TrixieB Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 My mom... I mean SANTA... always wrapped our stocking gifts. Dh thinks this is weird and says he's never heard of anyone wrapping stocking gifts. So... a poll. Do you wrap stocking gifts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Peregrine Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 No. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momto10blessings Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Sometimes for the 2-3 yr old crowd that really enjoy unwrapping presents. My older kids like sneaking downstairs and peeking away their stockings before mom and dad make it downstairs in the morning Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blondeviolin Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Nope. I don't feel like buying Santa wrapping paper so Santa doesn't wrap anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starr Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Sometimes if something doesn't fit in the stocking or for fun. Paper that is printed with something dc loves that particular year. But mostly no. It's too late, I'm too tired! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Kate Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Santa doesn't wrap them for my kids *wink* but when I was a kid, he occasionally wrapped one of my stocking gifts. Sometimes I would get a more expensive stocking gift (like a piece of jewelry) and that would be wrapped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinder Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Yes--it's what they did in dh's family when he was young. Everything in there was wrapped except the orange that went in the toe. My family doesn't have a stocking tradition; we decided to follow dh's family tradition. Except for that part about the orange--none of us really likes oranges. I tried switching to those chocolate oranges but they thought that was almost as bad. :p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in VA Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Absol-friggin-lutely. Usually about 1 in the morning. Right before dh comes home from Midnight Mass. I bless my mom's ever-lovin' name at that point, in gratitude for the ginormous stockings she hand-knitted each of them. Knitted. As in they stretch. Therefore we have a LOT of stocking gifties. LOL--I'm really not bitter about wrapping stocking gifts. I just tell myself every year that I'll do them ahead of time, but I never do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom2samlibby Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 I wrap some of the bigger ones. Santa wraps each child's gifts in different paper. The stocking gifts show them which paper is theirs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson Wife Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 No, but my MIL does. She still makes up stockings for visiting adults, however, and that strikes me as rather odd. My parents stopped doing stockings for me the year I was almost 17 because that's when my youngest brother put 2 & 2 together about Santa's gifts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenmom5 Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 depends upon what it is. e.g. candy - no. a dvd/jewelry - yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 I wrap some of them, and leave some unwrapped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fraidycat Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Yes. Stockings are to be opened before they are allowed to wake parents. Wrapping buys us at least 45 more seconds of precious shut-eye on Christmas morning after our late night! ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-rap Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 About half. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Definitely! Everything is wrapped. Also, even though we do our own stockings from Santa, MIL sends wrapped stocking gifts too. We call them stocking refills. Once we are done with the official stockings we fill our stockings with her gifts and have a second round. It's so fun and the kids love how grandma "plays santa". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catwoman Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 I wrap anything that doesn't move. I am a lunatic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horsellian Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Father Christmas usually wraps with the leftovers of last year's wrapping paper! (But nobody has noticed that yet...) Stockings here are opened in the morning before church, while 'proper' presents wait until after dinner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WagsWife Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 In our house, Santa brings one "big" (big could=size, importance, cost, or any combo of the three) gift, as well as their stockings. Santa gifts are not wrapped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherry in OH Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Sometimes I wrap the item that sticks out the top of the stocking. Just to make the filled stocking look pretty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strange_girl Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 I wrap stocking gifts. I do it because my kids are little, and because I start stuffing stockings right about now (Dec 1)...so they can watch with great anticipation as they fill up throughout the month. And because everything is wrapped, they can't peek! We don't do the whole Santa thing, so it doesn't matter when I stuff the stockings. It's become a favorite December game to watch them slowly fill up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PuddleJumper1 Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Some yes - some no. No real rhyme or reason to it actually. Just what strikes my fancy at the time I'm staring at piles of stocking stuffers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarbecueMom Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Yes, ours are wrapped except the orange and some of the little candy pieces (Hershey kisses, candy canes, etc.). Our stockings usually have goofy white-elephant type stuff in them, so trying to figure out what's in the oddly shaped wrapping is half the fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night Elf Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Nope. If it fits in the stocking it isn't wrapped. If it was meant to be a stocking stuffer but doesn't fit into the stocking, I wrap it and put it under the tree like a gift. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheres Toto Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Yes, most things are wrapped. If I get loose candy like Hershey kisses, I won't wrap them. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustEm Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 I put sometimes because I don't wrapped the kid's stocking stuffers but I wrap dh's because he's more likely to come across them during the month than the kids are so I don't want him to see it ahead of time. I can't remember if he wraps my stocking stuffers or not Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Word Nerd Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Nope. The stocking is the wrapping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barnwife Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 I have continued my mom's (I mean Santa's...) tradition. Pretty much everything gets wrapped. Not candy or the orange or apple, but everything else. It sometimes seems like lunacy, but it makes the stockings so much more fun. Sort of related: I was an adult before I realized that in some families Santa doesn't wrap gifts. My BIL grew up just walking into a room of new unwrapped toys. I still can't wrap my head around this. I edited a little, because apparently typing with 2 kids climbing on me is hard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melbotoast Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Stocking gifts are wrapped in red or green tissue paper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luckymama Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Nope! And Santa doesn't/didn't wrap his gifts either (one per kid). