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

Hahaha what a hilarious thread title !

Thankyou so much OP cos this is how I feel!!!

I always wrap them. It adds to the anticipation and looks nicer. I like Wrapping presents and will do it a couple of days before Xmas while watching festive crap on TV. Can't wait!

What do you mean people don't use a look brush?

Noooooooooo! Never & never as a kid. There is enough sodding wrapping to do!

DS is 15 and is an only child so he comes into us to open his stocking, we wrap under the tree presents, but not the stocking. Now he is that bit older, he gets in at the opposite end of the bed (bed ends both ends) and he has to put the stocking under the duvet, tip some of the things out and pull them out blind.

Makes the stocking last a bit longer........... not much but a bit.

I start really really early, so his favourite part is when I genuinely go what the dickens before remembering....

Tissue paper in a different colour for each person here. I like the crinkle of paper at the foot of the bed.

What is it about stockings that you don't understand, TwoGunslingers ?

trouble the image of your ds in your bed pulling out presents one by one just made me smile. These silly things are why we all do the crazy Christmas thing, wrapping or no wrapping.

I'd echo the tissue paper suggestion. It slows down the whole stocking thing, allowing parents to blink awake.

We always wrap stocking presents well.

ds brings the stocking from his room into our bed and opens the presents there. gives us at least another 30-45 minutes before we need to get up and see the presents downstairs.

Roughly wrapped in tissue paper that I collect from packaging through the year. I do stockings for DD 2 and 3, and four grandchildren. I asked DD s when I was stopping theirs (they're 22 and 24) and they said not til they left home !

I do now, but when DD was very small I didn't. She preferred to see what the stuff was, she is fine with wrapped items now but I can't remember when it changed tbh.

Yes you need to wrap as it makes the stocking last longer and even mundane stuff is nicer when it's wrapped up. Only things not wrapped here are the chocolate coins, a handful of nuts and a satsuma and the cuddly toy that is poking out from the stocking. I resort to tissue paper though for stocking presents that are an awkward shape to wrap.

I don't wrap everything but wrap bits and bobs.

What has helped considerably though is building up a stock of these sorts of little bags:

scroll down to see red and white striped/spotty candy bags here

normally used for party treats. I find the red and white ones so useful for stockings, wrapping "add on" little presents that go with big presents, and for small presents for children at Christmas - so much quicker and easier to just bung things in a bag than faddle around with sellotape and wrapping paper.