Why have you all stopped wrapping presents??!

[RudolphIsMySpiritAnimal]

No less than three sets of relatives have sent my kids unwrapped gifts with the request that I wrap them for them.

I mean, I will, and yes, I'm grateful they think of my DC - but when did this become a thing? I don't remember it happening in previous years. Surely wrapping the gift before you give it is part of the job?

Grrr totally with you! I am genuinely grateful to anyone who takes the time and thought to send anything. But please don't breezily assume I'll wrap it (looking at a certain distant relative of mine who sent all the gifts for 3 households to me to wrap and deliver onwards to their final destinations...) I have currently wrapped all of that lot but still not even made a start on wrapping my own.

My mother always used to do this. I found it very annoying. Mine all get money now, so nothing to wrap.

It’s better for the environment.

This year, 3 sets of relatives decided they would send me the money, so I could think about what to buy, go and find and purchase and then store and wrap all the presents for the kids!

My Nan does this every year. Gives me my families, my mums lot and expects me to wrap it all. It’s bags and bags filled with stuff 😂. She’s just told me today that she’s missed someone off the list, thank god I'm not seeing my mum til after Christmas, I’ll have time to buy it!

Sorry, just read that they expect you to wrap them. That’s not on.

It might be because Christmas paper gets ruined in the post, it gets creased and scrunched up as the air gets pushed out of it.

My Mother and I agree what she will buy everyone for Christmas then I order it all on Amazon prime to save the hassle of posting it all for her. She transfers me the money but then I have to wrap it all!

I think it's fine if they've ordered online and had them sent to you, no point in paying again for postage.

Just save gift bags you are given and pop them in there, or in a pillowcase.

Yes, I do this.

If I buy something from Amazon.uk, it makes sense to order and send it directly as adult DC live in London and I'm overseas. It would take much longer to go via our place to be wrapped and then re-sent. We still send wrapped presents from us too but the odd gift, we'll order direct.
We live very rurally and only shop in the main city about twice a year.

I think it's an online thing. If you order it to bedelivered then seems extra hassle to send to yourself, wrap and then post again. However I still think you should. Or some online places do it for you for a charge.

I used to get asked by my grandma to buy presents for everyone as she didnt know what they wanted and could be tricky. She was right which meant I spent hours thinking of ideas.

I didnt mind though. Think theres a point you earn an easier life and she was awesome in every other way.

Should add, after my parents divorce, my dad tried to get me to do it for him and I shut that down quick. Now he just asks people exactly what they want and from where. Actually works ok.

Well, I've done it (in recycled and recyclable paper Purpledaisies ) but I still think it's only half a job. I wrapped our gifts to them/their DC.

In two cases it's sort of excusable because they have young kids and work full time (though the same can be said of me!) but the third one is retired and constantly complaining of boredom!

I think it's fine if they've ordered online and had them sent to you

That's one thing if the person receiving doesn't mind it not being wrapped. But quite another if the person ordering online can't be bothered to wrap, or pay for gift-wrapping and expects someone else to do it for them.

My in laws have done this for a while. I mind less now they are older than I did ten years ago...!

Does strike me as a bit lazy

For those sending presents to people from amazon, they have an option for items to be gift wrapped! My dad always does this as he lives abroad and doesn’t usually come over for Christmas.
Sure it’s a bit more expensive but otherwise you are totally pushing that cost of wrapping on to someone else!!

It’s better for the environment.

How is asking someone else to wrap a present instead of doing it yourself better for the environment?

I understand how bit wrapping it all is better for the environment but handing a gift over and asking the person to wrap it for you has the same impact on environment had you wrapped it yourself?

Sorry purple, just seen you meant something else 😀

We have a reciprocal agreement with various friends and family members who live far away that we order their children's presents online (not necessarily from Amazon), have them sent directly and the recipient wraps them. It saves having to pay for postage twice. Doesn't bother me in the slightest - but then I'm not being disadvantaged, it's the same amount of work as if we wrapped our own and posted it. In fact less so as it saves a trip to the post office.

That's bizarre. I've personally never come across this but it would annoy me if I did. I wouldn't dream of asking someone else to wrap my presents for me, how lazy!

My in laws do this. They live abroad and either dump the presents on us months beforehand to store, wrap and present to the DC, or order something direct to us from Amazon. I found it so lazy and impersonal.
I told DH to have a word and they then provided the wrapping paper, completely missing the point that it wasn't the providing of wrapping paper that bothered me.

Never heard of people doing this, how strange!

At least they have got them something.
It makes more sense to send them directly if ordering online. Not everywhere offers gift wrapping and when they do it’s a lot more expensive than wrapping from a £1 Tesco roll.

Use a gift bag or box and reuse it if you can’t be bothered wrapping.

I don’t mind. They order online and have shipped direct to us. I wrap.

My sister and I often agree what we are each getting one another’s children and then go buy and wrap it ourselves to avoid shipping.