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 dont wrap anything in stocking. Always have a soft toy poking out the top.

See I just dont see how or why we would wrap the things I put in ours, this year that included:

• a novelty spoon
• a multi ink pen
• a fan
• a mug each
• stickers each
• teddy each
• chocolate coins
• chocolate orange
• other sweets

etc...

non are in boxes so everything would just be so awkward, small and fiddly to wrap... I mean who wraps a spoon or a pen or a sheet of stickers? lol

Never.

No we've never wrapped them, our parents didn't either, dd doesn't wrap up dgds. The way it's always been from my family's christmas is nothing is wrapped from Father christmas, not the stocking or the gift from the man himself. The contents of the stocking always included enough to buy the extra time in bed. The tree gift from Fc usually has a big red velvet bow on, or in recent years led line wire lights wrapped around. The only wrapped presents are from family or ourselves.

Yes, except for a cuddly toy which sticks out the top. But I don't wrap them well 😆

I wrap stocking gifts in tissue paper, usually only a few small items as most of the stocking is sweets. Super quick to wrap, slows down opening the stocking and bulks up smaller items a little.

No. My parents didn’t and I have just followed.

I do a mix- I don’t wrap stuff like the mini can of drink, or the choc coins etc, but I’ll wrap small toys, socks, activity books etc

i always use a completely separate wrapping paper from the other stuff I use for big presents and I always wrap them very rushed and haphazard(cos Santa hasn’t time to wrap perfectly 😂) , takes literally seconds to wrap something, takes a awhile to do x 4 but it drags it out for the younger ones and I think it’s more exciting to get to unwrap it than open it and see it all at once 🤷🏻‍♀️

We do because it slows them down. Hence more time for coffee to kick in because they have already opened a few things.

Yes aside from the chocolate goodies and in same paper as main Santa gift ,

Yes. Even for DH and he wraps mine.

Yes contents are wrapped in a combination of tissue and crepe paper and a special printed paper per person. I don’t wrap the candy cane, chocolate festive shape or iced gingerbread biscuit poking out of the top.

I wrap as otherwise it's all dumped out on the bed in three seconds.

But I started out 'rough wrapping' in tissue paper - one colour per person, paper mostly scrunched round and a tiny bit of sellotape. Then last year someone on here recommended paper bags. Got coloured ones off eBay in two sizes for around a tenner. Things went in one or the other with a little tape to seal. Game changing time saver.

Four stockings done in half an hour, bags all recyclable and Chicken family happiness restored (Mr C pulls his weight at Christmas but his family did not wrap stocking gifts when he was little, he hates wrapping and us sitting for hours sorting them the last few years was the saddest/grumpiest he got at Christmas prep).

I don’t. They have a stocking on their bedroom doors which I put chocolate in so they can get back in their beds and have their chocolate (buys me some extra time to wake up and get sorted before we go downstairs). They then have a stocking over the fireplace which has boring bits they need like bobbles, socks, underwear etc. I don’t wrap these either because they’re not very exciting.