Do I really need to wrap the bastard stocking presents

[Hersetta427]

Please tell me I don't....I have lost the will to live and am drowning under different wrapping papers (as obviously can't use the same wrapping paper as Santa for family presents).......arghhh

But if you don't wrap they won't be able to rummage inside, grab an interesting looking shape, shake it, wonder briefly what it might be, build the delightful anticipation before finding out it's a pair of pants.

But I only wrap some as I said so best of both worlds.

I also don't wrap presents with a toilet brush, hardcorelady

I wrap the stocking presents very tight with lots of tape. Slows them down a bit while dh and I compose ourselves and prepare for the day of madness ahead.

I asked myself this question too and I'm afraid, after serious consideration, my answer was yes, they have to be wrapped.

I have literally just finished wrapping them all. 18 stocking presents x 2 for the DCs, 3 presents x 2 for under the tree and a further 13 for family and friends. I started at 10am and have literally just finished. This baby, from Rymans, plus a million refills has revolutionised my December

I finished my stocking wrapping today. We have 5 dc, and they each have 15-20 things in their stockings. Mostly edible. I use tissue paper and it just gets bundled and taped and put in a pillow case. We don't have stockings, because we don't have a fireplace. I put them on their beds at about 3am.

My favourite bit of Christmas is listening to each of them wake up and the tissue paper and whispering, which turns into giggling. Then they come into our room and we all go downstairs together.

I normally leave it until Christmas eve and have visions of me and DH wrapping and having a baileys etc. But the reality is DH asleep on the sofa while I'm ripping duct tape with my teeth because we've run out of sellotape!

They have to be wrapped here!

They bring their stockings in to my room and open them on my bed. The more paper and tape the longer it takes to open! Which means longer for me to stay in bed. Win win.

As a child my stocking gifts were never wrapped. But then as an adult one year my mum did me a stocking and wrapped everything.

I do a stocking for myself (I know I know), buy everything the year before and wrap it so I've forgotten

I wrap everything except chocolate and soft toys. Stockings are recent additions in our house. I never had them as a child and I didn't really know the correct way of doing them.

I use tissue paper and do a pretty poor job tbh
Kids don't seem to notice

I wrap stocking presents. Despite being very low effort on most christmas things.

It has just occurred to me that these could be a really good way of wrapping stocking fillers. Pop each item in a bag, fold over and tape. Done. They come in green and gold stripes too so you could have a mix. Maybe next year!

Wrap everything ! Always have and still do 3 ds 18 19 & 21 they think I'm odd!

I wrap everything! Surely if they aren't wrapped it only takes two minutes to get it all out?
Wrapped with lots of sellotape here. Gives me time to get a cuppa and pull myself round before starting all the shit downstairs 😃

I wrap nothing, absolutely nothing. The nearest anything gets to being wrapped in my house is the toys in the stocking as they are hidden by the stocking material. To me the magic of Christmas morning is when you open the livingroom door and BOOM everything is there laid out in front of you. It's a crazy wonderful information overload and taking things out of the stocking is quite calming in comparison.

Do I really need to wrap the bastard stocking presents?

Sounds like Santa's suffering from Tourette's.

I used to wrap and seal very well with sticky tape, makes it more interesting and takes longer to open. I used to save any good sized bits of wrapping paper from through the year and use for stocking gifts, so ecologically sound too!

I wrap but have discovered tissue paper this year. Aldi are doing a pack with matching festive stickers for 89p. Much easier

I don't wrap them. I hate bastard wrapping.

No, no, no - I have never wrapped a single present that's going into a stocking. Father Christmas is far too bloody busy for that kind of nonsense, and the kids sure as hell don't care - in fact wrapping paper slows them down in finding out what they've got.

I never wrap the stocking presents.

(Then again, I never wrap anything from Santa)

I love wrapping presents, find it is such a calming, nice thing to do - I have a large glass (or two) of wine, Christmas music in the background - quite a pleasant way to spend an evening. I always used to volunteer to do wrap the lucky dip gifts at school fairs etc - sort of thing I love doing .

Thanks everyone. I may concede to slinging a bit of tissue paper at them, but only as the dc don't have that many presents to open from us as they have a joint large non wrapable present (an outdoor basketball hoop and stand). But what with presents for family, presents from Santa (ds is 5 and still believes) and presents from my parents who live abroad and send me money to buy them something, I feel like wrapping is taking forever.

Of course you wrap, pretty lazy not too.

Absolutely nothing wrong with being lazy.

You must wrap

I wrapped as I bought for the first time this year and highly recommend it, much less stressful to wrap a couple at a time .

Oh, and I wrap stocking presents except edible stuff, don't know why.