Starting last year my brother in law decided to make our presents to each other difficult to open. Last year was a pretty basic multiple boxes wrapped in duck tape form me, and from him a gift wrapped in multiple plastic bags melted down.
This year we turned it up a notch, figured it might entertain you all.
From me:
Altoids Tin with a paper inside letting him know what his gift was. (Too big to wrap.) Welded inside a metal "cage".
From him:
Large tin can filled with concrete. Inside was a smaller can with a very bright CAT flashlight.
I figure you can only go so much farther than that with the brute force difficult to open tactics, not sure what we'll do next year...
My favorite until seeing that welded box was always ziptie weave.
I've used paper mache for kids presents to good effect, but the double strike of clear tape covering super glue has been good for frustrating my friends kids.
RossD
MegaDork
12/26/18 9:10 a.m.
Difficult to open? Neat concept. The deceptive wrap job taken to the next level.
You know what is difficult to open? A package being held at the front desk of a hotel the next state over. 
Nugi
Reader
12/26/18 9:10 a.m.
I love this stuff. I find the more you can see the gift, and the more challenging to opwn without destroying the gift, the better. No need to go fort knox, when a few welded rings around a bottle of good whiskey suffice. Bonus points for creative ways around the obvious destruction, like tapping the cork, etc. Other option is to make puzzle types, but engineering time goes up exponentally.
RossD said:
You know what is difficult to open? A package being held at the front desk of a hotel the next state over.
Hahahaha. That's a good idea... I was kinda thinking of some sort of "treasure map" style present where he'd have to actually find it first. Would be especially fun to have it be zip-tied under his truck the whole time or something....
My brother in law works at the Post Office. He can break anything open.
I love this but I don’t have any relatives that would enjoy it. Instead I get things people would love but can not use. Years ago I had a Finding Nemo antenna ball on my car. My FIL wanted one but could not find them anywhere. Once I realized his Golf didn’t have an antenna I had a friend near Disney world send me twenty of them. Everyone except me wrapped one for him for Christmas. In the middle of unwrapping gifts he took one, laughed at me for taunting him about not having one, then ran out to find he had no antenna to put it on. This year my SIL talked about wanting to try a bath bomb constantly. After unwrapping a few yesterday someone mentioned that she only had a shower, no tub.
AWSX1686 said:
RossD said:
You know what is difficult to open? A package being held at the front desk of a hotel the next state over.
Hahahaha. That's a good idea... I was kinda thinking of some sort of "treasure map" style present where he'd have to actually find it first. Would be especially fun to have it be zip-tied under his truck the whole time or something....
Howzabout a geocached gift?
In reply to slantvaliant :
I like that idea
