Wrapping your own christmas presents?!

[Thickums]

Am i being unreasonable to think wrapping tour own presents is futile and pointless?

A few people i know buy their own christmas presents from husband/parents etc. Then proceed to wrap them and put them under the tree, get the money back from loved ones, and then unwrap them on xmas day.

I just don't get it. Doesn't that take away the magic completley?
The whole point in them being wrapped is you don't know what your getting! So unwrapping them gives the excitement!!

Do you act suprised when unwrapping what you wrapped and bought yourself?
Doesn't it feel silly when everyone knows you wrapped and bought it yourself?

My boyfriends the same! One of my boyfriend's christmas presents he was with me when i bought it. Its come in a box. He helped me carry the box. Its been sat in my spare room for 2 months so hes seen it a million times. But yet wants me to wrap it and put it under the tree when he chose it himself and helped carry it in!

I'm no scrooge either. I love christmas and still do stockings etc. But theres no way id go buy my own presents and then wrap them up and then reopen what ive wrapped up and act all suprised. Its just bizzaire and i can't get my head around it!! Also its a waste of paper. But talking to people it seems pretty common!!

Please someone explain the mentally behind this so i can understand as it seems so illogical i don't get why anyone would do it!

To be honest Thickums I'm not much into 'the spirit of giving'. I like practical gifts (last year I got a frying pan, this year we're buying each other bar stools for our new kitchen) and I like them wrapped, by me cause I enjoy that bit, and looking pretty by the tree.

I know I'm not normal and I don't care. And I will wrap the barstools. I wrap everything, I wrapped an ironing board for my daughter's* birthday last week .

*she totally takes after her mum both in favouring practical gifts and in the wrapping obsession, she's the only family member who does it 'right' apart from me.

@Thickums no because I enjoy wrapping presents and like seeing them under the tree. To be honest having to buy your own Christmas presents is pretty depressing whatever way you look at it! At least I always get what I want though!

And I think my son would be pretty upset if I didn’t have anything to open on Christmas Day.

I also buy and wrap presents for and from our pets!

i'm also a single parent who wraps pressies to myself.....that way on xmas morning the kids and I take turns to open a pressie and ooh and aah over it.
it also means the kids can give me a gift - they are too little to go shopping by themselves and no-one has offered to take them...
no its no surprise - but i actually prefer the carefully chosen gifts - i've had 5 bars of chocolate before...all wrapped separately by ex. utter shite.

I have bought my own presents this year. DH will wrap them though. We either make a list or go shopping together.

We pool our finances so its probably silly to even swap gifts when they are being paid for from the same account but it's in the spirit.

Its so nice to think 'omg so and so remembered i love that book/album etc' or 'so and so knows me so well, ive always wanted to do such and such, how did you know?

Tbh, if either of us want something, we buy it. We don't have to wait for Christmas in the hope that the other will remember a ruddy book we mentioned in September.

I'm not one for big gestures on birthdays or Christmas. In my experience, men that make big gestures 2 days a year are largely shit for the other 363 days.

I understand people wanting children to see them opening their presents as it seems fair.

Some people are really rubbish at getting presents like my Dh, so I've often chose my own presents while at the shop with him but I wouldn't wrap them myself. on my bday this year I knew he hadnt organised anything so a week before I mentioned it's my birthday and shall we go shopping together. i said about where the wrapping paper is, hint hint but he still didn't bother to wrap. We had a big argument about how I make an effort for him and he doesn't make an effort for me.

this Christmas he has bought his own presents which I may or may not wrap, while he is buying me presents from a vague list so he's not completely clueless. he will then go out and buy nice wrapping paper and wrap the gifts so I have surprises waiting under the tree while he has none.

I may still relent and get him a wonderful surprise before the big day but I also want him to know what I've been feeling these last few years!

oh well, his birthday is not far away so can make up for a rubbish Xmas then. depending on how well he's done with making effort for me...

I buy myself presents from DH, with his money, then give them to him to wrap. I give him the wrap and ribbons and tell him how I want it wrapped too. I think I have a control problem

In my defense he works ridiculously long hours, travels and lot and is rubbish at shopping. If I say I like something it is inevitably sold out by the time he gets around to buying it. This way I get what I want at least.

@BusyBB please don't wrap his presents!! Its important he knows how you feel so he doesn't repeat it again knowing the backlash.

I hope he makes a real effort for you this year instead of sitting back and reaping the benefits of your hard work!