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Will DD notice the same wrapping paper from Santa and me?

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Anycolourwilldo · 13/12/2021 08:35

Feeling very smug that I've already bought and wrapped all presents (this has never happened so early in December before).
However, I've realised all presents are wrapped in the same paper - the presents we're giving family, the presents from Santa and the presents to DD from us.
She's 6 - will she notice? My mum thinks I should rewrap her presents from Santa but I think that's a total waste of wrapping paper.
Thoughts?

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NameChangeCity123 · 13/12/2021 09:31

Yep! This was an issue my aunty had and she really struggled to sidetrack my cousin

clartins · 13/12/2021 09:38

@WeatherwaxLives either I’ve not thought enough about this or you’ve thought too much. Either way I hope you weren’t too traumatised by the whole satsuma incident (I must be a terrible parent in the eyes of MN, no gifts from Santa and no satsuma in this house. Whilst I’m confessing, I never took them to visit Santa when they were little either) but my DC are happy and well adjusted and love Christmas. Wishing you a great Christmas with your loved ones.

Notatwite · 13/12/2021 09:41

Definitely depends on the child. How observant is DD normally? Is she very inquisitive etc. I’d not risk it. Can you unwrap carefully enough to reuse the wrapping paper ?

Coldlight · 13/12/2021 09:44

Santa is magic and wraps to match everyone’s house if they wish it so but uses his own paper if you don’t mind non matching. He finds it helps with sorting out which presents belong in which house too. Xmas Grin

ThanksIGotItInMorrisons · 13/12/2021 09:46

If she notices , “mummy tells Santa what paper we are using so he can make his look the same “. Worked on my kids. I just made sure the tags were clearly different with different writing.

Tayegete · 13/12/2021 09:47

DD (now 15) told me at the weekend- she found out about Santa by seeing DH bringing in a roll of wrapping paper and putting it in the loft and then seeing it on her presents from Santa. I would re-wrap. I’m considering re-wrapping DS’s even though he’s 11 and I’m certain he knows.

TulipsGarden · 13/12/2021 09:49

You'll have to re-wrap. That's how I confirmed my suspicions at a similar age. My dad threw the Father Christmas wrapping paper down from the loft the next Christmas and I thought 'Huh, that's what Father Christmas used. Oh...'

Sorry! I did keep up the pretense for a couple more years for my parents' benefit Grin

RowanAlong · 13/12/2021 09:50

Haha- mine totally would notice, and comment! Rewrap I reckon! X

IMarchToADifferentDrummer · 13/12/2021 09:51

Tell her Santa must have forgotten to check which paper you were using and used the same one!
Santa is, afterall, a very busy man and he did try to choose paper he thought she would like!!
You could put lots of little sticky bows on, too!

Prescottdanni123 · 13/12/2021 09:52

I'd rewrap. When I was 9/10, this was one of the biggest factors in me figuring out that he wasn't real. I don't know if my mum was trying to give me subtle hints by using the same wrapping paper that year, or if she had always done that and it just suddenly clicked.

Bagelsandbrie · 13/12/2021 09:53

They have to have different paper, preferably one she hasn’t seen round the shops. I made the mistake of using a Tesco one one year when dd was about 6 and she was Hmm to find that Santa shops at Tesco….

ChildrenGrowingUpTooFast · 13/12/2021 09:55

I don't wrap Santa's present. My children noticed and I just tell them that Santa's elf ran out of time wrapping everything. Do you prefer getting unwrapped presents or nothing?

wonkylegs · 13/12/2021 09:59

Our 5yo (year 1) would definitely notice. Our 13yo would be oblivious (now and at 5,6,7 etc)
It would depend on, how convincing you think you'd be if you styled it out.
Ohh FC must buy the same paper.... etc

I always buy a separate roll and store it hidden in my wardrobe with the the Santa presents.

Practicebeingpatient · 13/12/2021 09:59

I noticed this very thing when I was about 7. It had probably happened in earlier years but I didn't see it. At 7 I was already suspicious of the Santa myth and this was confirmation! However I had little brothers and sisters so I kept quiet as I didn't want to spoil things for them.

Loudestcat14 · 13/12/2021 10:00

Definitely re-wrap. Mine would've noticed at that age.

User135792468 · 13/12/2021 10:01

@Nevertime Maybe, I just really don’t like the really cheap wrapping paper. The brown paper is cheap and then some ribbon from hobby craft. It would seem a shame to waste the nice, expensive wrapping paper 😂

evilharpy · 13/12/2021 10:01

Santa left the big presents when I was a child (which seems to have been the norm back then, certainly in my bit of Ireland anyway) and they were never wrapped up. Presents from everyone else went under the tree but presents from Santa were left near where I hung up my stocking beside the fireplace. It never occurred to me that they should have been wrapped.

We do wrap ours but Santa has different paper to anyone else.

TabithaTiger · 13/12/2021 10:02

This is one of the 'clues' that helped me work out he wasn't real!

SeasonFinale · 13/12/2021 10:02

@Anycolourwilldo

Feeling very smug that I've already bought and wrapped all presents (this has never happened so early in December before). However, I've realised all presents are wrapped in the same paper - the presents we're giving family, the presents from Santa and the presents to DD from us. She's 6 - will she notice? My mum thinks I should rewrap her presents from Santa but I think that's a total waste of wrapping paper. Thoughts?
My Mum always said they had to send the paper to Santa
VikingsandDragons · 13/12/2021 10:08

Yes, re wrap. My son (7) this year went to see a different santa to last year. This year's one had a thick Geordie accent. Afterwards he came out and looked at me suspiciously and said 'he looks like santa, but how come he sounds completely different to last year? People's voices don't change like that'. Stumped.

Tal45 · 13/12/2021 10:12

You could pretend to be really chuffed that you had bought the same wrapping paper as Father Christmas this year?

stalkersaga · 13/12/2021 10:14

My 5yo found "Santa's" wrapping paper hidden in a drawer and it clearly gave him doubts. So, yes, IME.

Angel2702 · 13/12/2021 10:18

Definitely if not now when she looks at photos. I’ve always had special paper for stockings never used for anything else. I keep it in the loft and wrap the stocking presents up there so they never see the paper downstairs.

00100001 · 13/12/2021 10:29

@Bushkin

Definitely! Santa always uses his own wrapping paper. Also please don’t take PP advice to leave them unwrapped, that would be such an anti climax
Loads of people do santa presents unwrapped ...

They're often are things like.. bikes, play houses, trainsets or whatever and are all set up ready to go.

00100001 · 13/12/2021 10:32

I must have been a unobservant kid, I never noticed anything about wrapping paper. I couldn't tell you if FC gifts were wrapped differently... I'd have to ask DF