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 do both. Sometimes they are wrapped in stocking - slows
dCs down- sometimes not when I run out of patience and my "wrapping mojo" goes. Sometimes only a few in stocking are wrapped, definitely leaving the chocolate bars and sweets unwrapped, as I suddenly couldn't be arsed to wrap anymore bloody gifts!

So both you and DH are right in your own way. Does it really matter?!

All wrapped in tin foil, mine in 20’s now and has come to be expected it will be tinfoil.
Wishing you all a stress free day 🎄.

I never had a stocking growing up, wrapped presents were left in a pillow case - gifts from Santa (eg the bigs things we asked for), not what I think I understand by stocking gifts. So my kids don’t have a stocking either. My MIL gave me homemade stockings years ago and I still haven’t used them. My husband was no help when I asked him what I am meant to do with them. Seems too late now to ask MIL... Anyway, if I did stockings and if I understand correctly that they are filled with little trinkety type things then I would say that I would not bother wrapping those....life is too short

Wrapped.
I only decide what's going in the stocking when I'm bringing everything down

Tried unwrapped once.

Dc put in a complaint to the management

Oh and never use wrapping paper they’ll see elsewhere under the tree for example

@SpeckledyHen

Wrapped everything except chocolate 🍫 coins 🪙

And satsuma 🍊

Mine were never wrapped growing up, but my husband's were - so wrapped it is!

We wrap. Mine weren't wrapped until I was about 8 because it wasn't something which had occurred to my parents. Mum had the same conversation with a friend which you had with your DH and wrapped that year.

It was a huge step up in magical ness! It actually kept me believing for another year or two as it was the sort of thing my parents would never ever do!

You're (nearly) all mad. I'm so sad for your families having to have boring wrapped stocking fillers!

All wrapped apart from a chocolate orange, coins and a bag of sweets. Ours were always wrapped as children

I tried to wrap in special paper that was only used for the stocking but he found it so I said I bought an extra roll for Father Christmas to use especially (it's got his absolute favourite thing in the world on).

YANBU. Have you long suspected that your DH is weird?

All wrapped with special paper that was kept hidden all year. Slowed the opening frenzy down which was the main point.

We never wrapped stocking presents - too much faff. Stocking presents were lots of small things rather than large packages needing wrapping.

Don't wrap sweets but wrap other presents

Never wrapped anything in a stocking.

Normally yes but didn’t have any wrapping paper this year (lockdown). DD commented that she was glad that I didn’t waste paper wrapping them. I tend to reuse large gift boxes for larger gifts, saves time and money and the boxes look nicer.

Always wrapped! Every item done individually so there's loads to open. It takes my kids 90 minutes to open theirs, they take it in turns to open gifts and watch each other.

Unwrapped sounds really miserable to me. Where's the excitement?

Wrapped in last year’s paper, uncrumpled and saved for the purpose!

Half and half wrapped and not. The wrapped however is in newspaper as I can’t cope with the waste.

I'm shocked at how many wrap stocking fillers!! I always thought stocking filler etiquette was that you didn't wrap lol. You learn something new even on Christmas day 😆. You can probably guess ours aren't wrapped and I think I'll be continuing this tradition for the foreseeable! Gosh, growing up we NEVER even got stockings 😒

None of my presents were ever wrapped as child - I never had a stocking either.

DD has just unwrapped all of the presents out of her stocking

I never had them wrapped as a child so never thought to wrap them for my children. I didn't know wrapping stocking presents was a thing until I came on here

Wrap most. I don't wrap the clementine, chocolate coins or chocolate tube though. That's just faff I can't be bothered with haha.

@stayathomegardener those look so beautiful- did she like them?

Emphatically unwrapped here and genuinely surprised this is not the norm!!