Stocking gifts. Wrapped or not?

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We are a childfree house. We have teens coming for Xmas and I'm making them a stocking. Chocs, notebooks, key rings, lip balms, tester sized toiletries etc. I can't remember if stocking gifts are wrapped or not?
Help!

Not wrapped. Far too many tiny little bits and pieces to wrap, and I think it makes it a bit different to the rest of the main gifts that are wrapped downstairs.

My parents never wrapped mine either

As it's a new situation (and teens) you can decide! Depends on what you prefer and if you've got time.

I wrap for my kids stockings (except choc coins) but that stems from my childhood when our stocking gifts weren't wrapped and was envious to hear from friends at school whose were. I hasten to add this was at primary school, I doubt is have been bothered as a teen! My kids are now past the "believing" stage and I still wrap, because it's what I've always done, but sometimes I wish I'd never started!

I will say that wrapping the stocking gifts makes that phase of the day last a bit longer. We are one of the "odd/miserable" households (see other thread) who have main presents after lunch so stocking presents are a big morning event for us. We all get one, even adults!

Wrapped. Unwrapping is half the fun.

I've always recycled the paper from previous years. When the DC were little, I used paper from a few year's prior, but once they'd worked out that Father Christmas was in fact me, I began using more recent paper...

I'm one of those people who wraps presents in stockings, and also in gift bags. The only things I don't wrap are if it is say a toy train/cute tin with chocolates inside. I also don't wrap chocolate coins as I open those out and pour into the stockings.. I also don't wrap candy canes as I place them in the stockings, and around the gifts.
Anything else I wrap, including sweets. I think it adds to the fun! I am a really fast wrapper though, wrapped both my dc's presents in acouple of hours, and they get a lot! Once I have all of the wrappings out I plough through them in minutes!

I have good system going, separate the stocking gifts into a bag for each child; it makes it so easy. I have a hiding place downstairs where I wrap, so no going in the loft like my parents did on Christmas eve! Adult gifts go under the tree.

This.

I do stocking presents in tissue paper though, no need to cut it, just wrap each item in a couple of sheets.

Unwrapped for us, I'm team 'the stocking is the wrapping'.

Nothing I put in stockings is really wrappable stuff though. Who wraps chocolate coins, yorkie bar, chocolate orange, stickers, little £1 novelty toys etc...

I get wrapping more if its a luxury one for adults with say perfume, jewellery in boxes, gift sets etc... in it and they aren't getting other presents.

Santa presents aren’t wrapped in our house. So unwrapped. Less trouble, expense, and waste.

Definitely wrapped but not well and with rubbish paper

I prefer wrapped, I use plain coloured paper, a different colour for each child.
They sit together, tip out the contents and can still tell whose is whose.
I do throw in a handful of silver and gold chocolate coins, a candy cane, a few pick and mix Lindt balls (carefully chosen for each child, they have very different tastes), and an orange unwrapped through.

Wrapped!! The excitement of unwrapping is the best bit!

Gifts from Santa are unwrapped.
Gifts under the tree are wrapped.
Agree with PP that it's a complete faff and an awful waste of paper.

Always wrapped in tissue paper so you get that lovely rustle sound.

Yep, always have wrapped and always will.. find it a bit anti climatic just pulling them out of the stocking if they aren’t wrapped. Love the excitement and wonder on dc face when they pull out a prezzie.

I used to wrap, but last year I learned from MN that it's ok to leave unwrapped so I didn't... and DS7 at the time complained and asked 'why did Santa not wrap the presents???'
So going back to wrapping again, with tissue paper or cheap different paper.

Eldest 23, my youngest two are 17 and this is the first year I’m even contemplating not wrapping stocking presents… wonder if I’ll actually be brave enough 🤔

Wrapped but in Christmassy paper bags or tissue paper. Ends scrunched not neatly cut/taped.

Basically growing up my house was an 'everything must be wrapped cause otherwise it's opened in thirty seconds' house but DH's was a 'who has the time?!' house and this is our compromise.

I dont wrap the things in a stocking, the stocking is the wrapping.

Definitely wrapped. It’s a faff but I do it because I used to love unwrapping as a child and trying to guess what each thing was. My kids love unwrapping too.

Unwrapped. We consider the stocking to
be the wrapping. They’re big stockings that are stuffed full so there’s no tipping out, things are pulled out and looked at one at a time. The present from Father Christmas is wrapped though.

More like scrunched into tissue paper. Not actual wrapping with cellotape as I cannot face it. But anything that makes it take longer than 0.05 seconds works for me

We wrap a few toys but not sweets

Didn’t have wrapping as a child but for some reason started doing it for my own. Regret it! My top tips are start a tradition of stockings by the fireplace rather than the bed so you don’t have to do the creeping around thing. And have two identical ones for you can just swap a filled one for an empty one as pp said.

Never wrapped stocking gifts

Mine were never wrapped.

I always wrapped my DS'.

It was in red Santa paper as Santa brings those gifts

Don't think there's a right or wrong on this one tbh. They'll be grateful for the effort.