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Do you use same wrapping paper from Santa as previous years?

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Purpleskies46 · 22/12/2022 15:51

Do you use same wrapping paper from Santa as previous years?

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ODFOx · 22/12/2022 20:55

When I was a child I spent half of Christmas Day shut in the kitchen one year because I realised that the Father Christmas gifts were in paper I had bought (oldest child) and couldn't shut up about my discovery, while my younger siblings were nonplussed and still believers.
Thus, as Father Christmas, I provided stockings and unwrapped, be-bowed gifts. The bows were white and/or silver, while gifts from me were always wrapped in green, red and gold. The Father Christmas footprints were in silver glitter and the 'Magic Key' was on a silver ribbon.
Over the years they each came to understand but at no point did any of them twig on Christmas morning that our efforts overlapped with Father Christmas.

mondaytosunday · 22/12/2022 21:50

No it was wrapped in whatever paper, though I do reuse paper. In fact I did wonder if the kids would wonder why Santa had the same wrapping paper as us! But by the time they think of that sort of thing they are questioning the whole Santa concept, and it's a natural way of them figuring it out.

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