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    ICYMI: Waterstones has the hottest gift-wrapping tip of the season.

    Jessie Gaynor
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    December 16, 2019, 11:31am

    ‘Tis the season of realizing the limits of your spacial awareness! “Measure twice, cut once”? In this economy? Luckily, UK bookseller Waterstones has opened our eyes to a new way of rectifying our (easily preventable) gift-wrapping fuck-ups. Behold:

    Rotate diagonally! It works for books, as well as any number of book-shaped objects! It’s official: Gift-wrapping Twitter is the only good Twitter.

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