Just sheets. But they're pretty big.
They are brown paper with sheet music on them.
The one on Grafton Street is the 'Card Gallery' by the way. But that's essentially the same as Hallmark to me!
Edit- It looks like this
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I'm not near one of those shops myself, but from what you say I presume it's €2 per roll, making it 0.22 - a penny dearer than Dealz10 meter long x 90cm wide rolls for 2 euro in arro ecc hardware stores . they had quite a few styles of christmas paper to chose from , bought a few rolls earlier this morning good quality paper . 0 -
justforgroups wrote: »I'm not near one of those shops myself, but from what you say I presume it's €2 per roll, making it 0.22 - a penny dearer than Dealz
ah well you cant win em all . lol0 -
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I love the themed wrapping people have been talking about. In our house everyone has their own personal style - someone does newspaper, someone draws on art paper, one person does tinfoil, another does 'fancy' paper someone else does tissue paper etc. Since I was about ten I've done brown paper, I either decorate it or make gift tags etc... This year I got some notion that I would lino print on it. Apologies for this post being picture heavy!
These are the lino cuts, I went for two seemingly simple designs!
Paper drying, over the back of a kitchen chair.
The prints didn't come out quite perfect, as I couldn't afford the roller and had to use a paint brush, also, working on carpet is not as good as a hard surface.0 -
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Well it's that time of year again!! I know, 2+ months to go but since Christmas paper is on sale now, might as well start tracking the prices!
Dealz was the winner last year, with the best value at 0.18c, and currently is in the lead this year with a 10m roll coming out at 0.21c.
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