Does Santa wrap presents in your house?

Sammy-Mae · November 2012

I know everyone does things differently. In our family Santa always brought stockings to our rooms so if we woke up at 3AM we had something to do. Then we would go downstairs and there would be unwrapped presents from Santa stacked in piles around the room. It was great and my parents loved that they got time for coffee to brew before we were begging to unwrap presents.

In DH's family Santa had a mix of wrapped and unwrapped presents. DH liked our way better so that's what we do with our kids.

What do you do?

btsrc5 · November 2012

Growing up in my house, Santa did stockings and wrapped presents. We had to wait until everyone was awake to open our stockings. Then we would eat breakfast before we could even go into the living room where the Christmas tree was. We opened each present one at a time. With 5 kids in the family, we were opening presents until mid afternoon.

I like the thought of not wrapping presents from Santa because it would save time and wrapping paper. I am not sure what we are going to do. I guess we need to discuss it.

kagl08 · November 2012

Growing up all gifts were wrapped except those too big to wrap (I.e., bike). We plan to do the same. DD's play kitchen was left unwrapped last year but everything else was wrapped. This year their train table will be the only thing left open.

cantalopes24 · November 2012

All presents were wrapped. Everything from Santa was all wrapped in the same paper for everyone and everything else was wrapped in different paper.

mamaZbo · November 2012

All of the presents were wrapped at our house. My mom would get creative with the labels and sign them from Santa, or Rudolph, or the elves. I can't remember who our stockings were from. I think we might sign only one or two things from Santa each year and wrap them up.

amyc216 · November 2012

In my house, Santa would leave out unwrapped gifts on the couches or on the fireplace (a section each for me, my brother, and sister) and stockings filled with little things as well. We're going to do it the same way for DS.

karinothing · November 2012

Sometimes. We opened presents on Christmas eve (none of those were frmo Santa). Then on Christmas morning we got stockings (from Santa) those just contained small gifts which were sometimes wrapped and sometimes not. My parents took credit for all the awesome stuff

pennysuedog · November 2012

We open all our family gifts in Christmas Eve. The Santa gifts are wrapped

in their own special paper, except for an unwrapped stuffed animal on top.

jwls84 · November 2012

Everything was wrapped for us, even every item in the stalking. We waited until everyone was awake and the opened our stalkings up. We would get a family gift on Christmas Eve that was usually a game then we would all play that game for the night it was our Christmas Eve tradition. We aren't sure which traditions we are going to keep as our own yet, but DH family open stalkings as soon as the woke up, no waiting, I like that!

KrisM86 · November 2012

In our house growing up, Santa wrapped all his gifts, including everything in our stockings. Yes, my mom is crazy. Yes, I am crazy and carrying on this tradition. Wrapping tiny stocking gifts really is a pain in the a$$ though.

shediva1 · November 2012

When I grew up we had stockings, but I didn't think my Mom or Dad knew that they were supposed to be stuffed. So actually it was big news to me when DH, my boyfriend at the time had our first Christmas. He presented me a huge stocking full of little things. It was actually cute. As DH and I celebrated our Christmas' we just wrapped gifts, and had empty stockings. I think I will bring back the stuffed stockings since it was a lot of fun opening it, I can only imagine a little kid having even more fun. Oh and to answer your question, yes Santa's elves wraps presents.

Nita2603 · November 2012

No Santa in Germany! Christkind or Weihnachtsmann bring gifts on Christmas Eve. They are always wrapped. For kids, most people have a Weihnachtsmann come to the House and hand out gifts.

Nita2603 · November 2012

For our kids, there will be stockings and wrapped gifts. Or giftbagged gifts.

Ariana2O11 · November 2012

The presents were wrapped. Part of the excitement as a kid was wondering what was in each one and unwrapping the gifts. It makes it a little more special, I think.

Mrs. Mo · November 2012

There are 5 kids in my family so my mom wasn't about to wrap all those gifts. We would take our stocking off the mantel on Christmas Eve and put it somewhere in the living room where we would want Santa to put our pile. The presents from my parents were always wrapped.

I wrapped DD's gifts from Santa last year but I'm thinking of just not bothering this year. Lately, I haven't even been able to go to the bathroom without her following me in (or banging on the door) so I highly doubt I would be able to sneek away to wrap the gifts. Plus, not wrapping them is a cheaper alternative.

lkm2006 · November 2012

Santa will wrap presents and only in Santa themed paper.

We won't start wrapping until he actually is able to unwrap them. This year everything is just being set out.

ETA: I want to wrap because our Santa presents were and none of my friends were. I always thought that was no fun because I loved unwrapping and being surprised. Plus, the morning goes by fast enough, wrapping slows it down a little.

Sammy-Mae · November 2012

I should clarify that anything from family was always wrapped it was just the stuff from santa that was open. We have a giant family and we are usually not finished until sometime around noon. I can't imagine what it would be like if we had more things to unwrap!!

cantalopes24 · November 2012

Sammy-Mae:
I should clarify that anything from family was always wrapped it was just the stuff from santa that was open. We have a giant family and we are usually not finished until sometime around noon. I can't imagine what it would be like if we had more things to unwrap!!

With my family it takes until about 4 hours, 8 to noon, (my parents, brother and gf, the 4 of us) then we go to his parents and that takes an hour -ish, then we go back to my parents to do Christmas with my sister BIL and their 2 kids plus my family which about 2 hours. After that we go to GMIL to do secret Santa with her family where everyone only opens about 3 presents and we're usually there until like 9. My extended family, both sides, we just mail the gifts to. FILs family we get together in January because there is no time the day of. I love seeing everything wrapped and trying to guess what it is, even when it's for someone else! The anticipation makes it so much more fun!

AngLK987 · November 2012

In our house Santa left our stockings on the couch filled b/c they were too heavy to hang back up, he also had one big thing unwrapped usually and a few things wrapped. My mom was always really good about wrapping santa gifts in a different paper than her gifts, and writing in all caps so we couldn't figure out the handwriting... my dad, not so much, plus I overheard him telling our uncle where he got "santa's" gifts.

I'm not really sure what santa did at my IL's

adge629 · November 2012

Growing up all my presents were wrapped. The same wrapping paper was used from santa and mom and dad. Here is my plan for how things will be and traditions:

On christmas eve LO will get to open two presents one being pj's the other one being a movie (movie is for when they wake up early they have to watch the movie before they can open presents, my parents did this with me and normally i feel back asleep. It is better than opening presents at 4 am.)

On Christmas morning first open the stocking that has small things like candy, coloring book, crayons, cd's... Then open the rest of the presents. Santa has different wrapping paper than mom. and Santa only brings toys/cd's/dvd's.

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