https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:43:45 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-santa-gifts-wrapped/page/2#post-998812 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 09:30:14 +0000 sheskrafty 998812@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Santa's gifts used to be unwrapped for us, until my brothers and I would wake up too early to see what Santa brought. Santa wised up and put everything in a big sealed Christmas bag so we'd have to wait until everyone was up to see what Santa brought. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-santa-gifts-wrapped/page/2#post-998774 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 09:21:21 +0000 LuLu Mom 998774@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My parents always put them in a big Chrsitmas Plastic Sack to with our name on it. It always looked like Santa's sack. The presents were not wrapped inside. I think I'll do the same! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-santa-gifts-wrapped/page/2#post-998726 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 09:10:36 +0000 HellOnHeels 998726@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Chalk up another one here for not knowing Santa's gifts weren't wrapped... never, ever heard of this. The only thing not wrapped was the stuff in our stockings.</p> <p>We actually "received" gifts from Mrs. Clause (always clothes), The Elves, and Rudolph (usually smaller gifts, like movies/vid or board games) too. Santa's was always the big one. I'll definitely be doing this for our kids, too. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-santa-gifts-wrapped/page/2#post-998684 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 09:00:46 +0000 Charm54 998684@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The big gifts were unwrapped, smaller gifts were wrapped! The Santa gifts were set up on the couches beside our stockings...we opened those first before we went on to the under the tree gifts from parents, grandparents etc. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-santa-gifts-wrapped/page/2#post-998674 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 08:58:38 +0000 T-Mom 998674@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My santa gifts were always wrapped, and in the SAME paper as everything else, and the "From Santa" was written in my mom's handwriting. Guess we were just completely gullible since we never put 2+2 together until we found the gifts in the closet one year... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-santa-gifts-wrapped/page/2#post-998666 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 08:56:48 +0000 pui 998666@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Smurfette: I agree!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-santa-gifts-wrapped/page/2#post-998656 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 08:54:31 +0000 Smurfette 998656@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Adira: I was shocked too when DH said his never were. Then talking with friends, they have had this debate with their DH as well. I told DH Santa gifts will be wrapped. I want to see our kids open then gifts and their expression when they are super excited. I just don't see how you do that when they aren't wrapped. And especially when you have two. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-santa-gifts-wrapped/page/2#post-998643 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 08:51:28 +0000 Smurfette 998643@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrs. 64: We open gifts one at time too. I like it thought cause this way I get to see everything At DH's it is a free for all and I don't see anyone open our gift or what else they get. I don't like it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-santa-gifts-wrapped/page/2#post-998553 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 08:35:28 +0000 swurlygurl 998553@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sslm: I was oging to say - if he wants them wrapped then maybe he can do it! Glad he admitted that he wouldn't wrap them - haha</p> <p>Ours were always wrapped, I didn't even know Santa didn't wrap presents for some families ;) Unwrapping presents is so exciting! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-santa-gifts-wrapped/page/2#post-998421 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 07:41:12 +0000 Adira 998421@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>WTF! People don't wrap Santa's gifts??? This is BLOWING MY MIND!!!!</p> <p>Santa's gifts were ALWAYS wrapped in special fancy paper with a note signed in a glittery pen!!! I'm excited to do the same for my kids!</p> <p>@mrs. 64: My family is the same way - everyone takes turns opening a present and we just go round and round until all the presents are open. Hubs' family isn't like that though - everyone just tears into their gifts at the same time. I'm not sure what we'll do with our own family! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-santa-gifts-wrapped/page/2#post-998411 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 07:34:32 +0000 mrs. 64 998411@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Santa always left ours in brown paper grocery bags with our initials on the outside. My parents reused the bags from year to year. Santa has since been doing this for my younger cousins as well. We will probably do this for our kids. My parents also have a strict policy that on Christmas morning everyone opens gifts one at a time, including those from Santa. It was a test of patience for sure! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-santa-gifts-wrapped/page/2#post-998348 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 07:05:40 +0000 Koolbreeze 998348@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Unwrapped! My mom use to say "do you want Santa to wrap your presents? He wanted me to ask. I think you get more if he doesn't wrap them....." Hahaha her way of getting out of wrapping stuff. My SO's family did some wrapped and some unwrapped. So we do unwrapped too. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-santa-gifts-wrapped/page/2#post-998340 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 07:03:55 +0000 sslm 998340@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Also - glad this turned into such a long/fun thread! Hilarious! