Do you wrap Santa gift(s)

Littlejen22 · October 2010

So far DS has always had a big gift that we have not wrapped. This year DS will have a big gift but DD does not, I am not sure if I am going to give her something big and right now I think we might not. So I am torn if I should give DS big gift (a Little Tikes grill) as a joint gift or just wrap all the gifts. And I "worry" that if I do not wrap Santa gifts that the kids will not know what belongs to whom. All of our gifts were wrapped as kids and my brother is almost 6 years older than me so this was never an issue for us.

CleoKitty · October 2010

It's never even occurred to us to differentiate gifts from Santa and parents. We just wrap everything and stick it under the tree. The kids have never really asked about it. I think they just assume that everything is from Santa, LOL, and that's fine by me.

4Speedy · October 2010

We wrap all gifts. The Santa gifts are usully wrapped plainly--just wrapping paper, not all the ribbons and decorations I put on th gifts from us. And of course, I use different paper and then hide all traces of it so it is not discovered in the basement.

Heidisean · October 2010

Ditto Cleo. But yes we do wrap most all gifts (unless super big like the year we got Giada her Pottery Barn Anywhere Chair).

goodheartedmommy · October 2010

I'm pretty sure most people on here wrap their Santa presents. Mine were never wrapped as a kid, so I don't do it, either.

Rebekah1021 · October 2010

I wrap everything.

KrisBriMcBunny · October 2010

There are so many different traditions with this. We do big gifts from santa and leave them unwrapped....anything that would be difficult to wrap is from Santa.

I wouldnt worry about just DS having a big gift from santa ...you can leave a few things unwrapped from Santa for dd.

Like I said there are many different ways to do this....Kids seriously do not care that much...they are just so excited that morning.

*Amy* · October 2010

I wrap everything, but Santa has his own wrapping paper different from the ones I use.

Mominator · October 2010

I always wrap Santa gifts. I pick out a different wrapping paper for each kid so I don't need to label anything, they just unwrap all the stuff in their pile that is in their own paper. I don't do any gifts from me though. The only gift they get from me is on Christmas Eve and it is always Christmas pj's.

StarryNight39 · October 2010

Nope, we never do, but both MH and I were both brought up with the Santa gift always being unwrapped so it was just normal for us to also do it.

Santa gift is always large anyway; bike, train table, big toy etc. We always have it set up in front of the tree.

MayorMcCheese000 · October 2010

We do family presents on Christmas Eve and Santa presents Christmas morning. So every Christmas Eve the kids open their presents from us(usually pj's, a new ornament and their big gift.) This year we are getting the big kids their own desktop computer and the little one a rocking horse. They usually open their gifts to each other and gifts from Aunts and Uncles as well. Christmas morning they open Santa presents and stockings (we go crazy every year and they get way too much,) and presents from Grandparents.

THIS year we are putting the tree in the dining room instead of the living room. After we finish putting the presents under the tree we are going to cover the entrance to the room with wrapping paper. This means 1. no snooping in the middle of the night and 2. They will be able to bust through a wall of wrapping paper to get to their gifts Xmas morning which, to me, seems like some fun for a kid!

MrsSR · October 2010

growing up, they were wrapped. But we were pretty poor and never had huge gifts. My nieces get some pretty big Santa gifts and they are not wrapped. Small gifts from Santa are.

newwifey · October 2010

We wrap everything. ANd I mean everything, no matter how big. All of the excitemnt of xmas morning is what is inside and tearing into it to find out. We need all of it, the sound of the paper, the mess, all of it.

And yes, santa wrap is different from all other wrap. I usually buy a paper with Santas on it to differentiate what is from Santa. And a different Santa paper for each kid (although I also label, usually typed b/c that is how I realized that Santa wasn't real, I saw my Mom's handwriting- lol).

Can you tell this is important to me?

DevonPow · October 2010

Santa gifts are always unwrapped in our house - that is what I had growing up. Santa brings 1 big gift (maybe 2, tops) that you see right away unwrapped under the tree when you come in Christmas morning - it is so fun! He brings stocking things, too. Everything else is wrapped and from speciic people.

BubblyToes · October 2010

Dear Santa,

I only want the block function to work for Christmas. And you don't have to wrap it.

Kthxbai-

MrsCali_Bride · October 2010

Santa gifts get wrapped in Santa paper. Each person has a different paper pattern. Even a few of the items in the stockings get wrapped (dvds, cds, books, etc.)

Andrewsgal · October 2010

goodheartedmommy:
I'm pretty sure most people on here wrap their Santa presents. Mine were never wrapped as a kid, so I don't do it, either.

This is me too. Mine were never wrapped so I don't wrap DD's. I do give gifts from both Santa (unwrapped) and us (wrapped) that way it eases my guilt and does not look like I was as out of control as i was when it came to shopping:)

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