If there was a list of some of the more important inventions of the last few years, I would have to include the gift bag.
Granted, ask me in June and it won’t even make the list, but this time of year… it might just make the top. Sure, there may be vaccines about to be released that will start putting the world back to some form of normal after this crazy year, but I would find it hard to rate them above the gift bag.
It’s not that I can’t wrap things. I’m just not good at wrapping things. Getting those corners tight and neat with tearing them to shreds seems to be just beyond my ability. Even cutting wrapping paper the right size is a major test.
And it’s not from lack of practice. I was known to wrap pretty much everything. There were years when I would take apart packages of batteries and wrap each one individually, making sure to use more tape than was necessary, to make them extra hard to open. None of this was neat, but it was wrapped.
But I have now been saved by the gift bag. And what’s not to like? Put gift in bag, stuff in a bit of tissue paper and you’re done. It’s easy, and it doesn’t look like you were fending off a herd of cats while trying to wrap.
Of course the easy way to fend off cats is to simply have a box handy. For some reason, they can’t resist boxes. They must sit in them.
However, the gift bag is one of mankind’s greatest invention. It saves time and relieves stress. It could be one of our great achievements.
