Does Santa wrap presents in your house?

RatLabGuy

RatLabGuy

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How does the Santa's presents thing work in your house? Ive seen a lot of different ways. Do Santa presents get wrapped? Do all the presents get put under the tree on Christmas after kids go to bed, or slowly accumulate during the buildup?

In our home, people wrap presents for each other, including to/from kids, between adults, etc, and they pile up under the tree as they get prepared. Everybody has a stocking by the fireplace, even the dog.
Late on Christmas night, Santa visits and sets out 1-2 presents for each kids, unwrapped and if appropriate, assembled, and stuffs all stockings. Actually, for awhile only the kids' stocking got stuffed, then last year I decided to throw stuff into hers and mine too, then this year we agreed to stuff each others'.
Stocking stuff is cheap knickknacks, like candy, dollar toys, goofy socks (for all!), colorful winter caps, etc.

Thinking back, even when we were adults home form college etc, everybody who was in the house on Christmas morning would magically have a stuffed stocking regardless of age.


On a semi-related note - this was the first year in a long time we didn't find ourselves assembling anything on Christmas eve. It was both joyous and kind of sad.
 
Does both here. When I was a kid, all the Santa gifts were unwrapped. The wife would prefer to wrap everything, but I make her leave quite a bit unwrapped as well.
 
I’m usually up till about 3-5am xmas morning wrapping presents to stage under the tree,so that fat bastard can get all the credit!
 
RatLabGuy said:
Do Santa presents get wrapped? Do all the presents get put under the tree on Christmas after kids go to bed,
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Back when Jake was little,yes and yes.
 
Santa doesn't wrap. This year I didn't even put up a tree and the kid's presents got wrapped yesterday and today before they got to my house. This has been the least Christmassy Christmas I've ever had.


Edit to add: Santa doesn't come here anymore either.
 
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When Daddy was a kid, Santa didn't wrap any of his presents. Santa wrapped all of Mama's presents. So when I was a kid Santa did a mix: bigger things left unwrapped, smaller stuff wrapped. This was Maddi's first year really understanding Santa so he wrapped two gifts and left two unwrapped.

Duane
 
C.Berry said:
I’m usually up till about 3-5am xmas morning wrapping presents to stage under the tree,so that fat bastard can get all the credit!
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aaaaaand that is the #1 reason we don't do it!

Big downside is we have to prevent the kids from going into the den where the tree etc is before we get up Christmas morning sine the gifts are exposed.
Our son, who is 14, could be happy still just sleeping until 10 but our 8 y/o daughter is busting at the seams by 7am. It's become almost a game to us to make her wait it out, she wake up her brother then comes into our bedroom and we all cuddle in the bed awhile until she is so antsy nobody can take it anymore lol.
 
Santa had special paper....usually the plainest ugly mess.
Bigger stuff was set out. He didn't have time for all that mess.

One year as a kid I recognized Santa paper on a non Santa gift. Can't recall the lame excuse but I remember the scar.
 
Growing up wife and I had similar experiences...presents accumulated. But 1-2 presents from Santa showed up before we woke up for Christmas Day. Santa presents were always wrapped. We plan on continuing the same. I remember questioning my mom once about the Santa paper matching the other presents...she told me the stores she got her paper from get it from Santa. And that was that.
 
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