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Well we can believe you or we can believe the Bible:

John 19:39

And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.

19:40 Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.

wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury

I follow the science and the scholarship.

Wound also includes winding from under the body, up and over the head and down to the feet. It states that this was done in "as the manner of the Jews is to bury." It does NOT say "As the manner of the Egyptians is to bury." There are contemporaneous accounts from the First Century describing Jewish burial practices and they do NOT include mummy like wrappings. Just because you confabulate Egyptian mummies with Jewish shroud burials, and you find confirmation in a mis-interpretation of the Bible's words about grave cloths, a few sentences in the Bible do not trump what we have found in Jewish graves. Not ONCE has a Jewish body been found wrapped up like a mummy. The alternative definitions of the Greek words match the Jewish practice. Jewish burials have been found with the remnants of single sheet shrouds.

Note that Joseph of Arimathea bought a SHROUD... a fine linen shroud. He did not buy strips.

King James Bible
And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Joseph buying fine linen, and taking him down, wrapped him up in the fine linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewed out of a rock. And he rolled a stone to the door of the sepulchre.
English Revised Version
And he bought a linen cloth, and taking him down, wound him in the linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb which had been hewn out of a rock; and he rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.
σινδονα noun - accusative singular feminine
sindon sin-done': byssos, i.e. bleached linen (the cloth or a garment of it) -- (fine) linen (cloth).

Joseph would not have purchased a fine linen shroud and then taken the time to tear it into strips. Linen is a tough material and does not tear easily.

You seem to not believe that winding a cloth around a body can take a couple of forms. One way could be thinner strips wound around the body horizontally, as the Egyptians did when mummifying a body. Another way, which would be quicker, and satisfy the need to entomb Jesus before sundown, after He'd been removed from the Cross in the afternoon, would be to take a wide piece of cloth, and wrap His body vertically, starting with a short side behind his head, going up and over his head, down under his feet, then back up under his body.

As for the spices, doesn't the Bible tell us that Mary Magdalen and another woman were bringing them to the tomb, early in the morning, after the Sabbath, but they were wondering how they'd ever get the rock moved from the entrance to the tomb in order to place the burial spices on Jesus's body?