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?

Just read this thread as didn't get a chance yesterday and loving the replies!

Some people have stockings on the mantelpiece so there's no having to wait til they're asleep and tiptoe in, but I remember the thrill of feeling the stocking heavy on my feet at the end of the bed on Christmas morning and wanted the DC to have that.

This will be DS1's last Christmas of believing though - we're going to tell him before he starts secondary school never year. 😢

Why wouldn't you NOT wrap stocking presents

I always used to so it with different paper to "our" presents. I did stop that thoughwen they stopped believing. Mine still get stockings and they're in their twenties. I've tried to stop but they insist it's their favourite but I'd Xmas!

Stocking presents must be wrapped! It’s part of the joy of Christmas. It’s like saying you don’t wrap the gifts under the tree because you’ve put them in a bag. Yeah, they’re hidden initially but there is no fun in opening them all at once. You must play the game of picking out which one you want and trying to guess what it is.

I always get wrapped stocking fillers! Way more fun as it’s done in your room. So for me and DP we get to unwrap fun silly things just us two before we go down to my family.

I genuinely thought everyone wrapped stocking gifts?

I always wrapped stocking gifts (apart from the hazelnut, satsuma and choccy Father Christmas) much more fun waking up to a heavy stocking on the end on your bed all crinkly and exciting at 2am

I wrap the gifts that are in stocking but not the chocolate or fruit

I always wrap stocking presents. It adds to the excitement.

My dh went one better in his heroics yesterday.
Started off with “winky, where is Margie’s gift?”
Margie is one of his elderly relatives. I had bought said gift —as I knew he wouldn’t— and had left it, in a bag, in the dining room.
At the moment of his asking, I was madly trying to wrestle, a poo covered, dd back into the mat to change her so I shouted through to him.
Much banging and crashing, huffing and puffing followed as he rooted through the single, solitary bag.
“It’s not there!”
“Yes, it is.”
“It’s not”
“It is”
“Oh I’ve got it. Oh, it’s not wrapped.”
“ Really! How interesting. The wrapping fairy must be late this year. There are loads of gift bags in the spare room.”

So off he trots. Ten minutes, later he reappears claiming that they are not there. They are. I know they are. They are in the same place that the gist bags have lived since we moved in, seven years ago!
Again huffing and puffing, banging and crashing follows, until he finally stomps down the stairs, like some kind of wounded, returning hero. Clearly expecting congratulations.
The whole thing is repreated as he searches for the cello tape.

He is ill today. Poor lamb! All that organisation obviously took it out of him.
I can tell that he is indeed very ill by the pained expression, regular sighing and poorly voice.

Nobody would convict me if I made him fucking airtight with gift bows.

Isn't that the joy of stockings that u don't have to wrap

To all those repeating 'why wouldn't you wrap presents', or 'you have to wrap presents' etc. It. Is. Wasteful. My tradition is different to yours - we do not wrap stocking gifts. DS' stocking is hung on his door. He wakes up and tips it on our bed. He us fucking delighted with his stocking gifts.

After lunch we open presents from under the tree. They are all wrapped. They are all (mostly) squeezed into his big red sack with his name on it.

A dear friend piles all the unwrapped FC gifts on the sofa for the dc to find - they are still delighted to find all these new things, regardless of wasteful wrapping paper.

Thinking about all that paper and sellotape just going in the bin makes me cry. So there we go.

What monster doesn't wrap stocking gifts??!??! Mumsnet I am so disappointed you're siding with dh on this.

It's a stalling technique people! When your kids are wrestling to open their very well wrapped stockings it will give you 20 mins grace period to crawl out of bed and put the coffee on.

What monster doesn't wrap stocking gifts??!??! THIS! The fun is doubled in both amount and duration by the wrapping.

I used to get lots of tiny random stuff overly wrapped. Still do if I'm lucky (I'm in my mid 30's ). I LOVE it.

I feel your pain though. I live with a sellotape hogger and a paper waster and a wrapping martyr.

Elquinto you can't take the moral high ground when you wrap all the other presents not just the stocking

sweet i wrap in bolts of fabric (huge gifts, like DS' trainset) and fabric drawstring bags for others.

Any gifts for ither children or that go through the post are wrapped in paper.

Gifts others have given DS will be in paper.

My son is 6yo, he's been flying with Christmas excitement for at least the last 2 weeks. The fact he is getting a pile of gifts to himself will make him happier than a clam.

He is getting in his stocking a small frying pan in the shape of a gingerbread man so we'll be having gingerbread man pancakes for breakfast. Simple things delight the pants off him - he won't notice or care it isn't wrapped.

A gingerbread man frying pan sounds amazing! I might have to look out for something similar for my little boys next year, @elQuintoConyo - they are 20, 22 and 24 but I am sure they would be delighted too.

Where did you get the gingerbread man frying pan?!?!?!?!

I searched gingerbread man frying pan on amazon and it showed me penis shaped frying pans... I don’t want that for my DD.

Gingerbread Man frying pan something like this but not cast iron.

Cost me 3 entire shiney Euros. I have paypal - perhaps i should take orders! They won't get to the UK before Christmas Day though

Definitely not one of these lolz

This seems pretty cool - good reviews.

Sorry OP for completely derailing your Fred

Three whole, shiny euros, @elQuintoConyo??!!

You extravagant woman, you!

They didn't have gingerbread man shaped ones, but Home Bargains and B&M sold little frying pans shaped as stars and flowers- small though!

Only your first link worked for me elQuintoConyo

Trying again with links...

xmas crepe pan