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Quick Holiday Tips
Aired December 09, 2003 - 05:57 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: With the gift giving season upon us, everyone is looking for quick holiday tips.
For the complete wrap, we turn to none other than Jeanne Moos.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's the Grand Prix of gift wrapping.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Ready, set, wrap.
MOOS: But you'd better be gifted to wrap items ranging from a cowboy hat to skis while being timed.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: One minute remaining.
MOOS: The makers of Scotch tape sponsor the contest, a contest where a hat can be turned into a flower pot or a Christmas tree, where a box becomes a vest, where skis and poles end up more tangled than they do on the slopes.
MATT DENTON: I was thinking of a tic-tac-toe board. I did the Xs down the center.
MOOS: Matt Denton is a department store gift wrapper. But some contestants were amateurs, like Brook Rheinhart (ph), who's even wrapped her dad's mustache.
BROOK RHEINHART: One new year's, to be a little festive, what we did was tie balloons to his mustache.
MOOS: Most folks can recall something odd they've wrapped.
LAURA RUNGE, CONTESTANT: Probably deer antlers.
MOOS: From antlers to cars.
LUCINDA USHER, CONTESTANT: But they tied a yarn to something in the house and they have to go and follow the yarn down the block, and at the end of it was the car.
MOOS (on camera): What's the weirdest thing you've ever wrapped?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The weirdest thing? Well, that would probably be you. We're making you look really good now.
MOOS: Get on my knees?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes.
MOOS (voice-over): But what the two finalists had to confront was a recliner. Try wrapping one of these in 15 minutes. The winner was Kim Tuccitto, a part-time department store wrapper who teared up. You would, too, if you won 10,000 bucks. Not bad for a wrap star who estimates the number of gifts she's wrapped to be...
KIM TUCCITTO: Twelve thousand.
MOOS: Her husband says her presents are too pretty to open. But that didn't stop us.
TUCCITTO: They got to wrap the Lazy Boy.
MOOS (on camera): Yes?
TUCCITTO: And I got to lace -- wrap the Lazy Girl.
I can't get it.
MOOS (voice-over): Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
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Aired December 9, 2003 - 05:57 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: With the gift giving season upon us, everyone is looking for quick holiday tips.
For the complete wrap, we turn to none other than Jeanne Moos.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's the Grand Prix of gift wrapping.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Ready, set, wrap.
MOOS: But you'd better be gifted to wrap items ranging from a cowboy hat to skis while being timed.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: One minute remaining.
MOOS: The makers of Scotch tape sponsor the contest, a contest where a hat can be turned into a flower pot or a Christmas tree, where a box becomes a vest, where skis and poles end up more tangled than they do on the slopes.
MATT DENTON: I was thinking of a tic-tac-toe board. I did the Xs down the center.
MOOS: Matt Denton is a department store gift wrapper. But some contestants were amateurs, like Brook Rheinhart (ph), who's even wrapped her dad's mustache.
BROOK RHEINHART: One new year's, to be a little festive, what we did was tie balloons to his mustache.
MOOS: Most folks can recall something odd they've wrapped.
LAURA RUNGE, CONTESTANT: Probably deer antlers.
MOOS: From antlers to cars.
LUCINDA USHER, CONTESTANT: But they tied a yarn to something in the house and they have to go and follow the yarn down the block, and at the end of it was the car.
MOOS (on camera): What's the weirdest thing you've ever wrapped?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The weirdest thing? Well, that would probably be you. We're making you look really good now.
MOOS: Get on my knees?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes.
MOOS (voice-over): But what the two finalists had to confront was a recliner. Try wrapping one of these in 15 minutes. The winner was Kim Tuccitto, a part-time department store wrapper who teared up. You would, too, if you won 10,000 bucks. Not bad for a wrap star who estimates the number of gifts she's wrapped to be...
KIM TUCCITTO: Twelve thousand.
MOOS: Her husband says her presents are too pretty to open. But that didn't stop us.
TUCCITTO: They got to wrap the Lazy Boy.
MOOS (on camera): Yes?
TUCCITTO: And I got to lace -- wrap the Lazy Girl.
I can't get it.
MOOS (voice-over): Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
