To think the stocking is the wrapping ...

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

Yanbu.
I've never wrapped stocking presents.

Wrapped! Apart from the chocolate coins and satsuma of course...

As adults I and my siblings still use our childhood stockings - but generally all our presents fit in there these days!!!

I just think they look nice under the tree and add some nostalga too

The stocking is the wrapping, I never had extra wrapping when I was a kid and didn't even realise this was a thing! Seems like a waste of paper to me. I wrap under the tree pressies obviously. YANBU

Unwrapped here (was same when I was a kid). Not going to start wrapping as thinking of the trees (plus really can't be arsed)

Only wrap actual presents. Food doesn't get wrapped.

All wrapped except satsumas. Even chocolate coins are wrapped. Weren’t wrapped as a child though, and I used to wish mine were. Hence the wrapping!

All wrapped here. Makes it a little more exciting. And I love wrapping so any excuse !

As a kid mine were always wrapped, except the chocolate coins and satsuma, cos you already knew they were in there I don't think theres anything wrong with not wrapping but it does make it more exciting!

I have not heard of some of these standard stocking fillers - Mice? Mangos?

I always wrap all stocking fillers except for the egg-whisk, pocket watch, and Oyster card (of course).

I employed a local teenager and her friend to do mine, cost £20 and they wrapped every last thing I had. Total and utter genius if I do say so myself. Was facing an all nighter Xmas eve (non sleeping kids mean I wouldn’t have started until midnight if previous years are anything to go by!!)

Omg Pumkin, that is complete genius. I will remember that!

Also going to remember the sweet bags idea.

My top tip that I read on here is to buy 2 identical stockings, fill one beforehand and let them take the other to bed or whatever they do with it and just swap them over when they finally go to bloody sleep. If they leave them downstairs, I guess you don't have that problem to start with.

@Muteduser, I can’t take credit! Someone mentioned it up thread. I just happened to have the bags left over from DC1’s 1st birthday party. She’s now 3

Having never had a stocking as a child I had no idea there are set gifts you're supposed to include?!

I always just put the small presents in the stocking. What is 'supposed' to go in?!

ittooshallpass I imagine it varies from family to family. We had a shiny coin, a nut and a satsuma. My dc always have a chocolate orange and chocolate coins. The rest of the stockings varies by age and interest of dc. It also probably depends on who brings what. Father Christmas only brings little things and parents bring main presents here (to avoid crazily expensive demands on FC).

Do a ‘Smiffy’ and use foil 😂

Laughing alot at egg whisk, pocket watch and oyster card

WHAAAAT, if course they have to be wrapped. I can still remember the sound of the rustle of the paper in stocking from when I was little. No fun at all just pulling unwrapped things out of the stocking!

Yup another smithy here. Tin foil "scrunch and done." But proper paper for non stocking gifts. Mum did foil too so I automatically did the same. Plus I love the sound.

Got to be wrapped. It holds the excitement for longer instead if just scanning what's inside.

I also think it depends what you put in it? Proper presents like dvds. Or party bag things. ?

I love the sweet bag idea. I love the stocking, I think its my favourite bit. Kids always bring them in to me and they open it on my bed.

Also would love a stocking.

Never heard of a mango in a stocking though.

We have chocolate coins chocolate orange and a potato or 2.

We wrap a few particularly special bits in each stocking - boys are 16 and 14 now so wrapped stocking presents are things like a new power bank, headphones, nice playing cards in a tin, reading light, small books. Dafter stuff just goes in unwrapped - jumping beans, smart putty, whoopee cushion etc. Everyone gets a chocolate santa, tangerine, nuts, red apple, chocolate coins and assorted toffees. Then each person gets a few edible bits to their taste, so fererro rocher star and truffles for ds1, sour jawbreakers and popping candy for ds2.

We have always done stockings for adults, even before the kids were born! My dad is 78 and it's lovely to see him getting excited about his stocking, he gets things like new banjo picks, sheepskin insoles, a new comb, Parma violets, a harmonica, kendal mint cake, peanut brittle. Bugger anyone who thinks adults having stockings is risible. Pffffffffffft.

I've never wrapped a stocking filler, my DC are 18 and 19 now. My stocking fillers we're never wrapped as a child either. I used to see the stocking as sort of a snooze button. Enough excitement and little gifts for them to play with together to keep them occupied until a reasonable time for everyone to get up for the main day.

Some bits wrapped, other bits not! Don't wrap the chocolate coins, candy cane satsuma etc. I won't wrap the fluffy toy that pokes out the top.

Ours were always like this. It's the first year DS will have a stocking (he's only just 2), he's got my knitted one that's easily 30 years old. My dh had never had a stocking, he's 40 and grew up in a very poor, borderline neglectful household. And its the first time its ever come up when i was talking about doing DS a stocking he said. So this year, his presents are in a stocking, wrapped.