Does Santa wrap the presents he brings to your house?

fro9etb8j5qsl2

He's much too busy can't be ársed to wrap the stuff he brings to us. We wrap our presents to each other and for family and friends though. OH says his Santa presents were always wrapped as a child. I can only remember the odd 'special surprise' being wrapped for us. Tbh, I don't think I would have liked everything being wrapped because I'd be anxious that I didn't get what I asked for I much rathered walking into the room and seeing everything there laid out ready to play with

Toto Wolfcastle

They were never wrapped in my house growing up. Santa wraps my nephews' presents though. I must find out why!

The_Valeyard

Santa brought everything in bin bags to our house as kids. Saved time.

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No - the lazy bastard!

Lisha

Toto Wolfcastle wrote: »

They were never wrapped in my house growing up. Santa wraps my nephews' presents though. I must find out why!

Cos their Santa has notions!!

Lisha

Not wrapped when I was a child and now Santa doesn't wrap my children's gifts either.

SEPT 23 1989

No Santa can barely put them together let alone wrap them

Turtle_

Always wrapped. Extends the fun! When else do you get a mountain of presents to unwrap?

kitten_k

Always unwrapped and set up in our house. Meant we could just get straight into playing with them.

Toto Wolfcastle

Lisha wrote: »

Cos their Santa has notions!!

He delivered the wrapping paper already (it would take up too much space on the sleigh otherwise) and it has emojis on it. Notions!

Sleeper12

Santa never wrapped my presents. I think he doesn't wrap them so you know what ones he brought. Clever fella if you ask me.

Sleeper12

SEPT 23 1989 wrote:

No Santa can barely put them together let alone wrap them

The trick is no alcohol beforehand.

fro9etb8j5qsl2

Actually that reminds me I remember a woman on another forum who used to wrap everything (up to 40 presents including little stocking fillers) for her little boy every year AND wrote a little personal note from santa on each one.

She was usually way ahead with her wrapping but had left it til the last minute and was literally facing a huge mountain to wrap and write notes for on xmas eve. She was begging for advice online but refused to entertain the notion of not writing personal notes on each gift as her son enjoyed reading them and wouldn't be happy without them :eek:

mdwexford

Wrapped of course.

Shocked at the amount of lazy non wrappers here.

Alicat

Unwrapped!

I think it made it more exciting.

Sunny Dayz

Not Wrapped. Santa doesn't have the time or patience to wrap his presents!

missvicky

The things we asked for were always unwrapped and then a small few surprises were wrapped. Santa will do the same this year for our kids,I think it adds to the excitement

Crazyteacher

Unwrapped here too. Sometimes Santa misplaced my presents and I'd find them during the year:)

mcgiggles

Always wrapped! Sometimes in Christmas sacks too!

Seve OB

Steven Ashy Newsman wrote: »

He's much too busy can't be ársed to wrap the stuff he brings to us. We wrap our presents to each other and for family and friends though. OH says his Santa presents were always wrapped as a child. I can only remember the odd 'special surprise' being wrapped for us. Tbh, I don't think I would have liked everything being wrapped because I'd be anxious that I didn't get what I asked for I much rathered walking into the room and seeing everything there laid out ready to play with

Same argument in my house. I'm same as you. Santa doesn't wrap, but did for my missus. he doesn't for our kids

Seve OB

this thread needs a poll

hairyprincess

Definitely wrapped here! You can't beat the thrill of tearing off the wrapping paper to see what is inside!
And it's always Santa paper and Santa writes on a piece of paper with his left hand who the presents are to and from.

omb0wyn5ehpij9

Turtle_ wrote: »

Always wrapped. Extends the fun! When else do you get a mountain of presents to unwrap?

Same in my house growing up!

nala2012

Santa used to leave our presents under our jumpers that were left under the tree!

vicwatson

If only Santy left a phillips screwdriver as well that be great

Toto Wolfcastle

nala2012 wrote: »

Santa used to leave our presents under our jumpers that were left under the tree!

