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?

I'd feel miserable doing that, even though I dislike wrapping every year. It just seems really dull.

I hate wrapping but recognise unwrapping a gift is part of the magic so there’s no way I wouldn’t wrap my DC’s presents! I don’t wrap gifts for other people though, I use gift bags.

I like wrapping things up.

I even wrapped up the logs in the log basket once, to make them more festive!

We do as many reusable bags as possible now but still have the occasional wrapped gift.

I don't wrap. DS takes the full 12 days of christmas to unwrap presents and he just doesn't recognise that there is something behind the paper for him. He just looks at them and thinks wow, what a lot of colourful boxes, anyway...

I do try and dress it up a bit though, this year I got a cardboard train thing so they look christmassy, but are still visible and unwrapped.

As for grown up presents, I don't usually wrap them either, it's a gift bag with some crepe paper to jazz it up.

We buy plastic-free paper tape. Like masking tape but brown, which blends into kraft wrapping paper as well as clear sellotape would. Can go in recycling or compost!

Adopting the Asian method of wrapping presents in reusable fabric seems like a nice option (for bigger presents). I agree there is a lot waste but unwrapping is part of the fun. I try and keep the paper for the following year as much as I can (no young children tearing it to shreds).

Apparently called Furoshiki - Japanese wrapping cloth.

As a child, Father Christmas but things in a sack unwrapped.

I wrap presents in clean newspaper, free newspapers in a foreign language if I can find them. It looks better than it sounds. It's also easy to recycle.

Furoshiki is a bit weird though. Do you use fancy fabric? What is the recipient meant to do with it?

Yep we've always done this too, from when I was little to now with our DCs.
Same with my DH who grew up in Europe, one of many children in his family.

Santa doesn't wrap presents they come out of a sack!
Wrapping paper is unnecessary, wasteful, and costly to the giver and most of all, to the environment.

They keep it and reuse it. It's really popular. They use it for everything from gifts to wrapping bento boxes for lunch. The patterns can either be for fun or can be symbolic. It is usually tied in a specific way to allow for carrying.

I have bought a few satin squares off vinted, usually from Lush gift sets that people have used and I do use these to wrap some smaller presents like for my mum or my brother, and my mum sews them into different craft projects when she's done with them.

For anybody interested in Furoshiki wrapping.

I don’t personally wrap anything because it’s husbands job. We do have wrapped presents though so different from most of the posters here.

My in laws usually pass over a plastic bag with the presents in, they even leave the price tag on.

I bought those draw string wrapping bags this year and they have been a game changer, no cutting or sellotape etc
They’re really thick so I plan to keep them and re use them next year.

However someone did say to me that it’ll take the fun out of tearing open the present so now I’m thinking about that!
They do look much more appealing than my usual wrapping though, as they usually looks like they were wrapped by a blind T-Rex 😆

What a shame not to wrap presents, I think it's part of the joy and make a huge effort to make presents look beautiful.

I made cotton drawstring bags about 25 years ago. I washed them last year . l thought they deserved a cleanup. Family only and I get them back once opened. I have also made for my parents and my brothers. Cloth baggies are a big hit in this house,

They do look good, are good environmentally and make wrapping the easiest thing in the world.

Father Christmas presents would get wrapped in paper, though. But we’re over that stage now.

I hate wrapping gifts, I hate all those wrapping papers left behind. Gift bags are godsend, I reuse them whenever possible, I dont write on the tags so others can reuse them too.

I love wrapping. I use recycled, recyclable paper and paper wrapping tape that is also biodegradable. I think unwrapping is part of the fun.

I don't wrap, but I arrange gift bags so they are hiding the object well. My mum still does individual wrapping in our sacks, but they're not bothered about how they receive my gifts to them.

We wrap but a couple of years ago both kids had a second hand present - Sylvanians for DD and Brio for DS. We set them up around the tree and actually it was brilliant - looked great, ready to play, more enjoyed than the dopamine hit of unwrapping. I think having one thing set up already is really helpful with small kids.

We are competitive wrappers in my family. I’m almost embarrassed to say what goes on

We reuse gift bags until they fall apart. It's a kind of eco conscious thing now, but it's first iteration was because I can identify things from the wrapped shape very easily.

We never had stockings as children and our tree was a table top tinsel thing. Santa delivered to my room, I saw him once, looked just like my Dad 🤣

Wow- how many presents does he get?

You do the exact same thing as me x