Decorating, shopping, planning menus, hosting get-togethers … the holiday to-do list is always the longest one of the year. But what if there were a way to check off your tasks and catch up with ...

Once you’ve completely filled every surface of your home with pictures of the kids, vacations, cat, dog, car, grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles, and strangers, what’s a person to do? Well, not to ...

Happy holidays! This week we’re revisiting our favorite festive stories from years past, like this one: Once, at a dinner party, I was entranced when a friend unpacked her backpack to reveal each of ...

Gift-wrapping is a skill that only some people possess. I am not “some people.” I found this out decades ago when I first attempted to wrap holiday gifts on my own — it seemed easy in theory, but I ...

Not all gifts are conveniently rectangular. Sometimes the presents you buy your friends and family come in an odd shape, making them harder to wrap. Fortunately this is a problem people have been ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. When it comes to wrapping gifts, nothing presents more of a ...

But here’s a revelation guaranteed to blow your mind — you may have been wrapping your presents wrong and there is a much easier way of doing it. Most people wrap their gifts lengthwise, folding the ...

There was a time when a trip to Macy’s didn’t end at the register. You could walk a few steps farther and watch a pro transform a simple box into something almost too pretty to open. Crisp seams, ...

CARMEL -- All you who've ever come up one darn centimeter short of wrapping paper after measuring just right. All you who have fiddled with the ends, folding and taping until it looked like a lump of ...

If I've ever wrapped a present - Christmas or birthday - in my life, I certainly don't remember it. I'm sure I probably have, but that particular memory has disappeared from my mind. When buying gifts ...