People who don’t wrap Christmas gifts. Reveal yourselves!

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I was chatting to someone at work and she casually revealed that she never wraps any Christmas presents for her kids. Or in fact, anyone.

just pops everything under the tree or in a pile and that’s it. Jobs a good un.

She couldn’t explain why really - just said she’d always done it that way so I’m turning to MN to ask … do you do this? And if so, why?

We’ve always done this and my parents did the same when we were kids. Everything goes into a sack, anything that doesn’t go into a sack is kind of arranged around it. There’s enough chaos on Xmas morning without adding 17 tonnes of waste paper into the mix.

I do wrap gifts for others (unless I can get away with a gift bag) but have never wrapped for the kids.

Yep me

Santa doesn’t wrap

all that paper is wasteful and unnecessary anyway

I build the toys if there’s any assembly involved - like babies toy kitchen will be all set up and he can play with it straight away

if was like this in my house too as a child

the presents only come out Xmas Eve night

I built toy kitchen last night and it’s currently in the neighbours house and it will be collated when kids in bed Xmas Eve

So it would appear that people do this because it’s how it was done when they were a child? Makes sense

I never had a stocking as a child. Just a pile of (wrapped!) presents so for many years I didn’t do a stocking for my kids. I do one now but I pop it by their presents and it’s filled with whatever fits in it best - so there’ll be AirPods in amongst a bag of chocolate coins for example … so I’ve probably still not got the hang of it after many years!

We don’t have room for a Christmas tree in our lounge so we just put it in sacks and Santa leaves it out for them.

I’m a fan of the recipient being blindfolded and taken to their gifts, for a reveal, especially for something big, or that needs lots of setting up. Presents hidden under a cloth can also work.

I’ve given up on most wrapping now DD is grown up.
I’ve got a few gift bags which I have reused for quite a few years, so we can ‘unwrap’ but without all the fuss and waste.

I used to wrap our old dog’s presents, who doesn’t love watching a dog excitedly unwrap his gifts? I used newspaper for that though.

I’m starting to feel very unhappy with the level of waste in the world that I want to be as environmentally safe as possible for my children and their children.

So last year we bought big reusable cloth Christmas sacks from TKMaxx and each child gets everything in a sack plus a stocking. It seems so wasteful to wrap the presents only to be ripped open and paper discarded.

You can also wrap in pillow cases. If you want it to be Christmassy, buy Vinted or charity shop Xmas pillow cases and reuse each year.

unwrapping is beyond a doubt my dd’s favourite part. I could wrap up a wooden spoon and she’d be delighted. Not wrapping anything would take the majority of the fun out.

Ripping the paper off is half the fun. Although I have considered sewing multiple reusable gift bags next year.

What?! Unwrapping is literally half the fun! How dull.

@CraftyPlayer

see I don’t think it’s dull at all - the presents are the fun
christmas is already full of over consumerism and loads of shite being bought and going landfill - there’s no need for loads of paper going in the bin on top of that

Love how the wrapped presents look under the tree. Not wrapping makes the job look half arsed

I always used to wrap presents though it is my least favourite Christmas job and I am a messy wrapper. I have been hosting Christmas for 50 years and some tasks have had to go, especially as the grandchildren are now adults.
I put presents in gift bags with tissue loosely on top. The bags are re-used.

My parents never wrapped our gifts. It was shit 🤷‍♀️ I now go a bit overboard and wrap everything, including chocolate coins.

We have relatives who don’t wrap and they openly say it’s because they can’t be arsed. They think everyone should wrap their gifts though. 🤣 🤪 We don’t.

I love wrapping and I love seeing piles of nicely wrapped gifts, especially for my children and partner.

God how dull! I use recylable paper wrapping - no landfill. I buy one of those massive rolls of brown paper with Christmassy print on it, and paper ribbon - it lasts a few years. Ridiculous to claim that it's the wrapping paper that represents over-consumption and waste, rather than the presents! You don't need to buy plasticky, glittery paper that has to go in the main bin.

I'm surprised how many people don't wrap. I've never known anyone not wrap presents or put them in a bag.

It seems so dull and boring.

Ridiculous to claim that it's the wrapping paper that represents over-consumption and waste, rather than the presents!

Exactly! We don't buy that many presents, but each one is wrapped to make it special and we focus on reusable/recyclable packaging as much as possible. Doing away with the wrapping for ecological reasons because it produces "a mountain of waste" would be better dealt with by avoiding a mountain of presents in the first place.

DH and I use reusable Amazon gift bags between us, really because I do all the other wrapping and DH leaves his until Christmas Eve.

I never add gift wrap to presents sent to godchildren via Amazon etc

I only bring this up because someone on here was saying she couldn't order presents like that cos they weren't wrapped

Whatever it's posted in is wrapping I say

I know that's not what you mean. For that if it was something v bit I might well just put wrapping paper over the front, so it looked good under the tree.

I only found out in the last couple of years that my dh's family never wrapped anything. Their presents were separated into a pile for each child and put on a particular seat. DH says they just ran downstairs when they woke up and rummaged through their pile.

MIL has always wrapped presents as long as I've known her but not sure when, how or why this change took place.

I love wrapping and my DC loves opening gifts. Its such a big part of xmas for me.

DH hates wrapping and has previously given me gifts still in an amazon box.

Sellotape isn’t recyclable though so If that goes into the bin you’ve fucked the recycling part

I always wrap presents for kids, but save pretty paper from deliveries, and last year's presents, so I'm not adding to landfill. If I have enough paper for adults I wrap there's too, otherwise use a gift bag/fabric, also saved from last year.

I knew someone that used news paper to wrap gifts up.
Sounds awful but looked great.