Wrap as you go or wrap all at the same time?

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Which do you prefer?

I prefer to wrap as I go, as it feels most satisfying.

I always wrap in one go. I do it on an evening DH is out (usually his Christmas party). I have lights on, candle lit, drink (Buck's Fizz or rum) and set up the ironing board as a work bench. I always watch Christmas films - starts with Muppets Christmas Carol and is usually followed with elf, Fred Clause or the Holiday.

Disclaimer - I find this easier as we don't buy loads. No DC here and my dad and MIL both have Homemade hampers which don't require wrapping.

All in one go. Usually make a night of it with some mulled wine, fizz, cheese and some festive tunes!

DD does all our wrapping, and wraps all at the same time.

I wrap as things are bought. I keep a list of what i have bought for who, and wrap it. My wrapping 'paper' is fabric squares or festive drawstring bags, i have many many in different sizes with lovely bolts of ribbon.

I wrap gifts for other children in paper, but ds' are in fabric, he loves seeing the same bags year after year. Stocking gifts aren't wrapped.

All at same time because I use cheap paper and it wouldn't last

(I use cheap paper because it gets ripped off and thrown away and I don't get beautiful or expensive wrapping for that reason.....before anyone asks!!)

All at once. Or if it gets a bit much, over two nights! I like to get the kids' stuff together to make sure they're about even before I wrap.

We don't buy much other than for our own children, so it's not too arduous a task in reality. It just bores me a bit! 😂

I wrap as I buy. I don’t particularly enjoy wrapping and having a huge pile to do in one go stresses me out.

Wrap in one go= I would forget what I bought.

And It's a fun thing to do. I play christmas music, pour myself a glass of mulled wine and enjoy the event.

I am an expert wrapper!
I sell 10,000 items online a year for my own business, each one is wrapped and posted, so christmas wrapping is chicken feed.

Wrap in batches here. December for us involves wrapping over 150 presents so no way could we do it in one go.

However, I agree that they get tatty if you do them too early. If you have to do them early, line a box with bubble wrap and carefully packe them in so they can’t move around.

All at once on the ironing board-perfect height, and Christmas with the kranks on the telly.

Don't really have many to wrap, family oversees are sent cash, we pay into savings accounts for children across the family, then to their own, nominated accounts once they grow up ( a major rite of passage for becoming an adult in our family).

Christmas in our house starts at 3pm on Christmas Eve, when the boy soprano's voice soars into 'Once in Royal David's city' to start the carols from Kings College, Cambridge. That's it, we are home for Christmas, no more shopping or driving or stressing generally, if it hasn't got done by now, it will just have to wait til after the holiday. We are here and welcome all comers, if we leave the house it will be on foot. After years of travelling a lot, especially last minute around Christmas, it really is bliss.

The few presents that remain are exquisitely wrapped while listening to the nine lessons and carols on the radio. Listening to the carols from Kings on Christmas Eve is one of my earliest memories, roasting chestnuts then trying peel them while they were still far too hot to handle.

I wrap all at the same time, I'll only wrap in December and after I've put the decorations up! I love wrapping the presents.

This thread is making me feel so Christmassy I like to make an occasion of it. Wrap all in one/ two goes with some Christmas tunes on and some Christmassy nibbles/ drink

pascha I'm taking it as a number goes on the gift or bag it's in, not a name tag, until the end. Then there's a list saying '1-Pascha, 2-RuggerHug' etc. So if either of us snuck in and saw them we wouldn't know which to rattle/open a corner of to have a peep.

If only my DM had thought of such a system cackle

I spread mine over a few evenings in Dec so I can have the Christmas music or film on but not in one go because I am SHITE at wrapping and know my limits for what can look ok in an evenings work. Pushing too far leads to 'fuckit'.

All at once, but spread over a couple of evenings. Xmas film on, nice glass of wine and lights on the tree... perfect!

@elQuintoConyo I'm intrigued by your fabric squares and drawstring bags! Are the bags fabric? Do you use these for everyone or just DH and DC so you can fold up and put away for next year?

How about the squares?

I wrap all at once - stick Elf on and have a wee mulled wine and away I go!!! Last year it took me 4 hours!!!!

i wrap as i buy now, ive got a christmas notebook that goes back quite a few years, i have a page per dc and then a page for everyone else, i record all presents i want to buy under that persons page or name, once ive bought it i tick it off, then once wrapped i write a little w next to it. its really helpful as now i dont forget what ive bought and i can also look at what i bought in previous years so i dont buy the same

Wrap as i go and i have a written list of what i have got everyone

Mostly all in one go - usually when DH has his works Christmas night out. We've usually got everything bought by then, especially for the DC. I won't order anything after the middle of December incase of some sort of delivery hold up/stock issue. I get Christmas Gavin & Stacey on and set to it. I have The Book - which is a notebook where I write down what we've bought for everyone every year, we have kids paper and "grown up" paper, and I tend to put the recipient's initial somewhere inconspicuous on each present. Things that are going out of the house are kept in bags together - so things for my DPs, DS and DB together, PILs together, SIL/BIL/DNs together, etc. And wrapped gifts for the kids get kept in old big Amazon boxes with "Minecraft's old pants" written on the side

I wrap a bit at a time. My favourite time is evening during December with vh1 Christmas on, vodka and quality street close by with the Christmas lights twinkling. Often Christmas Day the kids play a traditional little game of “how hammered was mummy when she wrapped this one?!”

I normally wrap in one go but this year it'll be as i finish each person, Ive finished my nieces and picked some gorgeous paper out of next in the sales so will wrap them this week.

Dd and dh will be in October as I've not bought their paper yet... Or their presents

I wrap in batches, once I've got a few to do I wrap them, I have a spreadsheet so I don't forget what I've bought. DDs stocking fillers usually go into a bag as I buy then and then they're wrapped in one go this is the only wrapping I leave to the last minute, I've been burned before leaving it for one big festive wrapping evening and then someone turns up with a present and theirs isn't wrapped and one year a close family member was I'll, life went pear shaped and it all got stressful.

As I go. I take a photo of each item as I buy it then mail the photo to a secret email address that no-one else knows about then delete photos off phone. Each mail has then persons name as the title. Been doing it for years. Not been caught yet🛍🎁🎄