Does this look equal? I’m panicking for no reason I’m sure but please help

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OK, so attached I have a picture of my DC’s Christmas gifts laid out on the bed! I definitely think the left-hand pile looks like more and it is more, 22 in total but some v v small, compared to the other pile which is 14.

Now their dad does have some gift for them also that we will add to those piles. I just don’t know how many he has for each of them, so assuming he has equal amounts that means my DD will still have more. Maybe I should get my a few other small things like a pack of football cards etc?!

1st world problem I know!!
also I don’t do stockings…so this is it.
help 🤣😅

Same! How miserable it ours be.

im mid 40’s and would also be bitterly disappointed if my gifts weren’t wrapped!

Don’t you appreciate that each family has their own little quirks and traditions? Neither is right or wrong. There is no no Must Do guide to Christmas.

as well as tissues (which are actually fir the Eve box, feel free to judge me on that too 😁), I’ve wrapped up root ginger as a joke for teen (she’s obsessed with ginger to protect her singing voice) and a mini pud for another….and a cheese melt thing fir the third.

even the coins get wrapped in our house.

Can you wrap up some sweets or something? I’m sure they won’t notice or care as they’re old enough to understand that everything has different costs but if it’s bugging you!

Its always funny people with zero experience talk about how 'miserable' other people traditions are. Just because your small minded enough to not be able to imagine it doesn't mean you are better or right.

There was nothing miserable about our unwrapped Christmas, my mam turned the downstairs into Santa's toy shop with everything out read to play with, no waiting and faffing. That moment of a visual smorgasbord of everything cannot be beat by a piles of identical paper. Do you think kids would be disappointed walking into a toy shop or soft pay because stuff not wrapped, no they just want to see everything and play.

We added in some traditions so have some wrapped presents under the tree, stocking, sack etc... but all the big and visually impressive ones are unwrapped and ready to play just as it was growing up. I'm not taking away that wonder by putting wrapping on it or wasting all Christmas day putting stuff together while the kids sit board and wait.

As some who has done both I can say my teen enjoys opening wrapped things and wrapped works for adults but the little ones get board tearing off paper again and again... they run off half way through to play with the visual stuff that all ready so we usually take a break for them to recover and refocus on the task of unwrapping.