Wrapping it up

So I won't write again about "wrapping" presents in sacks with tissue paper stuffed on top (the truth be told, it appears that I devote way too much thought to wrapping paper in general, if one's to draw any conclusions from a search on "rantomat" and "wrapping paper," but one would prefer not to draw those conclusions). Then again, as certain jazz nobility once observed, "One never knows, do one?" or something like that. At any rate, in keeping with the current inventory-reduction strategy, there's an embargo on buying new gift-wrap and ribbon. Old scraps must go, no matter how fond a person is of the pattern. In the past couple of days, I've noticed that Hallmark for many years put a year next to its copyright symbol. So in wrapping smaller items I've used paper dating back to 1981. Some of the manufacturers print faint grids on the back of their paper as an aid to cutting straight lines and right angles. There seems to be no clue to the designer or manufacturer on the rolls of paper in stock here, but I know that they all came from school gift-wrap fund-raising projects and I still like all the patterns that came from those sources.