Gift Bag Puns
1. I bought my friend a gift bag covered in pictures of clocks. It was very timely.
2. My gift bag ripped open and spilled everything inside. It was truly a gift bag fail.
3. I was feeling crafty so I made a gift bag out of old maps. You could say it was well-traveled.
4. I wanted an eco-friendly gift bag so I reused an old potato sack. It was the root of sustainability.
5. I tried to wrap a bowling ball in tissue paper. Turns out I needed a sturdier gift bag.
6. I made a gift bag out of aluminum foil. It had a shiny new purpose.
7. My friend got me a gift bag full of cheese. It was so gouda.
8. I decorated my gift bag with pictures of shrugging stick figures. It was like “meh, whatever.”
9. I wanted to recycle my old socks so I turned them into a gift bag. It was solefully upcycled.
10. I covered my gift bag in pictures of spiders. It was crawling with holiday spirit.
Gift Bag One-Liners
11. This gift bag is like my life – empty inside but still looks put together.
12. I’m more excited about the gift bag than what’s inside of it.
13. This gift bag is bigger than my future.
14. I’m all dressed up with nowhere to go…like this gift bag.
15. Handle this gift bag with care – there’s only one paycheck left ’til Christmas in there!
16. This gift bag perfectly matches my wrapping skills – crumpled.
17. Sorry for the lame gift, I put all my creativity into the gift bag.
18. This gift bag is like me – looks happy on the outside but dying on the inside.
19. The hardest part about re-gifting is finding a new gift bag.
20. I’m returning this gift solely so I can keep the gift bag.
Best Gift Bag Jokes
21. I was running late to my friend’s birthday party and didn’t have time to wrap her present. Luckily, the liquor store gave me a free gift bag when I bought her bottle of wine. It said “Thank you for your purchase. We hope you enjoy this gift bag.” She was so touched that I took the time to give her such a thoughtful and personalized gift bag.
22. My girlfriend’s love language is gift bags. It doesn’t matter what’s inside, as long as it’s wrapped in a cute bag with tissue paper. For her birthday I got her a used napkin and put it in a Tiffany’s bag. She said it was the most thoughtful gift I’ve ever given her.
23. I wanted to get my best friend something memorable for her 30th birthday. I went to the craft store and bought a plain canvas tote bag. Then I brought it around town and had all her friends sign it with their favorite memories together. It took a few weeks to track everyone down, but her reaction when she opened it made it all worth it. She broke down in tears and said it was the most heartfelt gift she’d ever received. All that…and I didn’t even spend a dime on an actual gift!
24. My grandparents are impossible to shop for because they don’t want any more things cluttering up their house. So one year for Christmas, I just wrapped up empty gift bags of different sizes and colors. I figured they could use them when they need to give gifts themselves. It turned out to be their favorite present that year. Now “gift bags” is the only item on their wish list every year.
25. One of my friends is obsessed with gift bags and has hundreds stockpiled in her closet. So I messaged all her friends and relatives asking everyone to wrap their gifts to her in grocery bags and newspaper this year. On Christmas morning, you should’ve seen her face when she didn’t get a single gift bag. After she realized it was a prank, she said it was the funniest thing anyone’s ever done to her.
26. I was really broke one year but still wanted to give my girlfriend something for Christmas. So I took an old gift bag I had lying around, filled it with her favorite snacks, added some mini liquor bottles, bath bombs from the dollar store, and a sappy love note. She said it was the most thoughtful “gift” she’d ever received and that it meant more than any fancy jewelry or gadgets.
27. One of my friends is a gift bag hoarder. She never throws them away and has turned her spare bedroom into a gift bag shrine. I decided to prank her one year for her birthday by collecting all the ratty old gift bags people were planning to recycle and wrapping her presents in those. She tore open each package hoping for a new bag to add to her collection but was so disappointed every time. I finally took mercy and gave her the real gifts wrapped in fancy new designer bags. She said it was the cruelest yet funniest joke ever played on her.
28. My husband is impossible to shop for because he’s a minimalist who doesn’t want any material things. So as a gag gift one Christmas, I wrapped up broken kitchen appliances, expired food, and other “junk” from around our house in the most elaborate gift bags and ribbons I could find. The contrast of beautifully wrapped garbage had us both cracking up. He loved it so much that now I have to come up with a new tacky yet thoughtful gift bag surprise every year.
29. One year my sister and I had a gift bag wrapping competition to see who could do the most over-the-top presentation. I’m talking massive bows, custom gift tags, enough tissue paper to suffocate a small animal. In the end, we determined it was a tie since no actual gifts could be discerned under all the embellishments. Our family still talks about the great gift bag battle of 2017 to this day.
30. I was on a tight budget one Christmas so I got creative with my gift wrapping. I took old newspapers and comics, discarded maps, fabric scraps from my sewing projects and somehow turned them into the most unique, handcrafted gift bags ever. Everyone kept the bags and commented on how thoughtful they were. Moral of the story: Being resourceful pays off!