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?

The best type is when they ask you for an idea for a present you rack your brains, come up with the idea, and they do two clicks, get it sent to you unwrapped. THEN you have to wrap the bastard!

The best type is when they ask you for an idea for a present you rack your brains, come up with the idea, and they do two clicks, get it sent to you unwrapped. THEN you have to wrap the bastard!

I've done this multiple times this year, for grateful siblings. If I've spent £50 on a gift they've asked for I don't think spending five minutes wrapping it for me is too much of an issue tbf.

I don't wrap them. I keep them in the box and hand them to ds to open. He gets enough wrapped gifts, I've never considered wrapping them. I'm grateful when they are sent.

I try to avoid doing it but I'm buying from abroad and sometimes a gift I want to get someone doesn't include a gift wrapping option. It's not my preference, but I'd prefer to get something that will be liked and appreciated.

For when this happens to us I have old gift bags and boxes on hand- they just go into those.

I have Amazon Prime soI often have it sent direct to the recipient, but I do tend to pay for gift wrapping. But we often get things for our DS from other people from Amazon that aren’t wrapped - I don’t mind if people don’t want to spend the extra £3 for gift wrap on top of postage and packing, it’s much cheaper for us to wrap the presents here.

I send direct from Amazon, my DN is happy to wrap for her children.

I don't get it at all, unless a person has problems with their hands and fingers, eg rheumatoid arthritis, why can they not wrap? Do they pay for the wrapping paper that you use? As said by other posters, it's different if something is ordered and sent from retailer who doesn't offer gift wrapping.

We do it sometimes, family live further away so it’s ordered directly to them obviously if I can have it wrapped before it’s sent that’s fine but if a company doesn’t offer it I can’t really do much. In some cases getting it sent to me to wrap n post would cost nearly £20 extra.. so that could either go to the gift budget or come from it.

Other times we’ve done and received it it’s been stuff to come from “Santa” so it was to get wrapped in the same paper and have the same writing on the tags as the rest.

With the deliveries though we book them to go to work addresses or somewhere the kids won’t clock it on the way in the door.

MIL bought DH a hamper from M&S - one of those where you buy the actual hamper and then fill it with stuff they'd like. Well. She delivered it, in a carrier bag. The cellophane and ribbon that come with the hamper are still all folded up under the food. And she still hasn't worked out after 48yrs that he doesn't like cheese and that you shouldn't put chilled dairy items in a hamper under someone's tree and who the fuck likes clementines in Armagnac the only alcohol is 2 x 20cl Prosecco and no, she's not hard up.

It's not just a hamper...etc etc..,

My MIL used to do this. She'd send stuff here for me to wrap, despite actually coming here for Christmas Day "just in case it snowed and they weren't able to travel". I work full time with this being my busiest time of year. There has never been a white Christmas here or at my PIL.

"I send direct from Amazon, my DN is happy to wrap for her children."

Are you sure about that? Because when asked I said "yes, sure, of course, not a problem, happy to!" but I thought "really? Really??! FFS!"

My late MIL used to do this - the people who do it always tend to be those with far more time than you but for some reason think you would just love to do this extra task. Strabgely she also used to knit items for the children - lovely - but she'd send all the pieces and ask me to sew them together into a jumper or whatever - bonkers !

I think it's the scale as well - one extra present to wrap? No problem! All your presents to my family, my sisters' families and my brothers' families, children and adults, all delivered to me for me to wrap and distribute? I'll do it, muttering darkly, but it won't be pretty!

This has reminded me of one lovely friend though who sent a gift to DC (unwrapped) but also included in her order a set of gift bags, so not only was it zero hassle for me, it gave me a bit of a stock

Because
Its an expensive con
The people that I send them to unwrap and re-wrap them.
The environment

But I now do what FlatheadScrewdriver's friend does and send/have sent reusable bags and ribbons.

We use Christmas gift bags here and we have been reusing them for the last few years.

It still looks nice, the gift is still a surprise but there is no waste (and it is an awful lot quicker and easier to do).

Gift wrapping at Amazon is expensive for what it is - especially if you are sending a few items as they wrap (and charge) for them separately. So I will do it for one item but not for several!

Gift wrapping at Amazon is expensive for what it is - especially if you are sending a few items as they wrap (and charge) for them separately. So I will do it for one item but not for several!

That's easy to say when it's your money but someone else's time!

(Can you tell I haven't finished wrapping yet?)

Well true! I'm more a receiver though than a sender - I wouldn't like to think that £16 of the present budget went on gift wrap!

its SHITTY to send gifts unwrapped asking you to wrap them, I hear ya OP.

My in laws asked me to get a gift for DD on their behalf.
I did and took it round to them weeks in advance.
On the day we saw them, they presented it to her in the carrier bag I gave it to them in. Not wrapped. Same bag.
I was opened mouthed.
So lazy.

My immediate family live abroad and do this, as does my granny who sends me money to get the children something little from her. My family just tell me to order something for them from Amazon and they put the money in my account. So, I wrap everything. I don't mind really. It is incredibly impersonal but they only see their grandchildren once a year so they don't have a clue what to get them.

Gift bags. I can't be arsed wrapping stuff!

I send gifts straight from amazon. It comes In a sealed brown box. If the recipient wants to wrap them then that’s up to them.

I will admit to losing my shit with a recently retired (ie not eldery) relative about 5 years ago when I was working night shifts in the nhs and didn't get a day off in December when she sent me gifts that needed wrapping/assembling for my kids and she didn't want to pay extra for the service

We've had this this year, very controlling family member has sent gifts (which obviously we're grateful for) with wrapping paper and instructions to wrap them. I've told them I have too much to do and planned not to wrap anything (doing tissue paper and gift bags instead) which she is very unhappy about. Wrap them yourself, FFS!