To leave my DH to wrap the stocking presents?

[Growingboys]

Ok every year for the past dozen we've had kids, I've done the wrapping (and the choosing and the buying obvs). My family, his family, stockings, and this year is no exception.

(The poor martyr does manage to wrap what he gives me though - exhausting, I know)

Tonight we sat down to wrap the stockings - brown paper, crap wrapping's fine: not too taxing- and he proved himself unable to share the sellotape. It has to be near him as he needed it all the time.

Ditto the scissors.

He wrapped in a very loud, self-conscious, heroic way. This being the first time he has wrapped anything other than the odd thing he gives me, it must be a real challenge and perhaps I am not recognising his genius at rising to the occasion.

On the 15th attempt to reach for the sellotape, as he sighed at my annoyingness, I said ok, you're the wrapping king. You do it all.

(Three fucking stockings worth)

Now he is wrapping SO loudly, with SO many martyred sighs, I just want to kill him. But to rile him even further, I am lying in our bed in full relaxation mode, reading MN on my phone to signify that fact and to fuck him off.

AIBU?

I love being single. YANBU

Why wrap stocking presents? Shove them in a sack... Job done.

Na. You enjoy the peace guilt free

You get on with it!

YABU to wrap stocking fillers. That's bloody insane!

You made the problem by ever buying and wrapping his families gifts.

Leave him to do his share.

Enjoy your MN lie down, he'll survive. Even if he gets a few paper cuts.

You wrap stocking presents? Wtaf?!

I never wrapped stockings but our first xmas was at his parents and so we did it then and have done ever since.

Agree, it's bloody ridiculous.

He is now in bed with his light out, recuperating and hoping it'll be another decade before he has to exhaust himself like this again.

First ive heard this...do you wrap stocking presents. My dsis and i never had them wrapped when growing up. (Misses point)

YANBU
I do all this in our house. I'm stealing this plan for next year as it seems to be going so well

Yabu to wrap stockings.

Sorry, I just can't get past that. You should have knocked that on the head years ago. Unhelpful I know.

My DH not only wraps stocking presents but has to have a separate secret roll of paper so the DC don't wonder why Santa also gets his from Sainsburys...

at loud, heroic wrapping

And everyone whole doesn't wrap the stocking presents, YABVU - the joy is in it all being a surprise and it prolongs the experience. We were incredibly poor when I was a child but we always got a stocking full of wrapped things and the excitement of unwrapping each one (and the rustling of a full stocking against my feet on Christmas morning) was better than anything else about Christmas for me as a child.

The BEST tip you will ever see re: stockings is coming up...I read it on here ages ago but never seen it since.

Buy two identical stockings for each child. On Xmas eve, take away their stocking and quickly change for the other, which you have pre-packed in your own time days before.

Totally transformed the stress and rush of Xmas eve for us, it takes seconds before bed. You're welcome 😁

Anonymous amen to that. You can do a similar thing with teeth/tooth fairy money - get two identical little purses/plastic envelopes, get child to put tooth in one and then just substitute the other with cash in. If you can convince DC that leaving the tooth one on the bedside table is kinder for the busy tooth fairy, so much the better.

Our stockings are always on the bottom of the stairs, we have a square stair then a turn, with a lovely bannister, and so we don't have to sneak stockings in/out/into bedrooms.

I wrap stocking presents, in fact, I wrap (after having bought) every present other than mine. 6 hours on Friday night, finished at 3 in the morning.nstiol another batch to wrap!

Anonymous my tip is:

Tell your DC Santa isn't real so when you're wrapping their gifts and they poke their heads in you can say "oi get out I'm wrapping your stocking gifts" thus saving any need to sneak about in elaborate ways.

You're welcome.

Sisinisawa I bet you feel really clever now as well...

I'm very pleased to say that DP is wrapping all of the presents except his own, though he actually would've done that one as well.

We also decided together what we're getting DS so I actually have nothing to complain about.

DP does the theatrical sigh sometimes, it makes me and I refuse to then help on principle even if otherwise I would've mucked in.

50% wrapped, 50% stuffed into the pairs of socks they get. Matching the socks afterwards keeps them quiet for roughly 60 seconds longer....

Another one who wraps stocking presents. With different paper.

Wow, not wrapping them is mind blowing! Dh insists on different wrapping paper for stocking presents that the children must never glimpse between Christmases. If I mention what a waste of energy this is, we're back to the argument about me trying to replicate my crappy childhood for our dc/ ruin his Christmas.

I wrap. Has to be unseen paper.

I also wrap all of them. We don't get the dc a huge amount of presents and they are still at the age that the unwrapping is fun. They also have different hidden paper (and separate type of paper)
I've done all the present wrapping (and most of rhetoric buying) I've not told dh they are wrapped and am curiously waiting to see when he may ask 'shall we wrap the presents'. My guess is Saturday or possibly Sunday morning

I can't believe people don't wrap the stocking fillers! You've got to wrap. It prolongs the excitement. And it has to be special paper that they haven't seen. In previous years I have done 3 different papers but this year I've done the same paper and kept the presents in labelled bags to quickly dump into sacks on xmas eve.