Popsugar Living Christmas This Viral Gift-Wrapping Hack Is a Total Game Changer Cut a Piece of Wrapping Paper Too Small? This Viral Hack Can Help 17 December 2019 by Victoria Messina This is a public service announcement 🎄 📚 🤓pic.twitter.com/vCYELqyVQa— Waterstones (@Waterstones) December 16, 2019 Please excuse me for a moment, dear reader; I need to pick up the remains of my hypothetically exploded brain. Why, you ask? Because I just learned a glorious gift-wrapping hack that has blown my mind and made me question my existence and intelligence. UK-based bookseller Waterstones is going viral on Twitter for sharing a video that demonstrates how to wrap a rectangular holiday gift after cutting a piece of paper that's too small to cover it horizontally or vertically. In the seven-second clip originally created by Blossom Hacks, a mysterious pair of hands simply rotates the gift diagonally, and voila — the same piece of paper magically wraps around the entire gift, leaving no surface exposed. Somewhere back in Florida, my high school geometry teacher is weeping and shaking her fist in the air at me for not taking her lessons to heart. It looks like I'm not the only one out there whose eyes have just been opened to this genius trick. The video has been viewed nearly 14 million times and flooded with hundreds of comments, ranging from "Where the hell have I been?" to "What kind of sorcery is this?" Although a handful of Twitter users chimed in to comment on how the metallic paper used in the video isn't recyclable and therefore should be avoided for Mother Earth's sake — a valid point, I must say — the method is nevertheless a game changer and can be used with eco-friendly wrapping paper as well. Watch the Viral Gift-Wrapping Hack This is a public service announcement 🎄 📚 🤓pic.twitter.com/vCYELqyVQa— Waterstones (@Waterstones) December 16, 2019 1 / 15 See How People Responded on Twitter What kind of sorcery is this? And why did no one tell me sooner? (All those years of wasted wrapping paper and late-night Christmas Eve tears....)— Don'tMakeMeStopThisCar (@ttapreed) December 16, 2019 2 / 15 I was a bookseller for 3 years, wrapped about a million books, and I did not know this. I feel embarrassed and ashamed.— Sam Copeland (@stubbleagent) December 16, 2019 3 / 15 I JUST finished wrapping yesterday and cannot tell you how many times I got stuck with this problem. I’m a lil mad right now— DeAnna (@87andsunny) December 16, 2019 4 / 15 This is going to save me so much wrapping paper when I gave to wrap literally 20 books this week— midworldsaint (@midworldsaint1) December 17, 2019 5 / 15 woah, gift-wrapping game changer. This is why the internet is a good place sometimes.— Matt Casbourne (@Matt_Casbourne) December 16, 2019 6 / 15 I was today years old when I learned this. And I ACED geometry. pic.twitter.com/VcDjuVPOgb— OK Boomer Gen X Edition (@Insanely_Smart) December 16, 2019 7 / 15 So hypnotic... cannot stop watching... trying to avoid thinking about the mountain of wrapping I've still got to do...— MetroRod-OX&W.Bucks (@MetroRodOxford) December 16, 2019 8 / 15 Where was this video 3 days ago when I was chuntering under my breathe for cutting the paper short 😂👍— Dawn (@dawn_cooper5) December 16, 2019 9 / 15 Waterstones, you have dramatically improved the quality of my life and have saved my sanity. Mind blown. Thank you!!— Corlie Weber (@teachkindness99) December 17, 2019 10 / 15 I spent the last hour and some change crumpling up & taping down some gift wrap when it’s been this simple the whole time??? I’m tired 😔— TheMelanatedIntrovert (@JustUrAvgTab) December 17, 2019 11 / 15 Where the hell I have been? I didn't even THINK of this when it comes to wrapping. omg. 😲— Caitlin Schaffter |spnchi (@Caitlin_schafft) December 17, 2019 12 / 15 Thank the lrt I found this before wrapping all my gifts pic.twitter.com/3yEJDk1Oul— Zach Everett (@Knack4Gaming) December 16, 2019 13 / 15 🤯, where has this been, how did you know, i mean just...what...who, why now? I’m just gonna.. thanks!— henry (@henry5555555) December 16, 2019 14 / 15 The comments making me feel better about being today years old before I learned this trick.— The League of Liddle’ Revans (@nephthysmoon) December 16, 2019 15 / 15 ChristmasWrapping PaperTwitter ReactionsHoliday LivingLife HacksHoliday