To not see the point of wrapping presents?

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The paper is torn off, makes a mess and then gets put in the bin. I know they look nice under the tree but other than that is there an actual point to this tradition?

Dump them in a gift bag and put some paper on top- all done! That’s my go to 🤣

As a child, family presents were wrapped, but Santa Claus presents were not. Seemed like both a good demarcation and as an adult I see the brilliance of not wrapping everything!

I think you should have left MIL's present as it was, that was her choice. Fine for you to wrap your own individually if that's your choice.

I made my DC gift bags from an old duvet cover (with cars on, it was a kids duvet) so now we leave the bags out for Santa then he fills them. Super easy to 'wrap' and no waste! and still the enjoyment of un wrapping.

Use cloth bags or old scarves next year instead. So much easier than having to sellotape and better for the environment as they're reusable. Loads of lovely Christmassy patterns available.

I really love all the reusable wrapping ideas shared here.
We unwrap carefully and save as much paper as we can and use for the next year. We keep torn or very crumpled bits for pass-the-parcel wrapping for birthday parties.
I am now inspired to make some bags / cloth-wraps too. Might be a way to reuse some of the DCs' favourite outgrown clothes. They've got some very sweet prints.

The solution to this is a reusable big stocking or sack. I had one as a kid.

I am in the ‘I don’t believe in wrapping paper’ camp and am married to a man whose love language is gifts and have been nagged constantly for the last few days to wrap my presents for other people. So I wrapped his in the brown paper that was used to pad out the Amazon box the gift arrived in. I felt that was a good compromise.

Who pissed on your chips?

I send my sister gifts directly from Amazon sometimes and they come in cloth bags which I really like as a wrapping idea. I’ve seen presents wrapped in tin foil before, I’m pretty sure foil is infinitely recyclable (but maybe paper is too?).

In our house we always saved ribbon and bows to use again, it really pains me when someone rips them off and just chucks them away. Even now my brother and I give the same bows back and forth to each other every year until they fall apart 😂

I think wrapped presents is better. With a pile of unwrapped gifts, I feel like you would instantly make a beeline for either the biggest or most anticipated gift, and then it’s easier to ignore the rest. Unwrapping them all forces you to slow down and acknowledge the gifts one by one. I feel like it increases anticipation and excitement as well.

I think children can get overwhelmed unwrapping all their presents on Christmas morning, and would much rather play with what they've got instead!

We use gift bags and re-use them every year.

Is no one else just absolutely pathetically bad at wrapping presents though. I mean mine look like my six year old did it. I have a lot of dyspraxic tendencies and this is one of them. I simply cannot.

I feel like everyone else produces these beautifully wrapped and expensive looking gifts and mine are just a wreck.

Does my head in. Hate the stuff. Just a pile of mess. Have tried to move to bio-degradables like newspaper - which I like unless there is tape. Every year I swear I'm going to learn how to wrap nicely with reusable pretty fabrics, or just learn better no tape folding techniques. And then subsequently forget, until a year later.

how olds the kids? -when my ds2 was 2,3,4 i wrapped the living room door and tied an absolutely huge big bow on it...gifts were in bags (with tissue paper scrunched on top-so-"surprises"....(also was good cos when little they get overwhelmed and silly amount of stuff really-much easier to stagger over the day)

The first year we were together my DH bought me several gifts for my birthday. He had to go to work early that morning, so didn't see the look of disappointment on my face when I came downstairs to find my gifts laying on the sofa not wrapped. I was honestly quite shocked by it. Naturally I called him and thanked him, and we went out for dinner later, which was lovely, but I just couldn't get over him not wrapping my gifts. He went off to sleep due to another early morning wake up call, and I just lay there thinking about it, as I knew that if I didn't say anything it would always be done that way, but on the other hand I didn't want him to think I was ungrateful. In the end I went downstairs and wrote him a note explaining how disappointed I was, and that in future I would really like it if he wrapped everything, even if on the odd occasion, I did know what I was getting. As other's have said, it's just part of the anticipation, ripping off the paper to see what it's hiding. Since then he's ALWAYS wrapped everything, and it really does make a difference, so I don't think it's just kids who like it.

I think it's strange to leave presents under a tree from the 20th 🧐your kids must have incredible self-control not to take a peak. Surely most families leave presents in the night of 24th/25th?

That's quite an OTT reaction from an adult to unwrapped gifts. It's hardly anything to be shocked over

Wow 😳

I really love wrapping paper.. one of my favourite things about Christmas. I buy loads of different rolls in beautiful patterns and make sure every present is wrapped differently.. then they look lovely under the tree... I almost like looking at the wrapped gifts more than I like opening them. And I really enjoy receiving a beautifully wrapped gift

Point? Yes. It is that I care about you to make this present look beautiful and create excitement and wonder at what's underneath the shiny paper and pretty bow.
I remember paper from my childhood- and helping my mum every year til I took over. I love doing it! I love choosing the right paper and ribbon, the right tag. I can't resist buying more every year, even though I probably have enough for 100 Christmases.
Otherwise why bother with a tree? It's only going to get dry and drop needles and the pain of putting all the decorations away. Why bother with setting up a lovely table? It's only going to get messy and stained within an hour. Why even cook a nice meal? Why bother with Christmas at all? But we do, and it's delightful.

These rhetorical questions aren’t having the desired effect! Increasingly I am thinking yeah what IS the point!

You’re not still wrapping are you? You poor thing!

Honestly, I haven’t wrapped a single one