--- title: Gift-Wrapping Hack Goes Viral, Internet Loves It description: This viral gift-wrapping hack will blow your mind and make your holiday gift giving that much more efficient. canonical: https://time.com/5751324/viral-gift-wrapping-hack/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-12-17T16:25:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:01:09.186Z og:title: Where Has This Gift-Wrapping Hack Been All Our Lives? og:description: Now it's here to save your holiday season og:url: https://time.com/5751324/viral-gift-wrapping-hack/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3f2d5da3e6ee16ad/698a07a1011682ea3a97eb46/gift-wrapping-hack.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Christmas Decoration And Gift Boxes On Table og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Where Has This Gift-Wrapping Hack Been All Our Lives? twitter:description: Now it's here to save your holiday season twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3f2d5da3e6ee16ad/698a07a1011682ea3a97eb46/gift-wrapping-hack.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Blessed Gift-Wrapping Hack Arrives to Solve Everything and Legitimately People Are Obsessed > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Dec 17, 2019 4:25 PM UTC  Greeting card - Christmas white wood background with christmas decoration Greeting card - Christmas white wood background with christmas decoration Getty Images/EyeEm—Copyright: Hannes Eichinger  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Dec 17, 2019 4:25 PM UTC [Wrapping gifts](https://time.com/5740489/gift-wrap-sustainable/) can sometimes feel like a test in your ability to correctly estimate the correct amount of wrapping paper in order to adequately cover the gift. Cut too much wrapping paper and you’ll end up with bulky surplus; cut too little of it and you won’t have enough to actually wrap the gift, leaving the package with gaping holes that are uncovered. However, there’s a clever solution that the Internet has found to solve having too little paper. If your gift is too big to be covered in the wrapping paper you cut when placed conventionally (that is, horizontally or vertically,) simply turn it on the diagonal, which provides more wrapping paper to cover the gift. It’s a fairly [simple life hack](https://time.com/5749530/bed-sheet-hack/), but one that will no doubt make your [holiday season](https://time.com/3645601/this-holiday-season-lets-give-the-gift-of-being-present/) much smoother — and help save the amount of wrapping paper you use! 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