To ask whether you wrap stocking presents

[BrowncoatWaffles]

DH and I having a lighthearted slightly gin-fuelled bicker as we sort the kids’ stockings.

Chez Waffles growing up all stocking presents were wrapped.

Chez DH they were not.

Of course my suggestion prevails —because I do most of the work— so our DC’s stocking presents are wrapped (albeit in tissue paper and loosely).

DH is in a grump about this and thinks it’s ridiculous even though he sees my point that it slows the DC down opening things. He just said: “This is just a weird Waffles family thing. I’m going to ask people at work whether they do this.”

Why ask people at work when you can ask a bigger sample?

So:

YABU - wrapping stocking presents is lunacy
YANBU - at course stocking presents are wrapped

I used to wrap them, I don’t any more. Partly because I’m lazy and partly because my kids take forever to unwrap things. Anything that’s too big for the stocking gets wrapped.

yes most stuff wrapped apart from sweets and chocolates but in silver foil. mum did so assumed everyone did!

When I was a little girl, Father Christmas not only left the stocking gifts unwrapped, but he usually left the price stickers on too!

These days he has moved on and removes the prices, but he still hasn't learnt to wrap. 😁

@stayathomegardener

Dd is 21 but Father Christmas still brings hers wrapped

@stayathomegardener they're beautifully wrapped! Love it!

@BrowncoatWaffles i wrap the stocking gifts 😊

We wrap stocking gifts. Slows down the dc and means they actually look at it all instead of dumping it all out and moving on to the next thing.

I honestly didn't know some people didn't wrap the stocking presents! 🤯🤯

DD is only just 2 so we're still figuring this out... this time we wrapped but if I had been feeling lazier I might not have. I didnt have a stocking growing up just a big sack of presents:)

Never wrapped! I remember the glory of untying my santa sack and seeing the jumble of exciting stuff inside. It always included small stuff like hologram sellotape, chocolate animals, a light-up yoyo etc, temporary tattoos, sparklers etc. Surely nobody wraps those?!

I'm eating Santa's mince pie as I write this, and DS's sack of unwrapped gifts is awaiting his appreciation in the morning.

Always wrapped in special paper that they never see and is never used for anything else. I bought giant rolls of it so it’s the same every year as well. I don’t wrap the sweets, chocolate coins and satsumas though.

I don't wrap the satsuma, choc coins, any other sweets, or things like Lego blind bags, but everything else is wrapped. Like others, I also have special hidden paper that is reserved just for the stocking presents.

I'm going against the grain but we don't wrap stocking presents. I'm not prepared to wrap a bottle of nail varnish, chocolate coins, a bar of soap or twenty other small things.

Mostly unwrapped, mainly because dc2 is a year old and I can't face him trying to unwrap things as soon as I wake up... I'm pretty sure he'll just shout for chocolate coins anyway. Stockings are mostly a way to slow the 5yo down while we're still half asleep.

I never had a stocking growing up, possibly because me and db weren't super early wakers and dh didn't because his parents barely bothered with Christmas (and forgot his birthday more than once! They were shit).

Unwrapped, though I appreciate the extra time that unwrapping can give adults come morning.

Mostly wrapped. Not the clementine.

I wrapped for mine. Agree with others that the chocolate coins and satsuma are left unwrapped.

I did somewhat regret starting an expectation of them being wrapped, especially near midnight on Christmas Eve when still most of them to go.

I voted YABU, to me a stocking is lots of small nice things e.g. nail varnish, toy car etc. and the fun is delving into the stocking to find out what’s inside!

Also, (I know IABU ) but I think “sacks” are just awful!! Talk about greed and present overload! What’s wrong with a stocking?

@Angel2702

Always wrapped in special paper that they never see and is never used for anything else. I bought giant rolls of it so it’s the same every year as well. I don’t wrap the sweets, chocolate coins and satsumas though.

Pretty much this - these each have special paper which isn't used for anything else and every stocking present is wrapped in it. Presents under the tree are from us and wrapped in a different paper.

This!

DH and I have exactly the same argument every year! I like to wrap, he doesn't. I win because I sorted out all the presents!

my “This” was meant to post with a quote saying something like - Dont wrap & didn’t know it was a thing.

Father Christmas surely too busy travelling the world and swinging sherry to wrap every gift.

This is the first year (they are 19 & 22) I haven't wrapped stocking stuff and that's because all that's in them is chocolate and satsuma.

That’d be swigging!

Ours were never wrapped growing up. We had pillowcases and they were always stuffed full to bursting but everything was fairly small; socks/ underwear, books, toiletries, sweets, chocolate, small play sets (Eg: Lego, playmobil), stationary, jewellery, hair accessories etc. I’m not surprised ‘Father Christmas’ didn’t want to wrap 30+ small, fiddly things for each of us. Presents under the tree were always wrapped but never the items in our stockings.

Some wrapped, some not.