Made a serious wrapping error

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Just wrapped up all the stocking presents for DC.

I had bought a special roll of wrapping paper for the purpose, different to all my other paper, from a shop in a town some distance away so that DC would not be likely to see the paper for sale beforehand.

Wrapped everything up and used up all the paper exactly, so was feeling v pleased with myself, but have now realised that DC1 has one more gift still to arrive in the post, and there is no paper left

Noooooooooooooooooooo!

Now either I have to :
(a)make a special trip back to the same shop in the hope that they have another roll of the wrapping paper (unlikely, it was the only one there when I bought it)
(b) Go to another shop DC are unlikely to go to before Christmas, buy another roll of different wrapping paper, unwrap all DC1's gifts and rewrap them in new paper, and hide/destroy discarded wrapping paper so that nobody sees it before Christmas (because it is still being used to wrap DC2's gifts)
(c)wrap one of DC1's gifts in non-matching paper

Sigh. DH will say I should go for option c, but DC1 will absolutely notice, and question it.

Fc never wrapped stocking presents when I was little. How I wish he stuck to that now

Rudolph idea is brilliant!

Sometimes we write "from the Elves" too.

Stocking presents are never wrapped in this house.

Santa wraps nothing in this house. The stocking is the wrapper.

Keep the present for a birthday?
I think you are seriously overthinking this, it's wrapping paper!
My DCs knew that the elves made extra presents so they were in the shops for children who didn't get them for xmas/didn't celebrate xmas. Some kind of nonsense like that anyway, I forget exactly what lie story I made up.

i bought wrong paper once and xmas presents ended up wrapped in birthday paper :/

oh and this year i have wrapped the boys presents in pink paper. oh well

I have to keep wrapping stocking presents as always have. Didn't know you weren't supposed too as I never got any presents a stocking at Christmas. One year I did make the mistake of using all the same paper but now I buy paper with Santa on every year and that is only for stockings. I start off with everyone having their own paper and then buy too much and it becomes a free for all with odd paper and none matching tags!

Father Christmas delivers the presents on Christmas Eve, and the mums and dads wrap them while he is having his whisky and mince pie, and Rudolph has his carrot.

Obviously.

It would never occur to me that my kids would ever have noticed what wrapping paper was even being sold, let alone if it appeared on their presents!

Stocking presents always wrapped here as they always were for me.

Why wouldn't ypu?

The more to unwrap the more fun!

I used to love it when the kids used to come into bed to unwrap the stuff in their stockings.

stocking gifts here are wrapped in tissue paper, makes it a lot easier as it's different to the main gifts, but if it's different colours it doesn't matter.

I would do option 1 if I had time or option c if not (Ring ahead so you don't make a wasted trip). Definitely mad to do b!

I always left stocking presents unwrapped, until this year when dd has revealed she gets up in the night, has a lokk at them, then goes back to sleep and pretends to look surprised the next morning when she brings her stocking through to our room to unwrap. This year they are wrapped he he!!

Mum always miscalculated the paper needed for five kids and there has been more than one christmas morning where we have been requested to open very carefully so that she could reuse it for relatives later.

Also I think she'd have gone round the twist if she wrapped every little stocking filler so no, we have no wrapped stockings here.

My 3 year old DD has noticed paper being the same for different sets of family gifts so she would definitely notice if Santa used that paper. I use tissue paper stuck with Christmas stickers for stockings and brown craft paper for one main Santa present (personalised with special tags and ribbons).

Stocking presents are always shoddily wrapped in the naffest, thinnest paper I can find here. Usually I take wrapping very seriously, so nobody would ever suspect that these messy little bundles were my handiwork.

They do have to be wrapped though. Have such fond memories of waking up on Christmas morning and feeling something heavy and rustling sitting on my feet.

Because I am utterly insane and crazy, if it was me, I would go option a or b. But Its an awful lot easier just to buy the wrap from tesco/Asda/wh smiths and just not stop and let the Dc look at the Christmas wrap section in future