Does better gift-wrapping lead to high expectations?

>> home for a long time. it's very disappointing if i can't get home.

>> maybe a delay. i said delay. i didn't say cancellations.

>> three, four days, you'll be out of here. no problem.

>> you're going to take care of me then.

>> we're all lucky we're sitting here at all.

>> i know. please.

>> it's the end of the world

>> the world ended a matter of hours ago.

>> if this is the afterlife, no, thank you.

>> all right!

>> spending it with you.

>> it's very disappointing, after all that. today was supposed to be the end of the world , 5,000-year cycle on the mayan calendar ends today, mythological. the mayans never said it. it became a pop culture thing. here we are, the world has not ended.

>> i think we are thinking we're going to think differently now. i think that's the cycle. it's a new cycle. i'm going with that.

>> does it change things for you at all?

>> oh, yes, willie, and you will find out.

>> oh, well.

>> it means nothing.

>> are you doing anything differently?

>> no.

>> now that we're in a new era?

>> no. are you? anyone?

>> i had bacon and sausage for breakfast.

>> you don't know how odd that is. that is the apocalypse.

>> i know. i'm like i'm going to enjoy my last piece of bacon and sausage too.

>> that is a sign that the end is near.

>> i know.

>> there were people looking yesterday to have sort of final encounters, saying let's go for it.

>> final encounters?

>> romantic final encounters.

>> that's right.

>> that's interesting.

>> getting bombarded with phone calls , released, put out a video statement saying here is why the world is not ending today. not to worry, folks. you're all going to be around for more centuries to come.

>> well, maybe we won't be.

>> for better, for worse.

>> take two, aan important one. wrapping. gift wrapping . so, giada, come on up here.

>> it's tedious.

>> am i coming, too?

>> yes.

>> holding my ornament over here.

>> this calls into question what they're studying in the higher halls of education. but harvard did a study at gift wrapping . if you look at a gift that's better wrapped you have higher expectations. take the one that's a little more rough and tumble .

>> i like the wrapping on this. very natural and organic here.

>> if you were to pick a gift of higher expectations, you would probably look at this and say, ooh.

>> sure.

>> that's going to be a good one.

>> that's fancy.

>> i love newspaper. it's cool and different.

>> and people know how far behind you are.

>> exactly.

>> hey, look, she wrapped that two weeks ago.

>> that said, there's got to be a really good gift in this one now, based on that study. and less is more.

>> when i was little, my brother was seven years older. he would say, savannah, will you help me wrap my presents? i would say yes, of course. and five minutes later, christmas morning , he would say, here's your present. he made me wrap my own present.

>> are you kidding?

>> cruel.

>> we have to get to our taker. do you have the ornament?

>> i was holding it for so long.

>> a very special christmas ornament . one particularly caught our eye. take a close look of who is on there. mr. matt lauer .

>> they were very generous with the hair.

>> with this part.

>> the follicle situation.

>> you can get them at bloomingdale's, 40 bucks each. a lot of different celebrities have done this.

>> did you get one as well?

>> no.

>> i did one last year. proceeds go to the child mind institute , helping kids improve mental health care.

>> rachel zoe all have their own ornaments.

>> let's wrap those up nicely.

>> wrap them in tissue paper.

>> merry christmas .

>> you, too.