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Warning - Give Me Space

  I was exercising financial prudence by using our left over Christmas wrapping paper.  You know those “it has just enough to wrap one more gift” rolls.  All was going well, having completed using 3 past Christmas supplies, until I got to the last gift.  It was a big box for my husband.  There was no way around it; I needed fresh non-opened decorative paper.  Would it have to wait until the next day (given it was 1am in the morning by this time), to make a store run?  (Are any stores open 24 hours again; those were the days!)...  But no!  I found it in the back of the closet- a never before opened blue wrapping paper with snowflakes on it.  Score!   The pattern was so lovely! I did, for a second, wonder why we never used it, but shrugged and figured we didn’t see it in the back.  As the clear cover came off, the sparkles should have been my red flag warning.  It took half of the roll to cover the heavy box.  I ca...