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Amiable · 2025-12-04T20:11:24+00:00

DS (15) loves a particular brand of crisps, and I’ve got him 10 big bags for Christmas! I want to wrap each one disguised as something else - I need ideas! DD is making a cardboard guitar so one pack will be in that, and I’ve already thought of a giant cracker, and a huge box with tons of packing. What else can you think of? TIA

MartinCrieffsHat · 05/12/2025 11:13

@scrimblescramble , we're not saying it without reason.

DeepfriedPizza · 05/12/2025 11:23

What's the crisps you're wrapping?

Mumofsoontobe3 · 05/12/2025 11:28

Can you put in a large box, and do a blindfold pick and mix where he breaks into a hole in the box blindfolded and picks out the crisps one by one, wrapped? Does he like dips, maybe add some dips in too and other snacks? So like a big box of snacks with his favourite crisps being the 'big winner'?

Franklyannoyed · 05/12/2025 11:30

Mumofsoontobe3 · 05/12/2025 11:28

Can you put in a large box, and do a blindfold pick and mix where he breaks into a hole in the box blindfolded and picks out the crisps one by one, wrapped? Does he like dips, maybe add some dips in too and other snacks? So like a big box of snacks with his favourite crisps being the 'big winner'?

Ten times though,,,😂

happysunr1se · 05/12/2025 11:31

My DH loves crisps.

When dd was about 4yo we made a giant 1metre + size bag of crisps out of brown paper. On Xmas morning we made DH close his eyes, got the bag out and filled it with DD and about 40 bags of crisps.
When DH opened his eyes, DD jumped up out of the bag throwing crisp bags around while shouting "Happy Crisp-mas!"

That went down well.

Can you do something exciting about handing the crisps over rather than make lots of work for yourself wrapping them uniquely?

How about piling them all on the foot of the bed or something?

Mochudubh · 05/12/2025 11:40

I like the tube and sausages idea.

Could you ask a carpet shop for one of the tubes from a roll of carpet, staple (carefully) the ends of each packet to a string or ribbon and feed into the tube.

Wrap as a giant cracker.

purplecorkheart · 05/12/2025 11:44

Amiable · 04/12/2025 20:22

I’m guessing after the first 3 or 4 he will probably cotton on!

I'd be slightly worried about him if he did not.

As others have said 10 is way too much. Since your daughter has gone to the effort of making a guitar case use that and put a note about the rest.

Mumofsoontobe3 · 05/12/2025 11:44

Franklyannoyed · 05/12/2025 11:30

Ten times though,,,😂

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He might find it funny. My kids would!

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Amiable · 05/12/2025 11:47

simpsonthecat · 05/12/2025 08:14

I need to know what sort of crisps they are.

And also how or why you make a cardboard guitar!

If I had done this when my DCs were teens they would think I'd lost the plot!

They are Cheezits Snap’d Double Cheese - he can’t get enough of them!

as for the guitar- my 19 year old is an art student so loves making this sort of thing (and pranking their brother of course!)

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Amiable · 05/12/2025 11:50

Augustandeverythingafter1 · 05/12/2025 11:04

I think it could be good fun but you need to be careful it doesnt back fire.

At the risk of sounding boring, I think you need to make sure he's not going to think he's getting something he isnt iyswim? For instance he might not want a guitar but it doesnt mean he wont be disappointed if he thinks he is getting one and gets some crisps instead. Or as someone else says he might see huge boxes and then not appreciate the joke. Id put them in low value (price and desire) things or actual items that are boring but he'll use.

I'd maybe put a pack in the following

an empty box of Lynx.
in a laundry hamper
a empty box for a bike helmet/football ball /ice skates/whatever low value random sports item he would never use
an empty cheese hamper box (or other food he doesnt eat)

You know him and what he'd find funny but I'm not sure letting him think he's got really high value items to get a pack of crisps instead is particularly humorous.

He already has a guitar which he hasn’t played in years - I don’t want to do something mean like pack them into a PS5 box, to get his hopes up, just silly ideas, so thankyou for these. He will appreciate the joke, trust me

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Amiable · 05/12/2025 11:51

scrimblescramble · 05/12/2025 11:09

Oh some people need to lighten up, she knows her son and knows he will find it funny. Just because you wouldn't find it funny, doesn't mean other people won't! It's a bit of harmless fun ffs. OP has asked for ideas, not whether you would want it for Christmas

Thank you - exactly this!

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ItsNotUnusualToBe · 05/12/2025 11:52

redboxer321 · 05/12/2025 08:36

How about making a crisp kite? Attach a few bags of crisps to the balloon's string and when he opens the box, hopefully it will float up with the crisps attached. I'm a crisp lover too so would love that!

