To think it's silly wrapping his present after he's tried it on?

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OH tried his jeans on and tracksuit to make sure it fits, he goes yeah you can wrap them up now. Is their really any bloody point?

Do people do this?

Yes. I'm getting underwear at Christmas and have tried it to see if it fits. It will get wrapped for Christmas day so I have something to open

Yes I'd wrap it up.

I'd still wrap it too x

Definately wrap.

Yes of course. Christmas presents should be wrapped.

Yes, definitely. I just gave my DH a whole box full of things I’ve tried on to wrap for me!

I would wrap it too. I tried on the boots dh is giving me, and he will still wrap them.

Yes. Furthermore, the recipient should also pretend to not know what the present is, and make several utterly ludicrous guesses. Then pretend to be monumentally surprised at the reveal.

I wouldn’t bother either. Put them in a gift bag if he insists but surely wrapping is for surprises and that’s the point?

I'd wrap them up but in boxes. So on the day he'll genuinely wonder where his tried on gifts are and what's in the giant box and tiny box under the tree!

Send it off to Santa and the elves will wrap it for you.

Yes! It's part of the fun, especially if it's a big present!

I made ds2 try on his Christmas eve pjs with his eyes shut

They always get pjs though so already there is no 'surprise ' there

I think it's pointless to do this. I thought the wrapping was to conceal a surprise gift, not just for something to unwrap on Christmas Day. Unless he reuses the wrapping, it is a total waste.

YANBU. totally pointless and wasteful, and just another job for you to do. Similar for those who buy their own Christmas presents and give them to their partner to wrap. Exactly who benefits from this charade?

But then I don't see the point of you buying him jeans and a tracksuit and then designating them as a Christmas present, especially once he's seen them, tried them on and probably chosen them too. This is just him buying clothes with added mental load. Christmas gifts for adults should be a token surprise and clothes, gadgets and other personal purchases done separately, as and when.

I'd wrap it up for him. Better to know now that it fits then finding out later.

I think that it is fun to u wrap things, even when I know what is inside the parcels - and it’s part of Christmas to have parcels under the tree. And what’s the alternative? Either you get the present as soon as it is bought, and have nothing to open on Christmas Day, or you bung the items under the tree in a carrier bag. Neither seems dreadfully festive to me.

I wrap stocking presents too - I started because it made opening the stockings last longer, when the boys were little, and I don’t want to stop nw, even though they are 21, 23 and 25 - and I do one for dh too, so I wrap upwards of 48 individual presents - so it is entirely possible that I am completely insane, when it comes to the subject of present wrapping!

I can u derstand if people don’t have the time or the energy for a lot of wrapping, in the run-up to Christmas, so a nice gift bag might be an easier option - and it could be kept and reused each Christmas too.

...fun to unwrap.. not u wrap - sorry.