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Original poster

To think the stocking is the wrapping ...

145 replies

MutedUser · 20/12/2018 01:12

Just that really friend horrified I’m not going to wrap my stocking fillers. She even wraps up the chocolate coins .

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WhatToDoAboutWailmerGoneRogue · 20/12/2018 01:13

I think YABU. I always wrap stocking presents and have mine wrapped too. It seems very can’t-be-bothered to not wrap stocking presents and takes a lot of the magic away.

Purpleartichoke · 20/12/2018 01:17

I have always wrapped in tissue paper just to slow DD down. Now that she is no longer a believer, we do stockings for the whole family, at her request. DH doesn’t want to wrap the items for my stocking. That leaves me with a dilemma. Continue wrapping dd’s to help draw out the process or keep everyone the same and unwrapped.

Mari50 · 20/12/2018 01:17

There’s already been a thread about this, seemed about 50/50 when I looked. I wrap my stocking gifts because otherwise it’s tipped out on the bed and there’s no suspense left after about 5 seconds. I don’t wrap chocolate coins though.

seventhgonickname · 20/12/2018 01:18

Needs wrapping except for the chocolate coins,satsuma and sugar mouse.

sittingonacornflake · 20/12/2018 01:19

Oooh I love the feel and sound of a stocking with wrapped presents in. Just a little touch of the stocking at the end of the bed in the middle of the night and you hear the crinkle of wrapping paper so you know Santa has been Grin

Makesmilingyourbesthobby · 20/12/2018 01:21

I wrap some & leave some others depending what item it is out of the stockings

mrbob · 20/12/2018 01:21

ALWAYS wrap! How else can you make it exciting for more than 10 seconds?

wurlycurly · 20/12/2018 01:23

I feel the same: the heavy weather ghtnof the stocking, the sound of the paper! Brings it all back! My husband’s family leave piles of unwrapped gifts downstairs!

wurlycurly · 20/12/2018 01:24

So many typos!

moredoll · 20/12/2018 01:24

Sorry, but YABU.
Everything wrapped, in special paper only Santa uses, except for the clementine, the chocolate coins and the sugar mouse (if you've managed to get one).

callymarch · 20/12/2018 01:26

wrap

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MutedUser · 20/12/2018 01:27

Oh well then wrapping it is. I feel like tissue paper might be a good middle ground then I can just scrunch it round job done.

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DramaAlpaca · 20/12/2018 01:42

I wrap absolutely everything. Always have & always will.

takes bloody ages but it has to be done

MrsTerryPratcett · 20/12/2018 01:43

It was never wrapped in my house and I don't wrap. DD doesn't tip out, she dips in.

And people banging on about 'magic'? Honestly. It's Christmas, not magical unicorn pixie day. It's about family, warmth, helping others and spending time together. Magic my arse.

BrexitDestruction · 20/12/2018 02:01

I've just finished wrapping ours. I can't see how it's as exciting otherwise? I can't imagine not wrapping.

KC225 · 20/12/2018 02:57

Yes, tissue for me. Scrunched, no ribbons or bows, and I do nor wrap the coins, satsuma or jar or nutella

IPromiseIWontBeNaughty · 20/12/2018 03:13

Wrapped

They line them up in the morning from very early & try & guess what they are while dh & I are still asleep. It adds to their excitement. They are 20 & 16. Wink

KipperTheFrog · 20/12/2018 03:34

I used to wrap, but not this year. Running out of time! Also, the waste of all that extra paper!

Juanbablo · 20/12/2018 04:20

I wrap everything!!

TakingtheLeap · 20/12/2018 04:37

The sugar mouse?? This is a stocking tradition? How have I spent 3 decades on this earth and not known that? (Especially as I'd love a sugar mouse?)

It's a vote for wrapped from me! Though my MIL doesn't wrap BUT the stockings are usually normal-sized socks very well filled, so extricating the items is a form of unwrapping in itself...

NerrSnerr · 20/12/2018 05:02

It's Christmas, not magical unicorn pixie day. It's about family, warmth, helping others and spending time together. Magic my arse.

Maybe to others it's about family, warmth, helping others, spending time together and magic?

Christmas should be about what each individual family wants it to be about not what a random on the Internet tells you what they think it should be about.

ShadyLady53 · 20/12/2018 05:08

Wrapped stocking presents are so exciting! Drags it out a bit too.

HollyBollyBooBoo · 20/12/2018 05:14

WRAP! If only to keep kids entertained for longer!

Pinkprincess1978 · 20/12/2018 05:44

Oooh I love the feel and sound of a stocking with wrapped presents in. Just a little touch of the stocking at the end of the bed in the middle of the night and you hear the crinkle of wrapping paper so you know Santa has been 

This!!! I have to admit I was sat with the sticking presents in front of my the other day and for a few seconds thought about not wrapping them.... then I gave my head s shake and got on with the job and I'm glad I did. The stocking is one of my favourite parts and my best memories of childhood Christmas'.

CountFosco · 20/12/2018 05:46

We don't wrap. I have to wrap enough presents as it is (our families send us unwrapped presents, guess who has to do all the wrapping of those), wrapping 3 lots of stocking presents would tip me over the edge! Mum never wrapped our stocking presents and it was completely normal to us. Dip not tip as a PP said. Takes long enough for them to open their stockings as it is!