Do you wrap stocking presents ?

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I always intend to but end up not bothering. I was contemplating buying some tissue paper this year so I can do a half arsed job of it

Always wrap. Makes more of a surprise.

I did when I had one child.

Now I have 4, I don't

Also always wrap - part of the magic for DCs is in the unwrapping

I do, but in different paper from the stuff I use for family and friends. It is half the fun I think, poking and prodding and shaking. I don't wrap sweets or fruit though.

Oh yes. No question!

No, Santa has no patience time for wrapping.

I used to, but now I have 3 kids and 0 energy I don't bother. It's also more environmentally friendly of course .

My other problem is that I always seem to end up wrapping everything late on Christmas eve so just don't have time either.

I part wrap and part shove things in.... Indecisive me

I know I ought to wrap them but there's just so much tat stuff (and I hate wrapping). This is probably the first year my eldest will remember so if I do it this year, I'll need to do it every year

Last years paper is used up with xmas stockings however as the children wise up to this am going to have to come up with a different strategy!

yes - FC wraps in cheap paper in a very slapdash carefree way, completely unlike my control freak careful wrapping. I think it helps to prolong the fun of stocking-opening a bit.

Some things, yes, but not bags of sweets etc. or we would be there unwrapping all day - dch unwrap their stockings on our bed and after a while I start getting twitchy about getting up & putting the turkey on.

No!!!!

Yes!Yes!Yes! Father Christmas always used to leave stockings on our beds as kids so when we woke up we had something to keep us happy (from 5-7 am) wrapping pressies makes this last longer and means parents get more sleep!

Yes, and it has to be different wrapping paper, because santa wrapped it :)

yes - but then I LOVE wrapping! it's all recycled paper from previous years, that should make it more eco friendly...

Wrapped stocking presents don't earn me any extra sleep as my 2 DDs annoyingly kindly bring their stockings through to share the unwrapping with my DH and I.

We still wrap though as a lazy wake up as they make a right mess in my bedroom while unwrapping slowly is still preferable to them just tipping the whole lot out and seeing it all in one go.

Mind you, my two love their sleep and last year my DD2, 7, woke early, noticed that FC had been then went back to sleep til nearly 9 anyway. Love my kids!

Yes, wrap presents but not toothbrushes / sweets etc. So this year ds has a plasticine tub, scooby doo goo, playmobil figures etc wrapped but other stuff isn't.

yes, but it makes me want to gouge out my eyes.

Oh and it HAS to be different paper from everything else and the rest of the roll has to be hidden.

Of course. Makes it all the more fun :)

Yes wrap all stocking stuff except sweets!

NO NO NO NO NO!!!!!!!!!!

The stocking is the wrapping.

The other presents from Father Christmas are wrapped but not the stocking presents.

Yea, makes it more fun. I also don't wrap fruit or chocolate coins.

I used to use tissue paper (with a different colour for DS and DD) -it's easier to wrap quickly and can be 'scrunched' around the presents so you don't need Sellotape. Though it does tend to rustle a bit when you're trying to creep quietly into the bedroom, so maybe better for those whose tradition is to have the stockings left downstairs.