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Do you wrap stocking fillers?

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Pottytrainhelp · 19/12/2022 12:43

I normally do wrap them but not sure I can be bothered this year so was curious what other people do.

I think part of it is also that we’ve done a mix of little fun gifts & practical gifts for the kids (1 & 6). I think the 6 yr old would be a bit disappointed to unwrap mouthwash 😂

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OnLockdown · 19/12/2022 16:32

upfucked · 19/12/2022 15:00

Yes but in green and red tissue paper it’s much quicker.

I do exactly this. No sellotape.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 19/12/2022 16:34

I wrap stocking fillers - when the boys were little, it made the stocking opening last longer, and now it’s just habit.

notacooldad · 19/12/2022 16:36

Yes. Always

2bazookas · 19/12/2022 16:39

Some like books get wrapped. The gold coins (choc) are always loose down the toe; then the rest of the bits are either wrapped or not depending on my gin intake, patience and their texture. Half the fun is tactile, arm down the stocking feeling and squeezing the treasure before they know what it is.. I collect daft stocking fillers (and recycled wrappings) all year round.

This year someone's stocking will include a cool bit of charity shop vintage "jewelry" (50p) strung on new red ribbon; wrapped in some old, ironed, pretty tissue paper tied with old ribbon from a bouquet; and placed inside an old embroidered silk drawstring bag. I know she's going to enjoy the glamourous wrapping as much as the necklace. Or maybe more :-) GS's stocking will include a large fake slug with an absolutely disgusting texture .... not wrapped. He'll love his fingers finding that slithery corpse deep in the depths.

TwoRockSalmonAndAHaporthOfChips · 19/12/2022 16:43

2bazookas · 19/12/2022 16:39

Some like books get wrapped. The gold coins (choc) are always loose down the toe; then the rest of the bits are either wrapped or not depending on my gin intake, patience and their texture. Half the fun is tactile, arm down the stocking feeling and squeezing the treasure before they know what it is.. I collect daft stocking fillers (and recycled wrappings) all year round.

This year someone's stocking will include a cool bit of charity shop vintage "jewelry" (50p) strung on new red ribbon; wrapped in some old, ironed, pretty tissue paper tied with old ribbon from a bouquet; and placed inside an old embroidered silk drawstring bag. I know she's going to enjoy the glamourous wrapping as much as the necklace. Or maybe more :-) GS's stocking will include a large fake slug with an absolutely disgusting texture .... not wrapped. He'll love his fingers finding that slithery corpse deep in the depths.

This is good stockinging.

Please can you do one for me, too? 😁

snugglyblanket · 19/12/2022 16:43

Yes, in tissue paper with no tape. Same paper every year because no tape means it doesn't gets ripped.

DownToTheSeaAgain · 19/12/2022 16:44

I consider not wrapping to be a form of child neglect

TheChosenTwo · 19/12/2022 16:49

Always wrapped everything except the satsuma and the chocolate coins.
mine was always wrapped so I do the same for my dc.
they have pillowcases with between 20-30 things in - it really doesn’t take me long though, I’m a bit of a wrapping ninja!

Dreamwhisper · 19/12/2022 16:50

Yep, each teeny item is wrapped, it's part of the fun Halo

HeyManIJustWantSomeMuesli · 19/12/2022 16:53

Apart from things like loose chocolate coins, yes; in christmassy tissue paper

TheYummyPatler · 19/12/2022 16:54

I’d never consider putting mouthwash in a stocking.

Strokethefurrywall · 19/12/2022 16:56

I wrap everything!

maddy68 · 19/12/2022 16:59

Yes. That's the fun

Bogglebrain · 19/12/2022 17:13

No. It’s not something I’d ever considered. My wasn’t as a child either- but you still got the rustling sound of everything.

DuchessOfDisco · 19/12/2022 23:06

Everything is wrapped in paper bags except the satsuma and chocolate coins. I use these paper bags
www.temptationgifts.com/east-of-india-pack-of-50-paper-bags

SingingSands · 19/12/2022 23:53

I save up tissue paper from deliveries and presents throughout the year then use that to wrap stocking presents. Makes it more interesting when the tissue paper says "Dior" and wrapped inside is a Terry's Chocolate Orange 🍊 haha!

poshme · 19/12/2022 23:58

nowtygaffer · 19/12/2022 13:35

I wrap in tissue paper. Doesn't need sellotape, just wrap round and shove in!

That's genius! My family didn't wrap, DH's did. Sadly he won.
(I have to do all the wrapping)

poshme · 20/12/2022 00:01

@Izipizi I could've written your post word for word!

poshme · 20/12/2022 00:04

DownToTheSeaAgain · 19/12/2022 16:44

I consider not wrapping to be a form of child neglect

Well DH had everything wrapped as a child- but it was in a pillow case.

Now my stocking was an old long ski sock- long and thin. Nothing wrapped, but the fun was reaching down inside to find what was there. I thought he was missing out of the delving down the sock- he could just upend his. I had to rummage.

YuliaJollyberry · 20/12/2022 09:21

Yes we do in a combination of tissue and crepe paper and wrapping paper except for the candy cane or lolly and festive chocolate figure sticking out of the top.

caringcarer · 20/12/2022 09:22

Everything wrapped.

TearsNReindeers · 20/12/2022 12:25

Roughly wrapped with cheap paper or coloured tissue paper.

FallHappy1 · 21/12/2022 06:44

I do wrap but on tissue paper and not wrapping paper, found you can get more gifts in the stocking that way

lightisnotwhite · 21/12/2022 07:11

2bazookas · 19/12/2022 16:39

Some like books get wrapped. The gold coins (choc) are always loose down the toe; then the rest of the bits are either wrapped or not depending on my gin intake, patience and their texture. Half the fun is tactile, arm down the stocking feeling and squeezing the treasure before they know what it is.. I collect daft stocking fillers (and recycled wrappings) all year round.

This year someone's stocking will include a cool bit of charity shop vintage "jewelry" (50p) strung on new red ribbon; wrapped in some old, ironed, pretty tissue paper tied with old ribbon from a bouquet; and placed inside an old embroidered silk drawstring bag. I know she's going to enjoy the glamourous wrapping as much as the necklace. Or maybe more :-) GS's stocking will include a large fake slug with an absolutely disgusting texture .... not wrapped. He'll love his fingers finding that slithery corpse deep in the depths.

This is how my mother does them too! Even though I get the same stocking to put things in every year it has a different decoration on it. An old price of sparkly jewellery, a lovely Christmas decoration or bauble or some stunning ribbon she’s found.
This continues into the stocking. She’s posted mine to me this year as I’ll not see her before the day. She also put a couple of decorations I could open beforehand ; a beautiful grey felt plant pot with a cork Christmas tree inlayed on it and a soft knitted bulldog tree ornament with a Santa's hat. No idea where she finds these things. Always wrapped in the nicest of last years tissue, too good to throw out.

I do feel a bit sad for people who consider extra effort on things like wrapping a waste.

Rcnotro · 21/12/2022 07:19

No. They get a present from Father Christmas outside the stocking which is wrapped (in his own special retro paper) and maybe one or two other things will be wrapped but not the rest.
No tipping out here, they reach in and take things out one at a time