That's really cute.

Ours were always laid out on the couch and our interests were always varied enough that we'd know straight away which pile was ours.

vicwatson

Steven Ashy Newsman wrote: »

He's much too busy can't be ársed to wrap the stuff he brings to us. We wrap our presents to each other and for family and friends though. OH says his Santa presents were always wrapped as a child. I can only remember the odd 'special surprise' being wrapped for us. Tbh, I don't think I would have liked everything being wrapped because I'd be anxious that I didn't get what I asked for I much rathered walking into the room and seeing everything there laid out ready to play with

Ps who the f is santa? it's santy to us Irish :rolleyes:

seamus

Never wrapped when I was a kid. And I can totally understand why. Santa doesn't wrap my daughter's presents either. There's enough waste packing to go in the bin!

Santa also didn't put our presents together, that would have ruined a massive part of the fun. To be fair, I haven't had to do that yet (dolls need no assembly!), but I would do it for a child under 4 years of age.

Teyla Emmagan

I have never in my life heard of Santy not wrapping presents.

That's about the laziest thing ever.

Rosie Gold

I don't think I'll bother wrapping them, even though my daughter has expectations now that they should be wrapped from learning Christmas songs at Montessori- wrap the presents happily fa la la la la la la la. I really need to get out to the garage and start assembling soon.

Carlosthejakal

Sometimes wrapped as a child,
Never wrapped for OH as a child

Always wrapped now for ours, as we think it adds to the excitment

Rosie Gold

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

I have never in my life heard of Santy not wrapping presents.

That's about the laziest thing ever.

I agree with Seamus though. There's enough packaging, bubble wrap etc going into recycling and/or waste that we don't need to add to the problem. We're literally just a crowd of wasters.

Turtle_

Rosie Gold wrote: »

I agree with Seamus though. There's enough packaging, bubble wrap etc going into recycling and/or waste that we don't need to add to the problem. We're literally just a crowd of wasters.

So use the wrapping paper to start fires instead of newspaper... Seriously, it's a bit of wrapping paper. Don't get all high horse over it.

Rosie Gold

Turtle_ wrote: »

So use the wrapping paper to start fires instead of newspaper... Seriously, it's a bit of wrapping paper. Don't get all high horse over it.

Em take a chill. You're the one wound up. If I don't want to wrap the presents, I ain't going to feel guilty about it.

CelticRambler

Wrapping paper is useless for the fire.

Santa never wrapped my presents as a child and it didn't dampen the enthusiasm, because there was an ever-increasing pile of wrapped presents being put under the tree by various family members.

Turtle_

Rosie Gold wrote: »

Em take a chill. You're the one wound up. If I don't want to wrap the presents, I ain't going to feel guilty about it.

Eh, it's the non-wrappers calling anyone who wraps presents wasters. It's a bit of flipping paper. Chill.

Rosie Gold

Turtle_ wrote: »

Eh, it's the non-wrappers calling anyone who wraps presents wasters. It's a bit of flipping paper. Chill.

I was including myself in that. We're all wasters!

Rosie Gold

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

I have never in my life heard of Santy not wrapping presents.

That's about the laziest thing ever.

Not exercising for a year is lazy, not wrapping presents ain't. It's hardly an Olympic sport :P

MintyMagnum

Tis the elves do the wrapping.

seamus

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

I have never in my life heard of Santy not wrapping presents.

That's about the laziest thing ever.

It's about practicality in reality. Where do you find the time to take the stuff out of hiding and wrap it, while preventing the kids from accidentally spotting it.
Especially when you've got multiple children.

If I can schedule a few hours in December to get the kids out of the house, the last thing I'll be doing is climbing in and out of the attic to wrap some presents, when that wrapping won't make a blind bit of difference to the kids.

Seve OB

vicwatson wrote: »

Ps who the f is santa? it's santy to us Irish :rolleyes:

Only to the uneducated :rolleyes:

Posy

Oh my.

I'm locking this thread as it's descending into chaos!