Starting my wrapping today... This is when I regret buying so much!!!

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DP is taking DD1&2 out to family for the day so I can sit on the sofa cuddling 5 week old DD3 do a bit of work and start my wrapping. Part of me is excited, part is dreading it!!

Any tips to not get bored after I've wrapped the first present? :)

I've already wrapped a load of stocking fillers. Partly to get organised, but partly because I'd bought giant tubes of smarties and I knew I'd eat them if I didn't wrap them straight away .

Unfortunately DH clocked on, and unwrapped and ate them . He replaced and re wrapped them twice before I had to hide them in a different place!

Still got a depressing pile of stuff to wrap, despite doing a budget Christmas this year. And I have to help DS1 finish off his Christmas presents and wrap those

- you have to wrap them, too?!

Lots of music and supplies to hand so you don't have to get up and down all the time.

I hate wrapping, so does DH, so this year we bought big zip up gift bags instead. Has been lovely.

Have only done a couple so far. Lots to do. But there is plenty of time.

I've taken all the kids presents round to my DM house. We've sorted them into 3 piles, Santa sack/stocking for the morning, a large gift bag from us to be taken to the PIL's for after Christmas lunch and the 3rd pile to open at my DM on Boxing Day. I have also got different wrapping paper for each child for each pile for ease of sorting when wrapped (sounds a bit anal now I,ve written it down )
I'll pop round to mum tonight once the children are asleep and we'll have a wrapping session round the kitchen table and a good catchup without the children interrupting us every 2 minutes. DH can stay at home, do the washing up, and then undoubtedly watch some complicated old foreign film he's rented from LoveFilm which I have no interest in watching whatsoever.

I've done the different wrapping paper for each person too! At least for the stocking presents, since there are 4 of us. Last year I just used any old paper for whatever present I was wrapping but DD is 5 now and might start wondering why we have used the same paper as FC.

Have only just started - and that's the getting of as well as the wrapping
Wish me luck ! We did get our decorations and tree up today though, with grumpy help from DH and more cheerful help from DC's

The trees still need baubling. Waiting for the Hobbit to start so on't be done tonight - grrrr!

I love wrapping.

I've just wrapped 30 presents for my class and during the week I shall wrap presents for family and friends. I do colour coded wrapping so it is easy to sort out which gifts have to go where

fuzzpig it may be too late. DD is 3.5. Last week she asked innocently "Mummy, does Father Christmas buy his wrapping paper in Sainsbury's too?". I asked why she was asking and she said we had the same paper in our wrapping paper box as FC had used for her stocking presents last year, and we buy all our paper from Sainsbury's .

Needless to say, FC has popped into Asda for this year's paper! I have learnt not to underestimate the observational skills and memory of a 3yo.

I've been wrapping mine as I've bought them for the first time ever. I normally end up doing it Christmas Eve until the early hours of the morning and promise myself every year that next year I will bemore organised. I've even delivered family presents to them already!

I've got two bikes left to wrap but they are in my nans garage at the moment as I have nowhere to hide them so they will be a last minute thing.

I haven't really had much to wrap this year as the boys have had computer games, and other small but expensive stuff so not a huge pile.

I wrapped the kids and DH's presents the other day and it took 4 hours .

PotatoMincePie wrapping DCs presents with your mum sounds like a perfect start to Christmas

I've wrapped all DDs stocking presents (she is 35!!!) DS lives abroad, so he has taken his away with him already.

Just got DH and extended family pressies to wrap

Wing :o

Thankfully she didn't say anything last year, I'm sure she would this year though, hence special/different paper.

I OTOH worked out FC wasn't real age 4 when I recognised the pen my mum had used (with disguised handwriting)!

I am ploughing through some wrapping now, just the rectangular/easy stuff. Quite a shock to see how much there is all at once but I know they will love it all. I think I will always go a bit OTT at Xmas.

And by the way, that scotch tape hand dispenser thing is bloody fabulous! :o

50 something for the kids . How the hell is that possible??? More books than toys/games.

About 9 for DH [oops].

Not 50 each btw!!

I wrap DD's presents on Christmas eve, after she's asleep. My sister helps and we drink wine and listen to carols while we do it. It's our little tradition. Everyone else's presents are all wrapped and under the tree. DD helped with those (well, she sat there with bits of sellotape stuck to every inch of her so they were in easy reach when needed!)

I was very daunted by the pile for my 2, but it actually went much more quickly than I thought. DH and I got the bulk of it wrapped tonight, feels like a weight off my shoulders!

Once the cards are finished I'll feel I can relax a bit and enjoy Xmas.

I gave wrapping a good go but was stumped when it came to a hello kitty teapot. how does one wrap a teapot ?!?!

I've run out of santa's paper. He'll have to go to Marks' tomorrow to get some more.

i hate wrapping. i hate it nearly as much as trying to locate the damn presents in the first place

Oh have wrapped nothing except some that I need to post.

DC are waaaay ahead of me, mostly because DD loves dloing it and is very neat so she has done th eboys' as well. Can't really ask her to wrap her own pressies tho