‘Wrapping Gifts As Something Not Even Remotely Close’ Is The Best TikTok Christmas Trend

The fun of receiving presents is the surprise of not knowing what the gift is. This is why it sucked so much when you were a kid and you saw a flat gift under the Christmas tree because you just automatically knew it’s going to be a piece of clothing.

Sure, these days receiving clothes as a gift is fine. It’s actually a great gift when people know your style as an adult. But the kid in all of us still enjoys a little surprise.

This is why the latest TikTok trend, where people are wrapping presents as something entirely different to what they actually are, is so damn good.

You see, the whole thing started four days ago when Elijah Mooney decided to share his favourite Christmas tradition with TikTok: “Wrapping gifts as something not even remotely close”.

For his gift of a cocktail shaker and accompanying 101 cocktail recipe book, Mooney transformed the presents and wrapped them into the shape of a teddy bear to throw the gift receiver off entirely.

As expected, Mooney’s extremely impressive wrapping fake-out went mega-viral with over seven million views and just shy of two million likes.

Immediately after the original video went viral, people on TikTok followed Mooney’s steps and decided that they were also going to trick all their family and friends with their prank wrapping.

All set to Louis Prima’s ‘Pennies From Heaven’, everyone partaking in the ‘Wrapping Gifts As Something Not Even Remotely Close’ trend reveal their skilled wrapping creations when ‘Shoobie Doobie’ is sang, of course.

And over the last three days clothes have been transformed into chairs, board games have been disguised as singular ice skates, lone t-shirts have taken on the shape of literal push bikes, and Nintendo Switch consoles have become vacuum cleaners.

As the trend continued, however, it became pretty obvious that people were no longer using wrapping paper and their own construction skills to disguise gifts.

With items like ladders, picnic tables, kayaks with oars and whole-ass humans popping up, it was clear that people were just wrapping everyday objects in the hopes of going viral.

But, to be honest, it’s still pretty funny to see people wasting wrapping paper and hours of their life to give us all a quick laugh.

However, even when it seemed to have gotten as ridiculous as it could get, some proved they were being very serious in their attempts to disguise their gifts.

Take Connor Gorney, for example, who wrapped two $10 Subway gift cards into the shape of a life-size car, and left the present in the winter snow.

While it looked like it he could’ve just gift-wrapped an actual car, Connor filmed a follow-up video to prove that he had actually constructed an entire car out of cardboard and wrapping paper. At this point, I have some serious trust issues.

But as the trend continued, and it seemed like every object imaginable had already been wrapped, some decided to switch up the trend entirely.

Instead of deciding to wrap gifts as something not even remotely close, people begun to wrap their presents exactly as they looked to remove the element of surprise all together. A real Christmas treat!

I don’t know about you, but I’m obsessed with gift wrapping TikTok and will be sad when December is over.