Gift Wrapping

I am starting to not really understand the whole gift wrapping idea, or Thank You cards..I have never really understood that one.

To think that we spend money that we worked hard for on paper so that someone can RIP it off seems kinda stupid.  I like the newspaper wrapping idea, then you are at least re-using something.  Who REALLY HONESTLY cares what your present looks like, what paper it's wrapped in before you open it...
It just seems like one of those things someone came up with and convinced everyone it was the thing to do and started making MEGA Money off of it...cause if you step back and look at the process...what's really the point.

Which brings me to my next topic...Thank You cards...
Now I understand if you are not with the person when you get the gift or when you open it, then it makes sense to me.  BUT if I am standing there...you open my gift...you say "WOW I love it Thank you So much!" (or something to that effect)  do you really need to write that in a card and send it to me as well?  Aren't I just tasking you with another thing to get done in your day at that point -"Tell me how great I am again for getting you that gift - spend money on me by writing and mailing me a card".  I think the verbal THANK YOU is enough...for me anyway.  Maybe I am just different, it just seems like over kill to me...Hallmark is making millions off of us and we just blindly follow :0)

Ok well I hope you all enjoy your BEAUTIFULLY wrapped packages and perfect Thank You cards, all following the proper etiquette I'm sure.

(please don't take this as a serious rant...Just a random thought I put into words...I'm sure I'll keep wrapping presents too...the brainwasahing is too hard to resist sometimes - some people take my blog too seriously and I have gotten backlash...I am really a lighthearted, sarcastic person who likes to challenge the way I think sometimes in an amusing way (amusing to myself anyway - and that's why I write - for myself))