Stocking fillers - wrapping paper

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Growing up my mum did '10 things for £10' for our stockings, and each item was wrapped in different paper.

10 things for a tenner is completely unattainable for my son's stocking, but as I was wrapping his bits yesterday I realised I still try to do most of them in different paper. I definitely didn't have 10 different rolls of paper though so he got some doubled up.

Do you do different paper for each stocking item? Or all items in the same but different for each person? Or something else? Curious to see if the different paper thing is a must have or just something my mum did.

When DC were little I had a separate roll of paper for stocking fillers (lasted years) but they were all wrapped in the same paper, except sweets or chocolate.

Gifts from santa are wrapped in different paper and in a sack

Tissue paper scrunched round and secured with a sticker. So much quicker especially with 3 DC's

We save the used wrapping paper from the previous year (if there are any sizeable un-ripped pieces) and use it again for the next year's stocking presents. We call it Santa paper! Over the years the selection of Santa paper grows and you'll be able to wrap all the stocking gifts in different paper.

We have some pieces that were first used for Christmas 2012 still going around!

I never wrap stocking fillers, my parents never did growing up either. Too small, and too many little bits and pieces (probably more than ten) so I'm relieved that we don't!

Never done stockings although I am this year

I'll use same wrap.

I never did separate wrap for presents either.

Everything was from Santa.

Always wrap sticks cling fillers in tissue paper, the exciting crunch and crackle at stupid o'clock in the morning when the kids get up! Magic! ✨

Sticking fillers lol

I've never wrapped stocking fillers. They are wrapped by virtue of being in the stocking.

Stocking fillers.... just for the record we don't wrap sticks, we don't give sticks.... though my son is currently obsessed with stick man!

Those packs of large sheets of multicoloured tissue paper from place like B&M are the only thing I wrap stocking presents in.

Easy to rip open for younger kids, easy to keep going over the years and cheap as chips.

I’m learning about so many different Xmas traditions on mumsnet, it makes my childhood xmases seem pretty boring. We got a pillowcase full of presents, a Xmas tree and maybe a family argument if we were lucky

Haha no. I’m laughing because it’s made me consider my own wrapping and it’s just as ritualistic. One type for DS. Another for DD. Another wrapping paper that is used for everyone else. DH and I not currently doing big gifts but Santa (me) brings stockings for me, DH and DBIL. No wrapping used these, it’s a dig in and see what there is. The theme is very like your mum’s 10 for £10 (although impossible to cost this way now) - an assortment of treats, oddities and useful weird shit I’ve come across in the year. I’m aiming for laughs and enjoyment and usually that’s what we get x

We don't usually wrap stocking presents as it's the only time in the day we let the kids go feral with presents and get their excitement out. They unwrap all their presents under the tree more carefully so it's only fair!

Each person has a different wrap and another one from Father Christmas - which was one I bought loads of about 10 years ago, sadly I finished last year so I’ve had to get something else this year.
stockings are from Father Christmas so in the same wrap as that.

Ten for a tenner in 1984 quite different to ten for a tenner in 2024 though!

Everything from santa including the stocking is wrapped in red. Everything for DC1 Is in pink. Everything for DC2 is wrapped in blue.

When the youngest DC twigged about Father Christmas, "he" abandoned all forms of wrapping (such a relief!)

Before that, he would use paper kept from previous years (never duplicating what we used for wrapping up presents that went under the tree from us). Keeping wrapping paper is a good habit anyhow (reuse and reduce new) and as it may include wrappings used by eg grandparents, you'd get Santa variety that way. You can also do at least one in newspaper, one in brown paper, and one in tin foil. If you keep shop wrappings (tissue paper is useful for this) then that's another couple. And a pack of craft shop multicoloured tissue or crepe paper would probably see off the rest.

I never wrap stocking gifts. The stocking is the wrapping!

I have in the past used different paper for different people but in general they get whichever is closest and has enough paper. I was thinking about this yesterday actually, I like every colour, every bit of sparkle going for Xmas. You'd never catch me buying brown paper!

Someone on mumsnet taught me this and I pass it on- brown Christmassy paper bags. I put the gift in, fold and secure with a Santa sticker. Takes two minutes to do the whole stocking. Bloody glorious 😂😂

Why would anyone use ten different wrapping papers for stocking fillers !?

That's insane.

One roll separate to the min gifts is reasonable or no wrapping, old tissue paper / last years paper - all acceptable !

Ten different papers - insane

This, just incredibly wasteful to use paper on stuff inside stockings. Think of the environment.

The stocking is the wrapper!

So interesting to hear all the different ways people do things - I love it!

It has literally never crossed my mind that stocking fillers could be left unwrapped 🤯hahah but so true that they are in the stocking anyway!

Also extremely open to using stickers to secure, thank you to the PPs who mentioned those! I never have my sellotape on a dispenser and end up cutting hundreds of bits and sticking them off the edge of the table to grab as I go. Absolutely in the market for a more efficient way to do that!

@skinnyoptionsonly - I think much like some other PP have mentioned my mum was very much into saving bits and pieces of paper, so any off cuts she had all went into the pile for next year, so she had loads to use for small stocking fillers. I'm not as organised as her yet but think I'm going to try that this year and build up a big stockpile!

@MidnightPatrol - yes absolute nightmare trying to get even 3-4 things for a tenner in this day and age! I still try to keep it to small bits but definitely over £10 by the time it's done 😅

According to Bank of England, £10 in 1984 is worth £31.83 in October 2024

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/inflation-calculator

This is what I do 😀