I hate gift wrapping with a passion and if I can't get them to do it at the time of purchase, I frequently get Gramma to do it for me. However, when not spending Christmas with Gramma, that solution doesn't work so well. Plan B is usually a gift bag. If no gift bags, a roll of duck tape will do nicely. If that fails, I resort to wrapping, but only if the item in question is square-ish or I can find a square-ish box to put it in.