Sounds like I got off light this year compared to you monkey. I had to play recieving terminal for all the gifts my sister bought on-line for my nephew (starting about three weeks ago). Starting last night, I had to re-pack them, because he was trying to guess each and every one of 'em.
Nothings' quite as much fun as re-packing a stereo (one of those Sharp boomboxes from walmart) out of the original packing, into a second box, only to find out that it won't fit the box.
So I ended up putting one stereo in two boxes for my neice, packed with news paper to prevent rattling, and the other one in a microwave box (for my nephew, again packed with newspaper). It took having to rummage through the storage shed to find a box in reasonable condition to use.
Not only that, but I ran out of clear packing tape (ask imbroken, lol), so I had to use duct tape to seal up the box.
My neice and nephew got to open the stereos earlier tonight. The first thing my neice said (according to my sister) "Uncle wrapped these, didn't he?". I dunno if it's a good thing or not if I'm known to use duct tape in a pinch, eh?
All this was accomplished in a 30 minute time span (the repacking of the stereos, and wrapping them, complete with bows).
On top of that, I still had to wrap games (about 8 PS2 games), a soccer ball, some dvd's, and a pair of cleats (nephew is playing soccer for highschool right now, but going to be playing football, varsity, this coming year).
At least I didn't have to do any assembly this year.
