Do you wrap stocking presents ?

[Tillyscoutsmum]

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

Yes. In special paper that only FC uses

Well, it would appear to be an overwhelming yes.

Tissue paper it is though. I am possibly the world's worst wrapper

Yes, of course.

Santa even has his own paper - a different one for each child that he uses.

It usually says 'from Santa' on it too.

But I am a bit sad mad about Christmas

yes I tend to wrap most of the pressies but not every little bit of tat

J have never wrapped stocking presents, Didn't even cross my mimd and I was surprised when I discovered that other people do wrap them. It never spoiled the magig.

Whether you wrap or don't wrap, can I ask, do you tend to remove any packaging from the item ( I'm talking toys really I suppose) before wrapping or placing into the stocking?

I can't seem to remember what my parents did for us but think they may have unpackaged them for that "FC made them in his toy factory for you" feel though I do distinctly remember unwrapping other larger presents on my bed so maybe they were packaged and wrapped

I suppose it doesn't matter (my DP would laugh at me for writing this) but in the spirit of tradition I am asking.

I think for DS who will receive mainly small toys/instruments it will be unwrapped and unpackaged

I was wondering that, joymaker. I can't recall anything being still in packaging in our stockings, but then the only things I can remember (apart from the apple, satsuma and shiny pennies) are a book and some reels of cotton. So no packaging there anyway. I was contemplating taking off the plastic wrapper on the orange and lemon slices for ds2 but then thought maybe that would just lead to an over-excited 4 year old eating the entire packet in one go and me waking to the smell of vomit...

Anyway. I wrap everything in stockings, in different paper from the rest of the presents.

I love wrapping though- I have a little camping table and chair and the wrapping paper is stored in a tall plastic bin for ease of use

Yes of course Father Christmas and the elves wrap all presents, even stocking ones and in seperate wrapping paper

Thanks Shodan you sound mighty organised.

BluddyMoFo and Peanuts okay but does FC take the toys out of the packaging?

Yes most but not all of it. The odd bit i leave unwrapped for a change.

Public Service Announcement: I bought 3 WHSmith wrapping paper, 2 for normal presents, 1 different design for Stocking. But got home to find they all have cutting grid printed on reverse and says WHSmith. so you can't use it for stocking things. Which is a pain. So had to go get anoter roll. Grrr

Yes I wrap everything, usually in Santa paper if I can find any! Kids love but does take hours to do presents for 3!

The stocking is the wrapper.

really confused - is the stocking a seperate thing from big presents, but are these big presents also from santa?

We just hang up a big christmassy sack, well, lay it over the back of a chair, in the morning it is full of stuff big and small, the bigger stuff that doesn't fit in is just piled around the sack on/by the chair.

everything is wrapped.

Yes Mercy we used to have a stocking (pillowcase) at the end of bed with WRAPPED small presents in
Then we had other presents downstairs near the tree a mix of from Santa and family

We have a stocking (although its more of a sack) with small presents (this year, mostly wrapped in tissue paper with things like choc coins and other little bits unwrapped). We then have big presents around the tree - some from F.C. and others from us and other family

Oh and I forgot to say...

IT'S DECEMBER

Oh Lord no! I think I did the first year with DD1 though !

Mercy When I was growing up we had stocking presents and some which were maybe too large to fit in the stocking placed at the foot of our beds -I can vividly remember waking when my foot pushed up against a wrapped present . All presents under the tree were from family only (I come from a big family so there were many under there already)

There was a thread about this recently I'm sure, I'll see if I can link it for you...

... this is it