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScoutTN Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 My kids are young and stocking gifts come from Santa and Santa does not wrap gifts here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desert Strawberry Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 If it's a very tiny gift-I once received a pearl necklace on a gold chain wrapped in white tissue in my stocking, I have wrapped Sagg's tiny DS games-and I'm afraid it might be overlooked, I will wrap to make it more noticable. Very special or private gifts (fancy undies for me in D's stocking to be opened when we are alone) might also be wrapped. Otherwise, no. The most fun of stockings is opening them up and having all those goodies just piled all up in there. Stockings are my favorite part of Christmas and the only gifts I usually receive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chelle in MO Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Nope. The stocking is the wrapping. :iagree: It's a fun-shaped gift bag! No wrapping necessary! :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spryte Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Sometimes. :) When I was a young child, Santa never wrapped anything. Then when my dad remarried, Santa wrapped *everything*... I liked it. So now Santa wraps most of the stocking stuff, but not everything - not little tiny fillers, just the bigger gifts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lailasmum Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Yes but mostly because it slows down the process of getting everything out. It's just nice for it to take a little longer than the time it takes to tip the stocking out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MomtoCandJ Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 It's bad enough wrapping the tree gifts, I'm not about to wrap the little do dads that I put in dd1's stocking (usually hair ties and Chapstick type things) besides it's mostly candy in there anyways Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MomtoCandJ Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 It's bad enough wrapping the tree gifts, I'm not about to wrap the little do dads that I put in dd1's stocking (usually hair ties and Chapstick type things) besides it's mostly candy in there anyways. Besides I thought the stocking was the wrapping paper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tangerine Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 This is a thing that I didn't know was a thing. I've never thought about wrapping stocking gifts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustEm Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Of topic but I thought of it because everyone keeps saying Santa wraps or doesnt wrap his gifts. But I've never indicated on the kids gifts who they are from. They know about Santa but any talk of Santa bringing gifts comes from them. I simply acknowledge their excitement and talk about what they're talking about. They know mom and dad give them gifts too. Now I wonder how they decide which gifts are from us and which ones are from Santa. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrn Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Candy does not get wrapped. Small presents do,except the stuffed animal that peeks out the top of the stocking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angie in VA Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 I only wrap a few and never the regulars: chocolate orange, toothbrush, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loowit Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 I don't wrap anything from Santa. Usually the "big gift" from Santa is right there next to their stocking ready for them. This is the way both DH and my family did things growing up. The only one I have heard of who wraps stocking stuff is my good friend's MIL who wraps each little thing individually and tries to make as many small pieces as she can. She still does this for her two grown boys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrixieB Posted December 1, 2014 Author Share Posted December 1, 2014 Yes but mostly because it slows down the process of getting everything out. It's just nice for it to take a little longer than the time it takes to tip the stocking out. I suspect this is why my mom wrapped the stocking gifts. One of my sibs would have just dumped out the stocking and said, "Now can we open the stuff under the tree?" Dd says it's more fun if it's all wrapped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medawyn Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Santa wraps about half the items in the stocking. Whatever is a wrapable(ish) shape and he has leftover scraps for. And anything that's a bit more special gets wrapped (occasionally "real" gifts wind up in the stocking). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kari C in SC Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 I wrap anything that doesn't move. I am a lunatic. This describes me! One year I got dd a little doll house and I wrapped every person and piece of furniture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matryoshka Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 depends upon what it is. e.g. candy - no. a dvd/jewelry - yes. Yes, this. Stocking gifts are wrapped. Stocking goodies (candy, chocolate, orange/clementine in the toe), unwrapped. ETA: The stocking is the only thing we open on Christmas morning - our main Christmas festivities are on Christmas Eve. So drawing it out even a little bit is good. ;) When they were little, there was also one big "Santa gift" that arrived on the hearth under the stockings that Santa filled, but now that they're older and get less individual presents (and are over the Santa thing), that's gone away. The presents on Christmas Eve under the tree were always from other family members, not Santa, even when they were little. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrittanyM Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Only if it sticks out... I don't need any extra things to wrap! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephanier.1765 Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 What I like about stockings is that I don't have to wrap anything in it. :hurray: Wrapping gets old fast so any excuse to not wrap is a good one in my book. Of course others may not agree but this is the philosophy I wrap under. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heatherwith4 Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 I wrap the stuff I put in DH's stocking just to get on his nerves. :p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Mungo Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Nothing from Santa is wrapped here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T'smom Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 This is a thing that I didn't know was a thing. I've never thought about wrapping stocking gifts. That's funny. It never occured to me not to wrap them! (Except for the candy- we always get candy in tubes with a Santa or snowman or something on top- I don't wrap that) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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