They don't wrap Xmas presents???

[donnajon]

I can see not wrapping a few things, but I think not wrapping takes some of the joy out of Christmas morning.

If you don't know any difference, then there is no joy or letdown of not having them wrapped. Santa never wrapped when I was growing up but he did at DH's home. I thought that was strange but wanted to incorporate some of his traditions since he was livng in my state and we spend a lot of time with my family. I must say, I love Santa wrapping gifts. It makes the morning last so much longer. My 3 kids are very good at taking turns and opening their gifts one at a time. They love watching each other open the gifts to see what they got. Santa does make sure to use paper that has Santa on it and a few years ago, he started used computer generated to/from (i.e. return address) labels which helps the elves make sure each kid gets the same number of gifts!

 

[disneychic2]

Wrapping presents is one of my favorite things to do! When the kids were small, I had a ritual of waiting until Christmas Eve to wrap everything after they went to bed. Made it hard when I discovered I needed batteries or ran out of tape, though. (one year I finished up using band-aids!) Now my kids are adults and usually just want gift cards, so I don't get to wrap as many gifts. But I make the most of it with the grandchildren!

There is a certain logic to having the toys put together and ready to go, but I would still get one of those gigantic gift bags to put over them. I just love watching them tear into the gifts. For me, the anticipation is almost as fun as the gift!

 

[chellewashere]

Our house is like the majority on here. Santa has his own wrapping paper to wrap up all the gifts and mom and dad use different paper. We do our gift exchange from us to her on Christmas eve which is PJs and a gift from mom and a gift from dad. Santa gets the credit for all the other toys that are there..even the socks and undies
Hard thing this year is that her cousin only gets one gift from Santa and the rest are from mom and dad. My DD asked me about that cause she told him he must be a bad kid cause she gets lots of presents from Hoho. I just dodged the question/statement cause I couldnt think of a good response for it

 

[DisneyScraps]

I love to wrap and Santa does too. Every year I get some wrapping paper with Santas on it and that is what I use I simply wrap them, no bows nothing fancy. All the other gifts do not have Santa on the paper and I wrap them a lot nicer, handmade bows, candy canes etc.

Lisa

 

[mjkacmom]

Santa does not wrap here, same as when I grew up. When the kids were younger, Santa actually assembled and batteried everything (which took hours). All of the presents are from Santa - mom and dad get no credit.

 

[Donaldswife]

Santa does not wrap in our house, but we do wrap other gifts.

I do have a cousin who does not wrap AT ALL. She sewed a large bag for each family member and they place all the presents in the bags. She is very what some people call "granola-y" and doesn't want to create the trash and waste. I still wrap everything though, I'm sure she probably thinks we are all evil!

 

[leight]

Dh's family didn't wrap any presents under the tree and my family wrapped all of them. I won. I did however compromise when my 3 yr old (now 13 yrs) dd was picking another little girl from the salvation army angel tree. She wanted to know why we had to help Santa give gifts to this girl. I thought about it and decided to tell her that Santa only brought 3 small gifts(like the 3 wise men brought Jesus), moms & dads provided the rest. If a child's parents couldn't give them shoes or mittens then that's what Santa brought. But we helped so the child could get more of what they need and something they would want too like a toy. She liked it and I felt good about it too.

So ever since- Santa's 3 little toys are left unwrapped and dd13's gifts are wrapped in red paper and dd10's in blue paper-these are from mom & dad. The majority of the gifts are put out in the middle of the night Xmas eve. They get to pick one present from the items that are already under the tree to open xmas eve. Usually its stuff from out of state relatives.

DD10 is still implying that she believes; I know she doesn't. She just loves the idea and tradition so she's going thru the motions. I won't say anything if she won't. But I figure this is the last year we will get with a xmas with santa. Although it is too young for her, she's been asking for the Loving Family Grand Dollhouse for 4 yrs. She has a barbie house, Bratz mansion(huge!), a huge wooden dollhouse and she plays with the loving family people in all of these.(She sold her sister's Loving family dollhouse at a garage sale 6 yrs ago-said she didn't want it-wanted the dora one instead-but kept the furniture and people) So this year she'll get it- its on layaway at toys r us- we'll probably only get the year out of it but she really wants it and although it will take a chunk out of the $300 total for her presents, she'll get it from Mom & Dad.

I can't imagine not spending half the morning ripping thru paper to get to the presents on Xmas morning. Its half the fun! And because its just our immediate family it doesn't involve the stress of travelling to family or having family visit. I love it.

 

[Heidict]

Santa's presents all arrive wrapped at our house, except of course the "big" presents. But 2 years ago Santa actually wrapped a trip to Disney!

What?! Santa didn't bring us a trip. We got ripped off! What the heck did you have to do to get a trip out of him?

I'm complaining. Anyone have a number for the north pole?

Santa doesn't wrap in our house, and builds all the toys so they are ready for playing right away. I can still make my husband shudder just by saying "Barbie House" . Mom and dad gifts are wrapped.

I have bad memories of a Barbie House also. I ended up with a black eye from assembling one. Why is it the Barbie House that always brings us down?

In our house, Santa wraps in his own paper and mom and dad wrap in something different. Santa only brings a couple of presents and the rest are from us.

 

[dollydell]

No kids yet, but everything gets wrapped here, even the stocking stuffers. I can't imagine not having everything wrapped, my parents never would have seen our reactions in regards to anything that was unwrapped when we were growing up if they were, as I am positive we would have gone downstairs to peek at them before they woke up.

 

[browneyes106]

Growin up my "Santa" presents weren't wrapped others one were. My boyfriend's aunt only uses wrapping paper for gifts that she gives to relatives that don't live with her. For her husband and kids she reuses gift bags and her husband and kids do the same. They are people that are very much into recycling and being green that they figure that it's not worth wasting wrapping paper for gifts inside the home.

 

[jen0610]

Santa always used different paper. I accidentally used the same paper the following year and dd remembered so I told her Santa was being environmentally sound and left me the left over paper to use this year

So that became a new tradition!

That is us to a T. I told he kids, that Santa knew how much they liked their paper, that he gave me the rest of the roll to use the following year.

Never had to put a tag on the Santa gifts either. With one boy and one girl, it was very easy to tell who was getting the gift wrapped in Star Wars paper, who got the Tinkerbell paper.

Neither of our extended families put gifts under the tree unwrapped. But growing up, DH's family never did stockings. He now loves stockings. We brought the tradition to his neices and now they do them as well.

 

[jen0610]

Santa Brings all gifts. All gifts are wrapped using santa paper that the kids pick out and mommy takes to the post office to mail to santa ( aka, DH didnt hide the paper one year so this was the way around it) Kids love picking their paper.

That is too cute. Great recovery mom!!