The Tape Debate: where do you place it?

In my life so far, I have learned there is one very important dividing line to distinguish the type of person you are: are you a tape-on-er or a three-piece-er when it comes to wrapping presents?

The tape-on-ers maintain the view that in order to ensure a neatly wrapped package, a present-wrapper ought to secure the wrapping paper to the package itself at appropriate points. This ensures that the paper does not slip or loosen as the process moves along, giving crisp corners and a satisfying final product.

The three-piece-ers maintain the view that adhesives ought not touch the gift itself. A proper wrapping job will encase, but not stick to, the package within it. With exceptions for larger gifts, a box only needs three pieces of tape—one on the bottom, and two on the sides. Proper technique is enough to ensure the paper does not slip or loosen.

I am sorry to say this very issue currently divides my sister and me. How we have made it through so many Christmases wrapping presents side by side I will never know, let alone when we open the birthday gifts we have wrapped for each other! Every year we rehash the same points back at one another, but alas, we have found ourselves at a stalemate.

Are you aware of this debate? Have you faced it in your own life? How do you weigh in?

Would you share your best arguments for/against one side?

In case it isn’t reading well over the internet, this question is meant entirely as lighthearted and humorous mock-outrage. Go wild with your hyperbole and your melodrama, you fine jellies!