Do you wrap items to go in the stockings?

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Or not? I do, but just curious.

I keep all the odds and sods scraps of paper from the main wrapping. If I can use it up when doing the stocking all well and good, if I don't have the right sized bit of paper it just gets put in unwrapped. As we use sacks rather than actual stockings this is a bit easier.

Yes all wrapped. Different paper to presents from presents from us and the family. Each child has different coloured paper after stockinggate when one of FC's helpers (yes looking at you dh) somehow mixed up the carefully segregated and labelled bags with stocking fillers when getting them out of the car and FC had to spend Christmas Eve unwarpping and checking which present was for which child. Most stocking presents are different versions of the same item to reduce Christmas morning bickering.

Yes, but we don't do main presents until after the pub church so our stockings tend to be more substantial [santa]

Yes I do.

Yes - as others say in different paper to the 'under the tree' gifts. although now DS is a teen the main Christmas present tends to be cash so the only presents to open are stocking fillers.

I wrap stocking presents, and the dses' stocking presents are always wrapped in different paper to the paper used for any other presents - even now they do know the truth about FC.

The wrapping is definitely done quickly and not terribly well, though!

Yes, though I always regret that decision about halfway through. It's not very neatly done though and with a minimum of tape as my kids are still very small.

Ah, don't worry, should. I once confused the carefully-labelled bags and one child got another's entire stocking contents. Luckily we twigged halfway through, and half the stuff was the same anyway, so the world didn't end.

Oh I am sure they wouldn't have cared- well except why dd1 was getting toy cars and ds makeup, but I cared! Colour coding means that even if dh tried to, he can't mix them up again!

Yes, but this year I've decided to swap to tissue paper. My eldest is like me and takes bloody ages to unwrap, so it's painful to watch. (I know why my siblings want to kill me at Christmas!) Tissue should speed it up and my youngest will be able to manage on their own

Yes always! Big part of the fun imo.

Apart from the satsuma. Wrapping a satsuma would just be bloody weird

yes, most if it, because it takes longer to open and it looks more!

Yes In different paper for each dc so it doesn't matter if they get mixed up when unwrapping and I don't have to label them. It's paper with santas or snowmen on usually and not stuff I use for anything else because obviously it's only available in the North Pole.

Our stocking fillers were always wrapped when I was little.

However, I hate wrapping so I may do things differently as a parent!

Yes,everything is wrapped except edibles. A different paper for each one so I know whose is whose-saves having to label and when Mother Christmas is inebriated on Christmas Eve that is no bad thing!

I wrap everything. Takes ages, but it's a must in our house.

I wrap everything! Even the satsuma gets wrapped in tin foil. No idea why, but mine always came like that, so I've just carried it on. FC brings socks, a book, a few very small toys, lots of chocolate money and a balloon on the top. Then we all sit in our bed for the unwrapping and balloon bashing before breakfast, then more presents, a walk, more presents, dinner and then any presents that are left. The DCs are only 2 and 1, so can't manage more than 2 presents in one sitting so we have to space it out a bit!

Yes all wrapped, each dc has a different paper so don't need to label them. DH and I wrap the Dc presents together so he knows what they have got and count the stocking presets so they have the same amount, when the stocking is full, the rest go in the Santa bag, which are opened later on in the morning (once the in laws are dressed, have eaten breakfast etc, dc go crazy waiting but it's a compromise as the in laws thought Santa presents should be opened after lunch. I said no way, and that's for my sake as well as the Dc !