Do you wrap stocking stuffers?

[thecatsmeow]

I wrap and my Mom wrapped, but there usually are/were only 2-4 items so it doesn't feel overwhelming to me.

[ashbash]

Dec 21, 2015 16:51:26 GMT -5 @bubbs119 said:

Dec 21, 2015 16:48:00 GMT -5 sammyca said:

SS - Am I the only one who doesn't do stockings?

Bahahahaha

[ashbash]

And no never, the stocking is the wrapping!

[erbear]

Some! I usually don't wrap candy.

[Widget123]

I wrap everything that isn't candy.

[mrsmonogrammed]

Wrap EVERYTHING except for filler candy, but like, packs of gum? Wrapped. Chapstick? Wrapped. Hand sanitizer? Wrapped.
Stockings would be no fun if you just dumped it out to see what you got;)

[mirage86]

Dec 21, 2015 16:47:46 GMT -5 @bubbs119 said:

My family wraps everything. Always. Only things not wrapped are individual candies/chocolates.

This. But guys, my MIL only does stockings. She made gigantic ones that are like 3 feet long for all of her boys (and me, DH and I were engaged by our first Christmas )and ALL presents go in there. Most are wrapped but not all. Does anyone else do that?

[hannahl201477]

I only wrap DHs stocking stuffers. Mainly Bc those are his really presents I just cram them in his stocking.

[beersandweirs]

What the what?! I never knew people wrapped stocking stuffers! All I can say is I'm glad it's not a tradition in either of our families, I couldn't handle that much wrapping!

[tiffbot]

SS-we wrapped one box (in different wrapping paper than the gifts under the tree, duh ) that won't fit in DS's stocking, the rest we are leaving unwrapped.

My parents still do stocking stuffers and wrap everything! I think when we were kids though not everything was wrapped, I definitely recall getting one big item from Santa that would be sitting out for each of us. Then a bunch of candy.

So apparently we've done it all haha.

[pghtruelove]

Wrap everything that's not filler candy in tissue paper not wrapping paper.

[periwinkledaydreams]

Never ever heard of wrapping stocking stuffers before this board! Loving seeing all these different traditions. My mind is blown by this one though. We really only got hard candy, chocolate, chapstick, that kinda thing.. cannot imagine them being wrapped lol considering they come in wrappers!

Also having an interesting time as my first time doing a Christmas with a child so this is my first time with a tree, doing gifts, etc since I left my parents house 10+ years ago. I didn't do anything when I was just living with boyfriends or single or whatever so this is interesting for me just starting to create our own traditions from what I had and from what SO had as a kid!

[periwinkledaydreams]

Dec 21, 2015 16:48:00 GMT -5 sammyca said:

SS - Am I the only one who doesn't do stockings?

This year LO has a stocking ornament on the tree.. its tiny and has 2 tiny things in it lol, so thats that! And we don't have grown up stockings. Grinches?!? What would we do, fill each others? I don't know how this works lol.

[mrsmonogrammed]

Dec 21, 2015 20:24:02 GMT -5 periwinkledaydreams said:

Dec 21, 2015 16:48:00 GMT -5 sammyca said:

SS - Am I the only one who doesn't do stockings?

This year LO has a stocking ornament on the tree.. its tiny and has 2 tiny things in it lol, so thats that! And we don't have grown up stockings. Grinches?!? What would we do, fill each others? I don't know how this works lol.

That's exactly what we do:) although I cheat and give DH a list of ideas....usually it's stuff I buy anyway- mascara, bath and body works body wash, a toothbrush (tradition, everyone gets one!) socks, Chapstick, and anything else little I can think of. This year I asked for an ice cream scoop because we lost ours??
It's fun to see what the other comes up with!

[Bluedaisy]

In our house growing up Santa wrapped the stocking stuffers but not the big presents. They were set up and ready to play with. Santa would set our stocking on or near the big presents so we knew which was ours in case we couldn't guess. Years later once we were grown up and didn't believe in Santa my dad told the story of the year Santa brought the convertible Barbie horse trailer and the fact that it took six adults four hours (and I assume a few drinks) to put it all together lol. I really look forward to Christmas eve and filling stockings and setting out all of the toys.

[periwinkledaydreams]

Dec 21, 2015 22:31:29 GMT -5 Bluedaisy said:

In our house growing up Santa wrapped the stocking stuffers but not the big presents. They were set up and ready to play with. Santa would set our stocking on or near the big presents so we knew which was ours in case we couldn't guess. Years later once we were grown up and didn't believe in Santa my dad told the story of the year Santa brought the convertible Barbie horse trailer and the fact that it took six adults four hours (and I assume a few drinks) to put it all together lol. I really look forward to Christmas eve and filling stockings and setting out all of the toys.

I kind of love this. So your Santa toys were not in store packaging at all, they didn't have all the annoying twisty ties to be un-did and all that. So cool!

[mrskblack11]

Never have I ever heard of people wrapping stocking stuffers.

Santa has to visit billions of homes in one night. He does not have time to wrap all those toys.

[wegrowsheep]

Dec 21, 2015 17:29:51 GMT -5 mrsmonogrammed said:

Wrap EVERYTHING except for filler candy, but like, packs of gum? Wrapped. Chapstick? Wrapped. Hand sanitizer? Wrapped.
Stockings would be no fun if you just dumped it out to see what you got;)

This. And the time investment is returned when the children have to UNwrap all of it while I hide in bed.

[erbear]

Psh, santa's got a billion elves to wrap toys for him. It's nothing!

Wrapping is my favorite part, too, even though I suck at it. Lo's gifts are wrapped, even though I'll likely be opening them.

[Bluedaisy]

periwinkledaydreams, It was awesome and it worked out really well...how do you wrap a toboggan? I loved getting up and seeing the toys from Santa all ready to be played with. As a kid our stockings were huge and since all of the presents were wrapped we took forever to open them. We weren't allowed to go to the living room to see stuff until we got my parents up...there was a lot of "go back to bed I don't think Santa's been here yet" in our house.

[Bluedaisy]

Dec 22, 2015 9:28:34 GMT -5 budders said:

We always get practical things in our stockings. Toothbrushes, razors (teen years and up), deodorant, etc. There is also Chapstick and candy and maybe mints or gum.

Same.  As kids we got things like colouring books, stickers, candy etc.  But we always got a toothbrush and once we got older it was mostly candy and toiletry items. 

[paintdadanta]

My family always wrapped everything (I still love wrapping) but DH never did and now only wraps the occasional stocking stuffer. I always found it fun as a kid because they were harder to open with all that tape on something little. I do regret wrapping Santa gifts this year though - one box was huge and even my largest roll didn't cover it so I gave up and left the bottom open, oops.