Ever cut your wrapping paper too small? This super simple gift-wrapping hack can fix that – USA TODAY

It’s the holidays! That means our shopping lists are full and gifts we need to wrap are piling up.

Ever cut a piece of wrapping paper too small for the item you’re trying to wrap? You’re not alone. A viral gift-wrapping hack is here to help.

A video of a gift-wrapping trick that will help you salvage that seemingly-too-little sheet of festive holiday paper is making the rounds on social media.

In the video, a box appears too large for the piece of wrapping paper underneath it.

“Not enough? Rotate diagonally,” text on the screen advises.

Then, as if by a Christmas miracle, the box is shown being covered perfectly by the piece of paper.

The video, shared by user @chUckbUte, has garnered over 13.7 million views.

“You’ve got to be kidding me. After all these years…” he captioned the clip.

The video has also received dozens of positives replies.

“Thanks for changing my life, dear stranger!” user @jonathancsteele commented.

“What sorcery is this?  This is MAGIC,” user @TheMominatrixx said.

“Many wrapping papers gave their lives to my ignorance,” user @CamilleLarou joked.

According to the sharer, the video originally comes from the hack page “Blossom Hacks,” where the video has racked up 5.2 million views.

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