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Do I really need to wrap the bastard stocking presents

88 replies

Hersetta427 · 15/12/2016 12:21

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

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HungryHorace · 15/12/2016 19:21

We haven't had stockings before (DCs are 3 and 2) and I can safely say that I'm not going to wrap the presents going into them. It's bad enough wrapping everything else!

MrsMattBomer · 15/12/2016 19:56

I don't even wrap the main presents if I can get away with it. Boxes and bags all the way!

margiebargie · 15/12/2016 20:02

Of course you wrap them! So that when they wriggle their feet in the early hours, they feel the weight of the filled stocking and hear the crackle of the paper.

margiebargie · 15/12/2016 20:03

The only things you don't have to wrap are satsumas.

shouldwestayorshouldwego · 15/12/2016 20:10

We (well I) do. Different to presents from us and different for each child. If you only have one child then I have heard that Father Christmas wraps in shiny silver tin foil paper. Rip, place, scrunch, done.

lapsedorienteerer · 15/12/2016 20:11

Yes

goose1964 · 15/12/2016 20:13

I used to wrap the presents but not the edible/drinkable stuff. This year I'm not in charge of stockings but have bought every one a Santa present to go under the tree

schmack · 15/12/2016 20:17

we never did or do

MissBeehiving · 15/12/2016 20:30

I hate wrapping stocking presents but revolutionised my life (slight overexaggeration) by using paper party bags and just stapling at the top. IKEA sell them every year - this years offering has red and green presents on the front.

NecklessMumster · 15/12/2016 20:41

I've never wrapped stocking presents in 15 years and never even considered it, and now you've all made me worry that I should've . But I won't, it's too late to change traditionSmile. They have always said their stockings are their favourite bit of the day, I think they get them out a bit at a time as they're too packed in to just tip out

Yika · 15/12/2016 20:46

Of course you have to wrap them. Do you think Santa just chucks them in a big pile on the sleigh with no prior thought or preparation? Dear oh dear. No wrapping needed for the apple or clementine. That's all.

MrsMattBomer · 15/12/2016 20:52

We stopped wrapping presents full stop when they were about 5. We moved onto bags and boxes instead. A) because we're crap at wrapping and B) it just seemed like a lot of waste and mess for something that's just going to be ripped apart.

Birdandsparrow · 15/12/2016 20:55

People wrap stocking presents???!!!

AmberEars · 15/12/2016 20:57

I don't wrap stocking presents. My DC have never complained!

Catzpyjamas · 15/12/2016 20:58

I truly wish that Santa hadn't ever started wrapping stocking gifts as now he is I am so sick of wrapping. He also has to wrap 21 year old DSS's stocking gifts since DD would question it otherwise. Xmas Hmm

Suttonmum1 · 15/12/2016 21:00

Came on to recommend the wrist mounted sellotape dispenser but I see someone has got in first. I only use it at Christmas, but it revolutionised wrapping.

Also recommend buying the cheapest possible mainly red paper (supermarket cheap range or ikea) for stockings. They are always available, and then Father Christmas has basically the same paper every year.

SimplyNigella · 15/12/2016 21:01

Yes.

Tissue paper with stickers or washi tape. Quick and easy.

Cliffdiver · 15/12/2016 21:57

People don't wrap stocking presents?!?!?!?

MsHybridFanGirl · 15/12/2016 22:10

Always always wrap! My favourite Xmas memory is of wiggling my toes at the end of the bed and feeling the rustling of the paper and knowing HE had been! Xmas Smile

TwoGunslingers · 15/12/2016 23:46

Can someone tell me about the loo brush thing? What am I supposed to be using, apart from NOT bleach and a MOONCUP BlushGrin

Santa didn't wrap our presents so I never expected that as a child, though I did catch on quite young since he wrapped the posh kids on our streets stuff Wink

Also maybe someone can explain stockings to me. Are we talking big/small/foot shaped?

I love Mn for this stuff Grin

GruffaloPants · 16/12/2016 00:03

I would never think of wrapping stocking presents.

Mine weren't when I was a child. I loved the feeling of the heavy, lumpy stocking, and squeezing it to work out what was inside. Also seeing the tops of things poking out. It just wouldn't be the same if wrapped. Everyone's different,

Plus, you are busy and don't want to. So don't.

DramaAlpaca · 16/12/2016 00:08

I wrap everything. Even the chocolate coins. I try to make Christmas preparations as easy as I can for myself, but present wrapping is non-negotiable.

MissMarplesHat · 16/12/2016 00:14

I do, probably because as a child mine were. I guess it depends on family tradition.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 16/12/2016 00:23

I don't think my stocking presents were wrapped when I was a child - it is way too many years ago for me to remember!

But I have always wrapped stocking presents, because it spun out the opening for longer, and I still do, even though the boys are 19, 21 and 23. And I do a stocking for dh, and wrap his too - so that's 44+ presents to wrap just for stockings. It is very possible that I am a fool.

DramaAlpaca · 16/12/2016 00:29

Well that means I'm a fool too SDTG Grin.

My boys are the same age as yours (as I think you know from other threads we've both been on!) and I do just the same. It's such fun to watch them opening everything, even if it is a pain to wrap them all.