Does Santa wrap the presents he brings to your house?

fro9etb8j5qsl2 · 22-12-2016 8:35pm #1

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 · 22-12-2016 8:50pm

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

The_Valeyard · 22-12-2016 8:52pm

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

xlogo · 22-12-2016 8:52pm

No - the lazy bastard!

Lisha · 22-12-2016 8:52pm

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 · 22-12-2016 8:53pm

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

SEPT 23 1989 · 22-12-2016 8:53pm

No Santa can barely put them together let alone wrap them

Turtle_ · 22-12-2016 8:57pm

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

kitten_k · 22-12-2016 9:05pm

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

Toto Wolfcastle · 22-12-2016 9:08pm

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 · 22-12-2016 9:10pm

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 · 22-12-2016 9:11pm

SEPT 23 1989 wrote:

No Santa can barely put them together let alone wrap them

The trick is no alcohol beforehand.

fro9etb8j5qsl2 · 22-12-2016 9:12pm

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 · 22-12-2016 9:12pm

Wrapped of course.

Shocked at the amount of lazy non wrappers here.

Alicat · 22-12-2016 9:34pm

Unwrapped!

I think it made it more exciting.

Sunny Dayz · 22-12-2016 9:58pm

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

missvicky · 22-12-2016 10:01pm

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 · 22-12-2016 10:11pm

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

mcgiggles · 22-12-2016 10:14pm

Always wrapped! Sometimes in Christmas sacks too!

Seve OB · 22-12-2016 10:15pm

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 · 22-12-2016 10:15pm

this thread needs a poll

hairyprincess · 22-12-2016 10:20pm

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 · 23-12-2016 10:29am

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 · 23-12-2016 10:40am

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

vicwatson · 23-12-2016 10:42am

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

Toto Wolfcastle · 23-12-2016 10:44am

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 · 23-12-2016 10:44am

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 · 23-12-2016 10:45am

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 · 23-12-2016 10:48am

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

That's about the laziest thing ever.

Rosie Gold · 23-12-2016 10:49am

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 · 23-12-2016 10:49am

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 · 23-12-2016 10:50am

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_ · 23-12-2016 10:56am

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 · 23-12-2016 11:09am

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 · 23-12-2016 11:10am

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_ · 23-12-2016 11:22am

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 · 23-12-2016 11:24am

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 · 23-12-2016 11:26am

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 · 23-12-2016 11:34am

Tis the elves do the wrapping.

seamus · 23-12-2016 11:55am

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 · 23-12-2016 12:47pm

vicwatson wrote: »

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

Only to the uneducated :rolleyes:

Posy · 23-12-2016 1:07pm

Oh my.

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

Does Santa wrap the presents he brings to your house?

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