This came at the perfect time for me. I like buying presents. I really dislike wrapping and mailing presents. The result was a guest bedroom full of presents that needed to be wrapped and about half of them needed to be packaged to be mailed.
I decided that my 24-hour present wrapping and packaging boot camp would start at nap time on Wednesday. I cleared off the dining room table and brought out all the presents and wrapping supplies. I turned on some Christmas music and went to work. It took me longer than I expected and I thought about stopping a couple of times, but I was determined to finish. Finally, I had everything wrapped and packed.
I had some child-free time on Thursday morning, so I finished my boot camp then by taking my packages to the post office. By a terrific stroke of luck, there was no line at the post office and I had a lovely chat with the post office employees.
The 24-hour boot camp worked really well for me. Every day I dreaded dealing with the wrapping. Now, I am completely done. Of course, there are a couple of straggling presents, but I can handle those. I'll definitely use the 24-hour boot camp in the future.
No line at the post office? 7 yrs and I don't think that I ever saw no line at the post office! ha!
ReplyDeleteI like this process and need to commit to trying it in the new year on some big looming projects. Like accepting this baby will come and need clothes and a place to sleep ;-)
Generally, the post office is almost always the worst part of my day. If you are ever in Evanston, I highly recommend the Central St branch PO - they are very friendly.
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