Should stocking gifts be wrapped?

I got some small velvet bags and I put things in those. Things like chocolate coins, sweets, Lego mini figures etc go in the bags. Anything too big for the bags goes in loose, but buried deeper in the stocking.

No way am I wrapping any more than is necessary. I don’t know how anyone has the time/will.

Yeah came here to add that for us, Santa brings the little things, and the big, expensive items are from mum and dad (and maybe other rellies too). Partly this is just because this is the way we did it when I was a kid, but partly also because I wanted to avoid questions of why Santa brought more/less for XYZ.

So they have plenty to unwrap, and a sack full of little bits not wrapped. Also they're far too old to believe in Santa lol but I'll do sacks until they're much older!

We do main presents from us and stockings are little things (some stuff that has now become a tradition to have every year). I come from a stocking wrapping household and DP from not wrapped and we have gone with his approach and it works well because it is all little stuff that would be a pain to wrap and also because we are really strict on one person at time to pull something out of the stocking so it still takes time to do. Saves the stress now they are older of having to source different paper so they don't question why Santa used the same design as mummy and daddy

Unwrapped but then I don't think I understand how lots of people on MN do stockings. My kids stockings have some Haribo, some chocolate coins and candy canes and some daft bits like scented pens and fluffy pencils etc. What at some people describe as stocking fillers on here are main presents in our house.

I learnt to wrap them in tissue paper, each person gets a different colour so less confusion if they tip them out together, easy to open for small hands and don’t always need tape.

Definitely wrapped. I've always quite enjoyed wrapping presents and don't find it a chore.

No, the stocking is the wrapping.

We wrap the four or five nicest things in each stocking, then the rest goes in unwrapped.

Absolutely the fuck not.

they’re in a stocking - that’s the wrapping like if they were in a gift bag

talk about making life hard for yourself

My mum didn't wrap our stocking presents but I definitely do wrap. Not every single thing as some chocolate articles are wrapped very nicely already, but all others get done. I use tissue paper in different colours and whack a festive sticker or piece of sticky tape to secure it, so they're not as neatly done as the tree presents but good enough. I think there is an extra layer of frisson with having a bit of wrapping hiding the item for a bit longer. And not because I bloody love wrapping, nope

No, we never wrap stocking gifts, only the gifts that go under the tree.

Never.
Only gifts under the tree are wrapped.

Unwrapped here.

Mine weren't wrapped as a child.

I wrap, but with less care and attention than for main presents. We use a print of paper that isn't used for other presents. We have small stockings that only fit 6-8 things.

We wrap nothing.

With a one year old, wrapped but with all the tags and any batteries already cut off/in the toy so the DC can play with the toy right away.

Wrapped but I use paper sweet bags in different sizes so really quick and easy: Paper Bags

I asked this question on Facebook once and it was my most hotly debated thread ever!

I wrap but get little Christmas gift bags to do it with. They’re just little paper pouches so it’s just a matter of shoving the thing in, and taping it closed. I swear by this method.

My annual argument with DH!! He says wrapped (as his were as a child). I say not (as the stocking is the wrapping - mine were not wrapped as a child).

Result is every year that he wraps all the stocking presents (in different paper for each child) while I do the others, and I am done long before him and put my feet up!

I wrap in tissue paper and am definitely not neat.
Makes the stocking crackle and also means that it's easy to remember what goes to each child.

No

I never had a stocking as a child. For my own DC, the presents are not only wrapped, but are labelled as coming from Santa, his Elves and sometimes from the Reindeer!

It’s a tradition that we started when they were very young, and to them, it’s the best part of Christmas (they are fully adult now!) The stockings were always left on their beds, inviting them to open these as soon as they woke up, and meaning that they’d come into our bedroom to excitedly announce that Santa had been (they always knew that their “big” presents were from their relatives - so these were the ones that had “come down the chimney”!). As they got older, they kept up the pretence and it’s very much a family joke!

The trick is to make sure that there is some consistency (E.g. chocolate coins, an orange Etc.) but to include some silly gifts and some useful ones (pens, toiletries and so on). I try to make up each stocking to about 10 items and that’s always the first presents they unwrap in the morning, leaving the main presents under the tree for after breakfast…

Our stocking gifts are wrapped in reuseable drawstring gift bags ... bought on ebay many years ago. They just get put to one side and put away with the stockings each year. Then when i pick up stocking fillers they go straight into the gift bags ready for distribution by santa on christmas eve x

No. The stocking is the wrapping.

The longer it takes the better - always opened on our bed so I’m sneaking in the zzzzz They love the anticipation!!