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

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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?

Oh god! I guess I need to re-wrap. If I do it really carefully I can save the paper for next year. Gah - another job on the list!
Thanks for your replies

My Dad enjoys telling the story that when I was 3 I asked why Father Christmas used the same wrapping paper as last year!

Glad you decided to re wrap, it's a nuisance but worth it.

Re-wrap. In our house the Santa presents are wrapped extra specially with bows and ribbons and special paper. Mine would notice.

I noticed this one year as a child. My parents told me Santa had had an issue at the factory and contacted my parents to say we all had presents but the elves would not have time to wrap and if my presents were dropped off late on Xmas eve could my parents wrap them for us all. I was over the moon that my parents had done this. I think it made my Christmas

Yes.

Can't yours also be from Santa? In our house Santa brings them all (but we send him a list of ideas).

I leave wrapping paper out for Father Christmas - he always uses what we have.

Oh she’d absolutely notice! It was one of the (many) give aways for me as a child.

The other give aways included items still having a price label from the shop across the road, the sound of my mum frantically wrapping at 11pm Christmas Eve in her bedroom next to mine, also the quick swapping of opened presents that had been put in the wrong stockings (bearing in mind my dad got a stocking too this often went very wrong!).

I have never overthought or over explained Santa and ds(17) still "believes" 🤣

I wouldn't have rewrapped and if ds mentioned I would simply have said wow santa has the same paper as us!

I noticed this one year, aged 4 or 5. I felt incredibly impressed that my parents had bought the wrapping paper as FC

If it is just one child you could scrunch them in foil, so quicker to rewrap and then recycle the foil.

My daughter was 5 when she remembered the wrapping from Santa was the same as last years wrapping from us . She told me that she doesn’t now think Santa is real and told her 3 year old brother….to save me the trouble!! That was 23 years ago and we still laugh about it as a family. So my advice is …rewrap!!

It's part of Santas magic - his wrapping paper magically changes to match the home. Like hogwarts robes change once you're sorted into a house.

I did this one year and the kids didn't notice. At least one child would have been six.

These days I keep a note of whose gifts are wrapped in which paper so that the stocking gifts are all the same paper and people have different paper each year.

Do whatever will cause you least stress be it rewrap, leave as is or wrap over the top with another sheet of paper. Maybe stick a bow on yours if you leave to make some difference.

Oh gosh, I would have to reward, I'm afraid.

Mine are teenagers now, and there's still a couple of presents in different paper 'from Santa' 😂

I also wrap their gifts in different paper for each child, so I don't have to label them, they just get told which paper belongs to which child

Santa always wraps in bright coloured tissue paper. He buys the large packs from £shop. Everyone knows that.

You could just save the aggro and just not wrap the Santa presents?

I don’t really understand the point of wrapping them for a maximum period of, what, ten minutes between the kids walking in through the door and the final gift being opened?

yes but it's just because you & Santa have the same taste & shop in the same place

Santa always uses plain gold coloured wrapping paper in this house (& gold pen if names needed)- realised early I needed a system as I have very sceptical children 😂

Definitely use different wrapping paper, I tend to use coloured tissue paper for santa's presents and a different colour for each child, so I know when wrapped whose are whose.

I didn't wrap last year and they weren't happy (I blamed Covid and shortage of wrapping paper) , but it got mentioned in their letters to Santa that they prefer their their presents wrapped!

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You could just save the aggro and just not wrap the Santa presents?

I don’t really understand the point of wrapping them for a maximum period of, what, ten minutes between the kids walking in through the door and the final gift being opened?

Because part of the fun is in the unwrapping.

My brother and I noticed that one of the items Santa brought was the free gift that had been 'missing' from a comic from the stack we'd been given for the long drive to our holiday the previous summer...we would absolutely have noticed the same wrapping paper!

I got busted this way - had done separate wrapping paper for years then DD came across last years santa paper! Whoops!

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I got busted this way - had done separate wrapping paper for years then DD came across last years santa paper! Whoops!

Ah, see we've had some years when Santa has sometimes left spare, leftover wrapping paper that he doesn't need anymore, just in case you have anything else to wrap and have run out 😉

I think it was one of the things that made my son twig the truth. That and the fact the toys were available at Tesco: 'mum, does Santa shop at Tesco? Wait, mum, are YOU Santa'??