WIBU to not wrap the stocking fillers?

[PoesyCherish]

There's just so many little bits and bobs and it's such a faff wrapping them all and then they never fit in the stocking properly because of the extra paper. WIBU to not wrap them?

Stocking presents are already wrapped - by the stocking! It's like a gift bag.

Wrapping them is ridiculous and just creates more unnecessary waste (which will end up being our kids' problem, not ours). You think of a selection box in the stocking - it's already got chocolate bars individually-wrapped, then in a plastic tray in a card box, then in a fabric or felt stocking. That means each piece of chocolate is already protected and covered by four layers! Three of which will be thrown away. That's plenty of wrapping to slow the kids down. You don't need to add an extra throw-away wrapping.

I don’t wrap stocking fillers (unless they are too big to it in the stocking!). Stocking fillers always include something like small Lego models or wind up things to keep them a bit occupied (still the same even though they are all adults now!)

The stocking is the wrapping.

When I was a child my favourite part of Christmas was the stocking, and nothing in it was ever wrapped, except the satsuma in the toe.

I wrap with tissue paper-it bulks it up and half the fun is unwrapping.

Never do. My DM always did, even as a child I was a bit about it...

Always wrapped here when I was little, except the satsuma, chocolate coins etc. I'll wrap with tissue paper for DS.

Definitely stealing the idea of putting a carton of juice in, that's genius! I might stick an individual brioche too and then there's breakfast sorted!

I never knew wrapping stocking fillers was a thing!

My DD gets a stocking full of (unwrapped) little gifts which she opens in bed with Us on Christmas morning, these are usually small, fun things that I never would think to wrap. We then unwrap presents from under the tree after breakfast. I only wrap the proper presents that we put under the tree.

My stocking gifts when I was a child were never wrapped either!

What sorts of things do you put in stockings that need wrapping??

What sorts of things do you put in stockings that need wrapping??

Literally everything gets wrapped...chocolate coins, socks, books, pens, toys, stickers, selection box...all of it!

I wrap everything, even the satsuma, in shiny paper. I think it makes it much more exciting, and it doesn't take long.

DC always tip the stocking contents out onto the bed and then ooh and ah at the shiny parcels .

I tend to save the wrapping paper rather than throw it away, so it isn't unnecessary landfill. We made some paper chains with last year's.

My DC are teens now and I still wrap their stocking presents. They still do what they always did when they were small - empty out the stockings into piles, and they look for ones that are the same size and shape - they often had the same type of gifts - and then they would open them at exactly the same time. When they'd done the similar looking presents, then they would open the ones that didn't match their siblings'.

What???? Of course you should wrap. My wrapping looks like a bears arse but I always wrap everything even the annual tube of smarties.

Like PPs, I don't wrap chocolate, satsuma, etc, but I do wrap anything that might count as a present such as pants, DVDs, pack of cards, and so on. And even though they're late teens/twenties, it has to be in different paper to whatever I've used under the tree!

My mum never used to wrap stocking presents and I used to love it. However,we wrap stocking presents as DH insisted because that's what his parents did and he thought that it would take the fun away from it.

I wrap them in secret paper (different to the rest I use) that I've hidden to prove the stocking is from Santa. However; now that DS is 15, maybe I should stop doing it.

Father Christmas doesn't wrap in our house which is a step up from when I was little. He didn't bother even taking price tags off then.

Wrap! The crunchy feeling of the wrapping paper in stocking is magical!

I don't wrap stocking presents. Still takes the kids a good half hour. I put things like a kinder egg, one or two blind bags, chocolate coins and a little teddy in theirs. They pick things out one by one

My DS used to think that Santa was in partnership with the shop Tiger!

My mum used to wrap ours but I'm trying to cut down on waste so won't bother wrapping the stocking presents - they can close their eyes and stick their hand in to grab a present . Tipping them all out sounds weird - why bother putting them in a stocking?!

Tissue paper all the way
no sellotape

I've always wrapped stocking fillers (with special red paper ) TBF my youngest has autism and at 21 still believes in Santa so we had to have special paper til 18 when Santa stops and Mum takes over stockings.

Mine are now 21, 24,25,26 and they still get wrapped stockings...as do partners It takes time, sure but they still love it, even when it's daft stuff like make up brushes, or beard oil!
And they still drag them to our room to open them!!!!!

Definitely stealing the idea of putting a carton of juice in, that's genius! I might stick an individual brioche too and then there's breakfast sorted!

Ooh this thread is making me nostalgic about discovering and then emptying the stocking on Christmas morning as a child. Such a magical feeling! I think our bits were mostly wrapped in tissue paper wrapping but things like choc coins etc weren’t. I remember waking up in the early hours and being so excited seeing shapes sticking out of the top of the stocking in the dark and trying to guess what it could be.

Can’t wait until my DC are old enough to enjoy stockings! (Just realised that sounds a bit odd!!)

As a kid we didn’t have stockings so I’m feeling my way through it with DDs first Christmas (I know she won’t remember but I want to make it a tradition) I have wrapped her ‘gifts’ 😂 by gifts I mean things she was going to need anyway, all of her weaning bits and bobs

The russelly feeling of a full stocking on the end of the bed is one of my favourite Christmas memories.
I always got a torch (although often it was the same one just popped in the top!) So I could look through my stocking under the covers in the middle of the night.
Nothing wrapped though. For DD (when she's bigger) I might put everything inside individual (new) socks so it's a giant sock full of socks full of presents. I don't think I'll bother this year though as she's only 6 months.