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I PAY MY BILLS WITH WRAPPING PAPER!

Diana Ford, 55, Adelaide, SA

Listening to the pages of a hardback book crunching, my eyes were glued to the computer screen.

Captivated as the video played, I watched the woman slowly and gracefully sliding her hands across the rough yellow-tinged paper.

I was instantly relaxed.

As the 20-minute video drew to a close, I turned to my hubby, Warren, whose eyes were fixated on his own video.

‘Wow!’ he exhaled.

Both immersed in YouTube, we couldn’t believe our eyes.

I loved trawling the online video sharing site for cooking or gardening clips, but

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