Martha once told me, beautiful gift wrapping sends a message of thoughtfulness that is as important as the gift itself. Especially if it’s a gift from Oprah.

So, say you can’t find the scissors, do not use a butter spreader to cut the paper you bought from the super discount bin a few years back. Use something sharper. Maybe a sheetrock screw.

Carefully take out any wrinkles on reused paper that you saved by carefully unwrapping a candle or something and just sort of cover the tapey bits with some more tapey bits. Sometimes the tapey bits show through. But possibly you can find a plastic butterfly and just cram it over the tapey bits and maybe jam in a sheetrock screw to hold it there.

And if you are a parent of a small child that may be receiving stuffed animals from me this year, you won’t care if there are a few teeth marks on it, right? Really. Just a couple. Maybe only one tooth mark. Very small toothmark. Teensy, tiny, shrimy little toothmark. No slobber. Still clean. Really! And it’s not really a stuffed animal. It’s a froggy backpack! How cute is that? Dogs CANNOT have one. Little backpack straps and you shove stuff in through it’s froggy throat! Take that dogs. You get some dog food. No froggy backpacks for you. Fangs be gone!