Parents of Era - Should presents from Father Christmas be wrapped?

[Sikamikanico]

Okay, need some help to settle an argument with the wife here.

When I was kid and I got my stocking Christmas morning, presents in the stocking were ALWAYS wrapped, because they're from Santa/Father Christmas.

My wife is telling me that they should never be wrapped, which I think is just bonkers.

As a kid, I LOVED being allowed to rip it all open with zero parental supervision, and I want Father Christmas to provide that same joy to my kids.

So what say you Era? Wrapped stocking presents or unwrapped?

 

[nicoga3000]

Stocking goodies were never wrapped, but tree stuff always was.

 

[ghostemoji]

Never heard of unwrapped Christmas presents before.

 

[Neptonic]

Stocking stuff doesn't need to wrapped, but unwrapped presents? Unheard of.

 

[Hollywood Duo]

Presents in general not even specific to Christmas.

 

[Ryuelli]

Never heard of unwrapped Christmas presents before.

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This, unless it's something like a bike.

 

[Sunster]

kids love to unwrap presents. let them have their thing. i'm positive that there is environmentally safe wrapping paper.

 

[Dark Knight]

This, unless it's something like a bike.

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Even then you might wrap it ironically, like spend the time individually wrapping every weird shape on it so it's obvious it is a bike when they first see it.

 

[Nida]

My parents never wrapped the stocking stuff. It was just candy, Pokemon Cards, and a pair of nail clippers every year. All the other presents were certainly wrapped.

 

[Hanbei]

My wife is telling me that they should never be wrapped

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Has she explained why?

 

[aevanhoe]

Never heard of "Father Christmas" before. As for Santa's gifts - wrapped, ofc.

 

[jesu]

The paper is recyclable so yes.

 

[echoshifting]

Wrap em up.

 

[ned_ballad]

My parents/grandparents never wrapped stuff from Santa. They only wrapped the stuff that was specifically from them and not "Santa"

 

[RaySpencer]

Our Santa gifts were never wrapped, we would always just wake up and see separate piles of toys (one for me, and one for my brother) from Santa. So we could always wake up early, and play with all that stuff, then when the adults would get up, we could all open the presents that were wrapped under the tree from family members.

 

[Sikamikanico]

Has she explained why?

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So her explanation is "mine were never wrapped".

So it's more my family tradition versus hers I suppose. It's not to save the environment or anything, I'm just kidding around)

 

[Dream Machine]

You wrap them in a different paper from the paper you used for the other presents

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

We don't do Santa with our kids because we're no fun.

 

[VeePs]

So it's more my family tradition versus hers I suppose. It's not to save the environment or anything, I'm just kidding around)

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Yea so this was my whole thing. If you want to be environmentally conscience or something, don't wrap them, it makes sense!

If that doesn't change anything, I would say wrap them. Upto you tho. I thought it was uncommon but maybe not?

 

[piratepwnsninja]

Presents from Santa? We've never wrapped presents from Santa. Wrapped presents are from parents and siblings.

 

[Duane]

Oh, so this is one of those threads where the question in the title doesn't match the poll question.

The answers are

1. Presents from Santa get wrapped just like any other present.

2. presents in the stocking don't need to be wrapped.

 

[Tragicomedy]

We wrap presents from us, but not the presents from Santa. Those are out under the tree ready for play on Christmas morning.

 

[Sikamikanico]

You wrap them in a different paper from the paper you used for the other presents

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Well duh, of course! Effectively it's just 'crap wrap' , as I make it all loose and easy to rip apart. They're 5 and 2 for goodness sake - let 'em have fun.

 

[VectorPrime]

When I was a kid presents from Santa weren't wrapped while presents from the family were.

 

[1000% H]

The stocking is the wrapping.

 

[piratepwnsninja]

We wrap presents from us, but not the presents from Santa. Those are out under the tree ready for play on Christmas morning.

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When I was a kid presents from Santa weren't wrapped while presents from the family were.

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This is correct.

Plus, not wrapping presents from Santa is great when they're getting something that is going to be a major pain in the ass to wrap.

 

[clockstrikes]

All of the presents I got were wrapped, but I think it's fine to leave the stuff that goes in the stocking as is.

 

[dennett316]

Yeah, they should be wrapped. Santa drops them off, but he doesn't have time to wrap them all, that's a job for mum and dad. Ripping open presents is great fun, part of the experience. Recycle the paper, and it's all good.

 

[laoni]

My stocking stuff was never wrapped, only presents outside

Also I wasn't allowed to open anything without parental supervision, whether it was fron Santa or not

 

[BearPawB]

Stocking presents were never wrapped
All other gifts were.

I don't think people are properly reading the question

 

[TaySan]

Everything other than stocking presents should be wrapped unless it's a really large present.

 

[CarpeDeezNutz]

The only present that was unwrapped was the one from Santa. The stockings had candy no presents.