It’s happened to most of us: a last-minute mercy dash to the shops just before closing time to find a gift for an occasion since forgotten. Usually it resembles a packet of tea, some loose candles and a tin of kerosene as these seem to be the staple items you can always rely on finding. Once home, one foot in the shower and the other out the door, it’s when it dawns upon us all: We forgot the bloody wrapping paper.

Designers, Fabio Milito and Francesca Guidotti have created Wordless universal wrapping paper. Cleverly designed like a word search puzzle, the wrapper can select their message from twenty different occasions:

MERRY CHRISTMAS / HAPPY BIRTHDAY / HAPPY VALENTINES DAY / HAPPY EASTER / HAPPY THANKSGIVING / I LOVE YOU / I MISS YOU / HAPPY NAME DAY / CONGRATULATIONS / HAPPY RETIREMENT / RECOVER SOON / GREETINGS WITH LOVE / YOU ARE THE BEST / FOR DAD / FOR MOM / ENJOY / ALL THE BEST / IT IS NOT A TIE / IT IS NOT A PERFUME

You can even customise Wordless for your power-wrapping purposes should you have an entire room dedicated to the packaging of presents à la Tori Spelling. Despite being a little generic, it sure beats using an old newspaper or aluminium foil peeled from the bottom of the oven.

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