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.

I bought a heap of those striped paper sweet bags in different sizes from eBay years ago. Each child has their own colour and I just stick the gift in and sellotape and job is done. 👍

Tissue paper in a different colour for each child, or back when they were little, cheap thin paper from the cheap card shop

I used to gift wrap them in special Santa paper or tissue paper, it varied.

Each child everything wrapped in their own specific wrapping paper so I don’t get confused

My parents never wrapped stocking presents. I only heard of it as an adult talking to a work colleague deciding what paper to get for each child. My mind was blown.
We just have rolls of paper and you crack on if you’re wrapping something. I can’t watch my sister wrapping, she uses huge sheets of paper for tiny presents.

Have bought assorted seasonally coloured paper sweetie bags from eBay which you can just twist the present into and 99% of the time it will stay. Very occasionally it will need a tiny bit of sellotape or a sticker but usually it’s fine.
sometimes the bags get ripped but as the dc have got older they usually survive and many have done several Christmases.
i wrap most things but not all - the tangerine (or chocolate orange these days after too many satsumas got left to go many upstairs), the net of chocolate coins, a couple of classy chocs (the smarties shaker Robin, the Malteser Reiner etc) and a couple of more boring bits like toothpaste or a school pen don’t get wrapped too much out up a bit.

Must years there has been one individual paper for each dc and one from Santa - but note the dc are older and the presents are smaller, going to have a year or two of using up oddments that I already have. I’ve also discovered that now if I have some thin paper rolls of wrapping, if I cut the rolls through the diameter approx half to a third of the way along it speeds up wrapping as lots of the presents can be wrapped with a single cut off the length of the paper. Wouldn’t have been so good when the DC were little and toys for little dc came in much bigger boxes but these days it really helps!

Stocking presents should not be wrapped

I always had different, cheaper! paper for stockings when they still believed. And the things were rather more scrappily wrapped. No point in too much care when it was all torn off so fast.

I wrap most stocking things in tissue paper. Some things don't get wrapped - I wouldn't wrap a clementine for example - but most do. Glick make some really lovely ones. I can see why people wouldn't bother, especially if they've loads of things to wrap and/or they dislike wrapping anyway. If you've limited time or finding wrapping a faff, fair enough, makes sense.
I love wrapping, I love making the presents look even more appealing and drawing out the anticipation a little longer, and I love browsing and shopping for wrapping paper and tissue paper, ribbons, etc. It's a win-win for me