Does Santa put wrapped presents in the stockings at your house?

[Carina]

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Stocking presents wrapped or unwrapped?

I grew up in a house with wrapped stocking presents and so did my husband, but my best friend says 'the stocking is the wrapping'. Never heard of that until just a few years ago

Wondering which is more common.


I love having everything wrapped - it's a great use for all those paper scraps and a lot just get quickly rolled in tissue with one piece of tape to secure it. But sitting there unwrapping all those teeny little odd shaped items is so much fun. Stockings probably take 20 mins to open at our house.

 

[kimblebee]

Stocking presents wrapped or unwrapped?

I grew up in a house with wrapped stocking presents and so did my husband, but my best friend says 'the stocking is the wrapping'. Never heard of that until just a few years ago

Wondering which is more common.


I love having everything wrapped - it's a great use for all those paper scraps and a lot just get quickly rolled in tissue with one piece of tape to secure it. But sitting there unwrapping all those teeny little odd shaped items is so much fun. Stockings probably take 20 mins to open at our house.

Same with us at my mom and dads house. The Santa present is not wrapped but the stocking presents are. With us, the stocking is more an extension of other gifts given. One Christmas, my stocking had a humidifier and a bakers rack, among other things LOL

 

[nighttowll]

Individually wrapped, except a few odd things sticking out the top, like fruit, candy, or a stuffed animal. And we take turns opening them one by one.

 

[McDuck]

Santa doesn't wrap anything in our family.

 

[Carina]

Individually wrapped, except a few odd things sticking out the top, like fruit, candy, or a stuffed animal. And we take turns opening them one by one.

Our stocking are the only thing that is a 'free for all' at our house. We open every gift under the tree one by one. Took about 5-6 years of arguing to get the other adults in my family to agree to the one by one. Finally one year I got SO MAD, I missed seeing one of my kids open one of their big special gifts because another kids was doing the same thing at the same time.

I was so close to crying I was so disappointed. I said 'what is the rush, I have been shopping and wrapping for weeks and you all want to rush through it, we have all day, we have no where else to be, we have nothing else to be doing, why can't we savor this'

And from that moment forward a new tradition was started, and now everyone comments every year that they like it better this way (DUH!)
My sister and my mom now do it like that at their get together too.

But I am ok with stockings being a free for all, we're pretty slow with them anyways, and it's all little things, plus it was a way to compromise...lol

 

[MickeyFan18]

Stocking gifts are generally unwrapped at my house unless Santa is trying to lengthen the process for some reason...But everything else is wrapped up and opened one by one!

 

[E&Cmom]

No, stocking stuffers are left unwrapped.

 

[Neesy228]

Most stocking stuffers are unwrapped and many sticking out of the top for easy peeking. But, there maybe a few of the more special items that are wrapped and tucked inside.

 

[NHdisneylover]

The first time I heard of wrapping items IN a stocking was on the DIS (actually, it is the only place I have heard of it ).

So, no, neither myself nor my husband grew up with item being wrapped IN the stocking, and we o not do it that way with our kids. I love the look of things peeking out over the top of the stocking too much to ever consider wrapping the contents. Besides, as someone else mentioned, Santa does not wrap gifts (any gifts)

 

[maslex]

ALWAYS wrapped. Even the littlest packs of gum lol. I think one of the things that kids enjoy the most is unwrapping gifts.

When we were kids, my dad always saved our stockings for last. He said it was always a bit of a disappointment once we ripped through all of our gifts so fast. So our stockings were just "that little bit more" to extend gift opening. I have since carried that on with my children. They are 16 and 18 now but they still get stockings.

I love stockings. My youngest son has one filled up and ready to give his girlfriend and he is just over the moon excited to give it to her. It's just filled with her favorite candy, with some nail polish, hair ties, loofah, Christmas ornament, lotion, etc. But her family can't really do much for Christmas financially so he wants to surprise her with a few things. He's bought her a few gifts as well but seems more excited to give her the stocking What can I say, we love stockings in this house.

 

[lizzi6692]

I have never heard of people wrapping stocking gifts until I read this thread.

 

[mamamary]

Presents in our stockings are never wrapped.

 

[indimom]

We wrap them, mainly to draw out the gift opening because there are so few gifts under the tree (and it gets worse every year because the kids want smaller in size / higher in price items once they hit their teens - it's sort of depressing...).

I've considered not wrapping and letting things peek out the top, but haven't been able to give it up just yet. lol.

 

[haj697]

Everything is wrapped except any candy that Santa leaves.

 

[Tazicket]

Santa doesn't wrap anything in our family.

Not in our family, either. I was shocked when I learned that Santa actually wrapped stuff at other people's houses.

 

[Disney Ella]

We wrap them. Wrapping them bought me more time to sleep on Christmas morning when the kids were little. I would leave their stockings in their room and tell them they could open everything in them before they came to my room to wake me.

 

[shoney]

Stocking stuffers are always wrapped.

All gifts are from Santa and friends and are always wrapped.

(some from frosty, Rudolph, Jack Frost, etc.....my mom did that for me back in the 70's and I loved it!)

 

[mombrontrent]

Id say it's about half and half here. I do the same as my parents did, save all my wrapping paper scraps and wrap the stocking stuffers with that. I use up my scraps on stocking stuffers and the rest get thrown in unwrapped. I really don't care if the paper I the same as Santa's, only one still believe and I've never been questioned on it anyways.

The stocking was always one of my favourite things about Christmas morning and I loved unwrapping each little surprise so I do the same for my kids.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

All presents under the tree are wrapped. Stocking stuffers are not.

 

[jrmasm]

All presents under the tree are wrapped. Stocking stuffers are not.

Same.


Santa is way too busy to wrap stocking stuffers.