Where to Buy Christian Christmas Gift Wrap?

[Jim Robinson]

And Merry Christmas to you!

[Tangerine Time Machine]

Back to post #1. Did you find what you were looking for?

Heh. Actually, yes. ;)

[Sunshine55]

I've been very naive about FreeRepublic. Last week, there was a White Supremist rally down the street from where I live. When I drove by, I rolled down my window and asked the man holding a sign reading "LOVE YOUR RACE"...If you love your race, what race do you hate? Do you hate blacks? He said "not necessarily." I said..Do you hate Jews....he said. YES. I'm beginning to wake up. It's taken me a long time because I didn't want to see it. So....are you saying that Freepers are akin to White Supremicists? Just curious...

[OldFriend]

They're pizza bagels whether you can accept it or not!

Get over yourself, chill out.

Children born to a jewish mother are JEWISH.

Children born to a gentile mother and a jewish father are not considered JEWISH.

Silly isn't it.

All this squabbling is meaningless unless they're invoking their right of return to Israel.

For now they live in Colorado and Ohio with no plans to emigrate to Israel.

[mollynme]

The Japanese are big on wrapping cloths

Do you mean the furoshiki? People would rarely leave the cloths that they brought the gifts in. Of course we lived there 35 years ago.
As for my own gift bags, they start coming back to me before Christmas. LOL

[SuziQ]

I was in Tokyo for a couple of weeks this summer. We have homeschool friends who are there for two years because of her husband's work. She arranged for us (her, her kids, my daughter, me, and another friend of our daughters' who flew over with us) to take a cooking class. I had no idea that the teacher was a woman who had written 4 Japanese cookbooks! We had a wonderful time, and were at her place for almost 5 hours!

As a 'thank you' we sent her some kitchen towels we'd bought at a little shop that sold items based on old woodblock prints. I think my friend wrapped them in another more decorative cloth to send them.

I just assumed that the cloth would be part of the gift. I didn't realize that you could actually take the cloth back! Sounds good to me, they are so lovely, I'd hate to part with them! ;o)

[Sisku Hanne]

They didn't say Christmas-themed paper, they said Christian-themed Christmas paper. Which is akin to you wrapping a Chanukah gift in plain blue paper versus wrapping it in Star-of-David or menorah paper. One is merely festive, and one is faith-specific.
I'm sorry you live in an area where it's impossible to find what you want, and you are right that many of us do not know what that fells like. But that's no call to be ungracious. You have 2 options: buy online, or solve the problem and talk to a friendly manager at the Hallmark store or another appropriate shop and ask if they will stock some items for your needs. There may be others in the community who feel the same as you & you would be helping them, too.

Happy Chanukah to you!

[Hildy]

Of course not. Although there are some racists and anti-semites on this board. There's no disputing that. You're going to get that with such a large number of members to a right-wing website. I was just pointing out that I, personally, never really wanted to look at it head on...I always chose to look the other way or give anyone the benefit of the doubt. But this last week with what happened in my neighborhood and a few posts that were sent to me made me wake up. That's all.

[Corin Stormhands]

Clueless.

Who me? Perhaps.

But I do know it's not about Christmas wrapping paper or candy molds or whether or not the Target associate tells me "Merry Christmas."

[ExGeeEye]

That there are still people who believe Jews can't become Christians is the height of black irony.

Why it gotta be Black?

Just kiddin' :)

Merry RamaHanuKwaanzMasDays!

[CindyDawg]

Just wanted to let you know that Home Depot has "merry Christmas" wrapping paper:')

[ExGeeEye]

That's a pretty good idea... I might think about it for next year. Probably on eBay though, and save the cost of Brixan Mortar :)

Wonder if anyone else has had similar thoughts for the other seasonal holidays...

[CindyDawg]

Seems a shame to throw paper away. I'm going to look at pretty towel/clothes for next year.

[ExGeeEye]

Good thought.

Generally speaking the wrapping paper around here serves a decorative function along with the dying-tree-on-minimal-life-support under which the wrapped packages are displayed for the better part of two weeks.

The de-limbed tree and the wrapping paper are the basis for the New Years Eve fire.

An old tradition dating back to when the fireplace and windows were all the HVAC in the house -- Around 1870 :)

[DaiHuy]

Target, Wal-Mart, Sams Club, CostCo, Meijer. We went to all these stores today and asked managers to show us where their Christian Themed Wrapping paper had been placed. We knew they didn't have any we had already looked. But we wanted to bring this OBVIOUS oversight to the attention of the Store Directors. Not one of these Major Department Stores had a single... NOT ONE ROLL, NOT EVEN AN UGLY ROLL of wrapping paper that had anything to do with Christmas and the Reason the Christians celebrate this RELIGIOUS HOLIDAY. I have searched for two days online for anything we could order... Came across a role that said Feliz Navidad. Bob told me to buy that roll, I said "We aren't Hispanic". NO Happy Hanuka for the Jews, No Feliz Navidad for the Hispanics and NO Baby Jesus, Angels, Nativity, or Christian Themes for Christians this year!!

If you are as upset by this as I was I encourage you to do something about it... When you are shopping in the Dept store, find the Manager and ask them to walk the Wrapping Paper Isle with you... Surely they just misplaced the case of it. Let them see this oversight, if we don't bring it to their attention we will have the same issue next year.

However if you worship Dora, Scobby Do or Candy Canes, your in luck, the Dept Store Buyers thought enough of your religious holiday to make sure you were taken care of.