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Do you wrap gifts in stockings?

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BalancingStick · 17/12/2017 20:38

As a child my family never did stockings, it was just gifts left by the fireplace from Father Christmas and gifts under tree from my parents and other family. My DH's family did the same. My DC are still very young so we are starting to create new family traditions - I want to do stockings.

I have gifts and I have stockings for the DC but I can't work out whether you wrap presents before placing them in the stocking? Or do you just stuff the stocking with unwrapped gifts and therefore the stocking itself is the wrapping? And then, if you do wrap gifts before placing them in the stocking, does that mean you have to use a different wrapping paper because you can't have Father Christmas gifts and your gifts having the same paper surely?!

What do you do?

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Fueledwithfairydustandgin · 17/12/2017 20:40

I wrap stocking presents in cheap character paper then do proper presents in nice paper

pemberleypearl · 17/12/2017 20:41

I wrap because it extends the fun.

MirandaWest · 17/12/2017 20:41

Everything gets wrapped, except the satsuma at the bottom. And Father Christmas uses different wrapping paper Smile

xyzandabc · 17/12/2017 20:43

We don't wrap stocking presents. I'm rubbish at it and it takes too long.

MrsGB2225 · 17/12/2017 20:44

I wrap the presents... builds excitement

HoppyCopter · 17/12/2017 20:46

Tissue paper, roughly. Quick :)

lalaloopyhead · 17/12/2017 20:47

I wrap most of the stocking presents, I do leave the odd thing unwrapped (usually when I get fed up) like packet of sweets and such like.

Snowman41 · 17/12/2017 20:48

I have never wrapped them.

TheBlueMeaniesAreComing · 17/12/2017 20:52

We wrap everything. Stockings and tree presents. Only one or two presents are from us. The rest Santa. We use the same paper on our presents as we do for family. Santa has his own paper

Chocolateteabag · 17/12/2017 20:54

My family have never wrapped stocking presents - I'm one of four, DM is one of six - I guess it was a practical decision by DGM

But DH's family are stocking present wrappers - which has been an added stress in previous years when we stayed with them or had MIL staying.

This year we are at home and as I am the one who wraps presents - I am decreeing it's my family tradition that wins out!

The stocking is the "wrap" and it's less tree wastage!

Babababababybel23 · 17/12/2017 20:54

I do if i have left over paper after I have done the main gifts, just to get it out of the way

cravingcake · 17/12/2017 20:57

Most stocking presents are wrapped in tissue paper, big gift from Santa by the fire (in paper only Santa uses). Rest of the presents under the tree.

Lovemusic33 · 17/12/2017 20:57

I have wrapped this year, mainly to buy me more time in bed Grin

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BalancingStick · 17/12/2017 21:05

OK most people wrap. This is what I feared. I now understand why we didn't have a stocking tradition as kids - its more bloody work!

Oh well - better go buy some more wrapping paper...

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happymummy12345 · 17/12/2017 21:07

Always wrapped. The fun part is watching the paper being torn off.

Thedietstartsnow · 17/12/2017 21:08

We wrap.even the bloody dog has one with wrapped gifts in..sigh

SwedishEdith · 17/12/2017 21:08

Tissue paper is easier.

thenewaveragebear1983 · 17/12/2017 21:14

We wrap stocking presents. Very tight with lots of tape! Buys a bit of time to fully wake up before going downstairs for the main presents.

shouldwestayorshouldwego · 17/12/2017 21:14

Presents wrapped in colour coded wrapping paper for each child (after the year when Father Christmas mixed up all the presents and Mother Christmas spent half the night opening presents to check whose it was).
Wrapping paper is always different from normal wrapping paper and has to be hidden from dh who will roam around looking for wrapping paper on Christmas Eve - despite being asked whether he had enough a week earlier.

shouldwestayorshouldwego · 17/12/2017 21:18

I have heard of people using silver foil and just squeezing it around - but then you can't colour code.
Colour coding also helps if they empty out stocking contents on the bed so they aren't mixed up. I don't do labels as otherwise they might recognise my writing.

PodgeBod · 17/12/2017 21:23

I wrap mine in tissue paper after reading about it on here- white for DD1, gold for DD2. Things that are pretty already are not wrapped. We didn't have stockings as kids, so didn't know that they were not generally wrapped until I had already got into the habit of them.

Corneliusmurphy · 17/12/2017 21:24

Father Christmas does the stocking and one gift here, he has his own paper and the stuff not in packets gets wrapped (books 3ds games etc) sweets/bath bombs/mini figures/soccerstarz don't
I used to wrap everything but it seemed to take forever to open and it's only tokens after all

SJCV · 17/12/2017 21:34

Stockings are from Father Christmas and are wrapped in one type of paper. We use a different colour of wrapping paper for each of the three DC for the tree presents from us so that we know whose is whose and we don’t need to write labels! They don’t get many gifts (each child has approximately 10 gifts between stocking and tree) so it’s not too much wrapping.

hashtagelfie · 17/12/2017 21:40

Wrap but in brown paper bags like these. Just pop the present in and stick it down. Job done.

Do you wrap gifts in stockings?
Galax · 17/12/2017 21:40

Yes wrapped and FC has different wrapping paper for each child- stockings are at end of bed but the Santa presents downstairs will match with their stocking wrapping!

And parents don't buy Xmas presents in our house, everything from us is from "santa"!