Following on from the what's in the stocking thread

[BuckBuckMcFate]

Does everyone wrap all of the bits that go in them then?

I wrap the presents that go under the tree but have never wrapped the contents of their stockings.

Doesn't it take forever? To wrap and to open?

I wrap them, simply because, in the time taken to open random stuff out of the stocking, either dp or myself can nip down & make a cuppa to have in bed & they're still opening them long enough to drink them in bed.

I've put in mini colouring books and crayons this year too, just in case the cuppa lasts longer than the stocking opening

Yes, I wrap them. It's crazy, takes forever.

I love it though! I've wrapped everything for DH, Ds1 and Ds2's stocking already. Will have to do a bit more when I've bought the top up bits still to go. I'll hope to have them wrapped by about the 22nd. I've left it until the last minute before and it became a horrible, never ending, middle of the night chore. Tissue paper helps for wrapping awkward stuff quickly.

Stockings take us ages to unwrap, that's a big part of why I do it. There probably the best bit of the day for us. DH's family never used to wrap stockings but now he wraps pne for me and says he prefers it, despite the hassle.

I wrap things like for example this year, I've wrapped scooby doo goo, cars 2 horn and car but not sweets or playmobil figures or socks etc

All wrapped in different paper to all other presents.

Santa always wraps. End of.

I wrap to prolong the present opening. (And lots of sellotape)

DS sleeps in DDs room on Christmas Eve and DH and I love to hear them quietly trying to open their stocking gifts and chattering to each other.
Then they come piling into our room because they're not allowed downstairs until we're awake.

Though a couple of years back I heard DS sneaking downstairs and 'reporting' back to DD that "He's Been". (DS is 12 DD is 9.6 )

i'm with pink

We definitely wrap. One of our DDs (usually the younger one) will wake first and then wake the other. THey tend to bring their stockings through onto our bed to open. It is a tradition that just happened by itself.

They sprawl on our bed and unwrap, I field the rubbish and contain the mess and my OH surfaces into consciousness relatively calmly.

If I didn't wrap I could imaging the elder one just tipping the lot out and going through it is about 20 seconds.

I'm really surprised you all wrap!

My mum never wrapped ours and neither did DP's.

Glad I put this in Christmas not AIBU

Definitely wrap dds wake up at around 5 & lay out all their presents trying to guess what they are. They come into us around 6 for the big FC pres unwrapping.

Yes, one of my strong memories of Christmas are of being so flipping excited to see all those little wrapped gifts in my transparent stocking! I don't wrap sweets but I do everything else. It's all done and ready.

If they weren't wrapped a whole section of santas elves would be in the queue for the job centre

I wrap them. When I did their first stockings last year I was not intending to, but I got carried away

I like the fact that it buys a bit more time in the morning!

Yes, we wrap them (well I do and dp is impressed how they seem to wrap themselves!). The girls are teenagers now but dd2 always sleeps in dd1's room on Christmas Eve then they open their stockings together before coming in to dp and I to show us 'what Santa has brought' them! They don't go down until dp has been to put the kettle on and 'see if Santa has been.' This is a sacred tradition and the girls must abide by it, however old they are! :)

Wrap. Specifically in paper that has pictures of santa on. A tradition I wish we had never started.

Surely I can't be the only non wrapper on MN?!?

we wrap everything, in different wrapping paper to anything that comes from us.

I wrap, but my DC don't open their other presents until 4 ish, so they need a bit of unwrapping in the morning

I don't wrap stocking presents (way to fiddly), all the other presents under the tree are wrapped and TBH the dd's get fed up with unwrapping things. I try and put things in the stocking that will keep them busy early in the morning so we have to to have a drink and wake up a little.

I wrap everything bar the satsuma.

I wrap. I have a double sided paper from Costco and wrap all of dds in one side and all of ds's in the other. That way if things get mixed up it seems clear whose is whose.

I don't tend to put heaps of parcels in their stockings though, but what I put in is maybe a bit more expensive iyswim.

It slows the whole process down - they take turns opening - and we sit there blurry, drinking a cup of tea.

i wrap most of the stocking fillers except any really awkwardly shaped ones. i wish my kids all piled onto my bed to open them, but they cant as i have the box room (single parent and only 4 bedrooms, brother in next smallest room- is a lot taller than me so takes up more space, 2 boys in big bedroom, 2 girls in middle bedroom) my bedroom literally is the size of a box. however, since i am always the first up on christmas morning, i come downstairs, make coffee and then turn on all the christmas lights and we all sit on the living room floor and open presents.

No wrapping here. The stocking is the wrapping. It's always taken ages for our DDs to finish looking at stuff in their stocking.

Also DD's have always had about 20 stocking presents. This is going to be reduced next year as they will all be over 20.

I did not have Christmas stockings when I was little, so I make the most of it with DS! Everything bar the clementine and bag of coins is wrapped.

Reading that the adults have stockings, too, is making me grumpy! I WANT ONE, TOO!!!