Ive done something similar. Huge box, several helium balloons with vouchers attached. Vouchers were for a mix of people and the ballon ribbons were inevitably tangled so it was fun trying to untangle and find the appropriate envelopes.

Cocktailsandcheese · 05/12/2025 11:53

MellowSnake · 04/12/2025 20:27

Just wrap them together? You’re enormously over estimating how funny this is. Once, maximum twice… as long as it’s shaped as nothing he wanted is some good fun/ surprise. Afterwards he’s just going to be disappointed to find 10 of his gifts were a packet of crisps his mother decided to do. He will look back on it and think it was extremely odd thing to do. It won’t be as funny as you’re thinking.

Agree

Mochudubh · 05/12/2025 11:55

I'm not overthinking this at all!

(That was meant to post a picture of my beautifully drawn plan of my carpet tube - cracker idea but for some reason it won't attach).

scrimblescramble · 05/12/2025 11:57

MartinCrieffsHat · 05/12/2025 11:13

@scrimblescramble , we're not saying it without reason.

OP didn’t ask for your reasonings.

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Amiable · 05/12/2025 12:00

Mochudubh · 05/12/2025 11:55

I'm not overthinking this at all!

(That was meant to post a picture of my beautifully drawn plan of my carpet tube - cracker idea but for some reason it won't attach).

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I need to see!

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Pearshapedpear · 05/12/2025 12:03

MellowSnake · 04/12/2025 20:27

Just wrap them together? You’re enormously over estimating how funny this is. Once, maximum twice… as long as it’s shaped as nothing he wanted is some good fun/ surprise. Afterwards he’s just going to be disappointed to find 10 of his gifts were a packet of crisps his mother decided to do. He will look back on it and think it was extremely odd thing to do. It won’t be as funny as you’re thinking.

Honestly this…. Could be mighty disappointing…. Why not just wrap them in one mega box?

housethatbuiltme · 05/12/2025 12:15

scrimblescramble · 05/12/2025 11:09

Oh some people need to lighten up, she knows her son and knows he will find it funny. Just because you wouldn't find it funny, doesn't mean other people won't! It's a bit of harmless fun ffs. OP has asked for ideas, not whether you would want it for Christmas

Just look at the 'misunderstood gift' thread... they all where sure they knew their loved ones better too.

Most 'bad' gifts aren't given of malice to be deliberately mean, they are usually just misguided idea.

sprigatito · 05/12/2025 12:20

Buy a big hamster ball and put the crisps inside, so wrapped up he thinks it’s a football?

SucksToBeYou · 05/12/2025 12:26

The might be inappropriate, but if i had 10 large bags of crisps and a teenage son, I would wrap then in bin liners in the shape of a body.

Augustandeverythingafter1 · 05/12/2025 12:42

SucksToBeYou · 05/12/2025 12:26

The might be inappropriate, but if i had 10 large bags of crisps and a teenage son, I would wrap then in bin liners in the shape of a body.

🤣
That made me laugh but I reality it would actually make me cry. 🤣

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Amiable · 05/12/2025 12:44

SucksToBeYou · 05/12/2025 12:26

The might be inappropriate, but if i had 10 large bags of crisps and a teenage son, I would wrap then in bin liners in the shape of a body.

🤣🤣🤣

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BatshitIsTheOnlyExplanation · 05/12/2025 12:44

MartinCrieffsHat · 04/12/2025 20:50

Put them all in a big boring-looking cardboard box and wrap that up.
He'll unwrap the present and think he's got something tedious like a swing bin but instead he'll have crisps.

That's the perfect solution

PuzzlingRecluse · 05/12/2025 12:45

MellowSnake · 04/12/2025 20:27

Just wrap them together? You’re enormously over estimating how funny this is. Once, maximum twice… as long as it’s shaped as nothing he wanted is some good fun/ surprise. Afterwards he’s just going to be disappointed to find 10 of his gifts were a packet of crisps his mother decided to do. He will look back on it and think it was extremely odd thing to do. It won’t be as funny as you’re thinking.

I agree with this, my parents did something similar to me as a teen. I was really upset & disappointed, I still remember it now (over 30 years later)

BadgernTheGarden · 05/12/2025 12:54

Maybe 10 is a bit much but so many party poopers! Have you got any bags of crisps he doesn't like, assuming these are bags within bags open other bag carefully re-fill with ones he does like and wrap, put a couple hidden in the Christmas tree or in a stocking from Santa, in a cereal box on the table, hanging up like Christmas decorations, crisps everywhere he looks.