Do you wrap stocking gifts?

[SamanthaVimes]

I’m looking at all the things I have to wrap and wondering if I can not wrap the stocking gifts because the stocking itself is like wrapping?

My mum always wrapped everything for us but my eldest is only 2 so it’s the first year we’re doing a stocking and I’m thinking I could save myself a job.

would it be grinchy to not wrap them? Obviously I’ll wrap anything that doesn’t go in the stocking

Nope... the stocking is the wrapping and I aint got time for that.

I'm already wrapping 53 bloody gifts am I feck messing around with little stocking fillers.

I do, but my best friend decided about 4 years ago she has had enough of wrapping and just stopped! She has 3 from age 5-9 and they don’t seem to care at all. She puts stuff in a stocking on the bed then they have a Santa sack each under the tree, anything that doesn’t fit she makes a display of like a toy shop. She doesn’t wrap any birthday presents either, just sets up a lovely display of presents for them to come in and find.

No. The stocking is the wrapping. Never heard of it until mumsnet. Life is too short to wrap a bouncy ball and pack of pencils.

I guess I'm also coming at this from the perspective of someone who enjoys wrapping and doesn't find it the huge chore that many do.

I never had stockings as a child so I am still living my dreams of perfect stockings through my DC. I use tissue paper (ideally red & white stripe) and stick with Christmas stickers.

Only in tissue paper - no tape or ribbons. That's what my mum did so I've carried on the tradition.

Definitely wrap. And it has to be a different wrapping paper to the other presents. I invested in a Santa wrapping paper when mine was a baby, bought loads and loads of rolls so Santa always uses the same paper. She guessed Santa wasn't real when she was 4 😂

That’s why you saved last year’s wrapping paper, smoothed it out and put it away safely!

Also, it slows down the stocking opening, enabling you to sip your tea in bed as your legs are crushed by small bouncing people.

Of course. Unwrapping presents is the best bit of the day. So we wrap literally everything.

Apart from the tangerine and the bag of chocolate money, yes of course.

Never.

I wrap them in tissue paper, and am really slapdash. I buy a job lot of large sheets of tissue paper (50cm x 75cm) on Amazon and secure the wrapping with a personalised sticker. I bought loads years ago, they say ‘to x, from Santa’ so that I can tell the difference between Dh’s, Ds1’s and ds2’s gifts. Other than that I would buy once colour of tissue paper per person.

This! The fun is in tearing through the stocking at speed surely. Wrapping will just slow you down. Kids get a stocking and one present from Father Christmas, ie something they wrote on their Xmas list to Santa. All other gifts from us. So brown paper for that Santa gift.

Yes, always in tissue paper for the rustly noise because that's how Father Christmas always did it for me

Oh God now I feel mean as I’ve never wrapped stocking presents. That’s another 2 dozen things to wrap tomorrow 😧

Always. Though I only have one child and she has 6-8 things in her stocking, I may feel differently if i had 20 things to wrap. I do think though just tipping it out like a swag bag of stuff.

We do, unwrapping is part of the fun I think.

I wrap everything as that’s what my mum did when I was younger, we used to love unwrapping everything

Same. Only tissue paper. Usually white but sometimes I go wild with gold stars

Yes but considering not this year. Just too much to do. The bags are a good idea so may do that. Mine are older so not true believers

What are the stocking presents? I'm going half and half this year... wrapping the "bigger" things like the shower gel and mini science kit, but not the chocolate coins for example.

Yes this. It boggles me that folks would wrap stuff in a stocking.

Always. Squeezing the stocking and hearing and feeling that rustle of paper is one of the most magical Christmas memories I have. It just brings it all back for me :)
Also it means I get an extra 10 minutes to wake up 😂

Reading on here the last few days is the first time I've heard of not wrapping gifts. My Mum always wrapped the none chocolate/food items and I've always done the same. Unwrapping is a big part of the excitement for children I think.

The red tissue paper is a great idea! I've always been mindful to use and hide a separate wrapping paper to any other I use.