How I'm wasting my summer vacation, part 1: duct tape

Yes, you CAN judge a gift by its cover.

The Rewolinski clan’s annual midsummer Christmas reunion is coming up fast. Yes, midsummer Christmas, because it's too hard to schedule December parties in Wisconsin due to blizzards, avalanches, and glaciers calving.
 
The centerpiece of this picnic is the Crap Swap (aka white-elephant gift exchange). We’ve outdone ourselves this year. My hubby Tom found a paperback describing 1,000 uses for duct tape. If a woman wins this, she’ll know it’s a humor book. If a guy wins it, he’ll think it’s seriously useful.
 
Each crappy present must be wrapped so players choosing from the gift pile won’t know what they’re getting. I wrapped this one with cheap packing paper bound by – you guessed it – duct tape! Ha ha haaa! The wrapping project took at least five minutes. Now I must lie down for a nap.
 
~~Leah Rewolinski