Do you wrap gifts in stockings?

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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?

I don’t wrap the stocking stuff because my parents never did so it hadn’t really occurred to me!

Santa presents will be in different paper to the rest of the presents though. Although I doubt DS will even notice!

No. It would then have to be recycled. We try to have #zerowaste as much as possible.

Always wrapped here.

Not wrapped here. I asked on Facebook a couple of years ago and got quite evenly split replies among my friends.

I wrap because —DH makes me— it extends the fun and suspense.

My parents just used to put the presents in the stocking without wrapping them and TBH it didn’t feel any less fun. I used to love digging into it and seeing what had been put in.

I wrap the stocking presents apart from things like little chocolates/sweets. I think it makes it more fun.

Not wrapped here- ‘Father Christmas’ doesn’t have time!

We have never wrapped here - my parents never did so I never thought to. I am glad it never occurred to me that people did.

I wrap them. More exciting.
And yes you must do separate wrapping paper!!

I bulk bought low quality sheets of tissue paper on Amazon last year, in red and green. One child has their presents in red, the other in green. I have lots left over for next year too. Makes it so much easier. This year, I also bought personalised stickers that sag To X, love from Santa' which I used instead of sellotpe.

Wrap in tissue paper - cover the present roughly, stick some sleeps on to hold the tissue paper together. Wrapping small stocking presents properly would drive me bananas.

Father Christmas does the stockings.
He wraps in tissue paper, but no sellotape, as he's busy.

Makes opening stockings more fun.

Conveniently, he uses a different colour for each child, so he doesn't get confused.

Yep. Stocking presents are wrapped in red tissue paper as that's what my mom used to do.

I have done previous years but I’ve gone a little over the top with the amount of presents this year so not going to bother wrapping the stockings in case they fed up of opening things

Definitely always wrapped. Genuinely didn't know that some people don't wrap stocking presents. My family has always wrapped even the tiniest stocking gifts with paper and tape. The only thing left unwrapped is the satsuma.
To me opening all of the little parcels is an integral part of the fun. The delayed gratification of pulling something out and trying to work out what it is before unwrapping it is part of the magic of Christmas.

Yes wrapped everything apart from the selection box. Don't ask me why

Mine was wrapped as a child. I had to wait until 7/7:30 to open my stocking in my parents’ room but I used to love emptying into my bed and having a prod before refilling it! So we are definitely wrappers here. I have used different wrapping but she had a gift from santa last week that was in our normal paper that she’s seen and I just said he must buy his paper from sainsburys too!

My mum used to save the discarded paper from previous years for the stockings.

Wrapped with sellotape. It takes forever but I like to do it because I think it does extend the fun.

No wrapping.

I've just spent the evening wrapping stocking presents. I think it makes it more exciting.

Yes to separate wrapping paper, Father Christmas uses tasteless character paper (shopkins and disney princesses this year) while mum and dad use nice paper with ribbons.

Never wrapped. As pp states - stocking is the wrapping (old kilt socks). Greener too.

Yes. Either cheap paper or tissue.

Red and green tissue paper

I wrap them, but use tissue paper and do it quite quickly and not bothered if it’s neat. Unwrapping presents is the best bit!