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-santa-gifts-wrapped/page/2#post-998336 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 07:03:07 +0000 sslm 998336@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: haha! Mini toy store... Exactly :)</p> <p>So I was telling DH about this thread, and I said he wasn't going to win this fight, and he was like "hey, I think it's super weird but I'M not going to wrap presents so it'll end up being whatever you want". Score! :P </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-santa-gifts-wrapped/page/2#post-998323 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 06:58:20 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 998323@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm really liking the idea of unwrapped and assembled gifts. I hated waiting for my dad to put my stuff together before I could play with it. Just thinking about a mini toy store set up under the tree makes me happy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-santa-gifts-wrapped/page/2#post-998270 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 06:31:01 +0000 JerricaBenton 998270@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Wrapped in special Santa paper! No idea what DH's parents did but he's all about my side's Christmas experience since we make it so fun. We even wrap some stocking stuffers! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-santa-gifts-wrapped/page/2#post-998263 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 06:26:16 +0000 MrsTiz 998263@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Wrapped, always. In a different paper than my parents used. DH's parents do the same thing, so no debate there :)</p> <p>I am so looking forward to doing it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-santa-gifts-wrapped/page/2#post-998255 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 06:15:37 +0000 Dandelion 998255@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ours were wrapped...don't know about DH's...probably wrapped, too, knowing his mom. I love wrapping presents for DS, and wrapping them deters any snooping (he hasn't started it yet, but I'm prepared. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-santa-gifts-wrapped/page/2#post-998253 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 06:09:34 +0000 NavyRN2012 998253@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: no, they aren't hard to wrap. We get DS a good variety of things, so it's not a bunch of the same thing under the tree. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-santa-gifts-wrapped/page/2#post-998236 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 05:47:00 +0000 jhd 998236@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ours were wrapped but DH's parents don't wrap them. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-santa-gifts-wrapped#post-998159 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 02:10:04 +0000 TheSwissWifeStyle 998159@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ours were always wrapped unless it was something big, like a desk or a bike. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-santa-gifts-wrapped#post-998049 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 00:03:23 +0000 Reese 998049@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrsjazz: ELVES! obviously. </p> <p>This unwrapped presents thing is blowing.my.mind! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-santa-gifts-wrapped#post-998013 Wed, 07 Aug 2013 23:10:57 +0000 wheres_c 998013@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Wow I had no clue that there were some houses Santa didn wrp gifts! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-santa-gifts-wrapped#post-998008 Wed, 07 Aug 2013 22:58:44 +0000 MamaJ 998008@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Always unwrapped and assembled if necessary. That's how you knew they were from Santa. DHs parents wrapped theirs and that isn't going to fly in our house. It's the ONE tradition I had growing up that I want to keep. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-santa-gifts-wrapped#post-997995 Wed, 07 Aug 2013 22:42:52 +0000 Pepper 997995@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Unwrapped because Santa doesn't have time to wrap presents! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-santa-gifts-wrapped#post-997915 Wed, 07 Aug 2013 21:41:28 +0000 Mrs Hedgehog 997915@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My parents wrapped most in Santa wrapping paper and left larger Santa gifts unwrapped. We also had gifts just from Santa we could open at any time (to keep us occupied while they slept in a little more) and family gifts that we had to open as a family one at a time. We plan on doing that with our kids. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-santa-gifts-wrapped#post-997911 Wed, 07 Aug 2013 21:40:20 +0000 mrsjazz 997911@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@pui: Hahaha. Ok, so you have a point. Hey, I never believed in Santa, but my mom's rule was that her gifts were wrapped and Santa's just had a gift tag.</p> <p>@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: Barbie would be outside of the box. All of Santa's presents were assembled. Those gifts were always the big things that we wanted and caught our eyes first. I loved the unwrapped presents! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-santa-gifts-wrapped#post-997901 Wed, 07 Aug 2013 21:32:56 +0000 Beebug 997901@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I can't get over this (amazing) thread!</p> <p>Unwrapped!!!!</p> <p>Santa just leaves the gifts, assembled if needed and ready to go out front the tree with a stocking with the wrapped gifts from family tucked under the tree!</p> <p>Wrapped just doesn't make sense to me but it was amazing reading this to even consider that wrapped Santa gifts are "okay" :p </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-santa-gifts-wrapped#post-997891 Wed, 07 Aug 2013 21:26:59 +0000 PointeShoesTutus 997891@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ours were always unwrapped and assembled (if necessary) come Christmas morning. DH's family wrapped his. I never thought about this before I saw this thread. I'm sure we will have quite the debate about it once the time comes. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-santa-gifts-wrapped#post-997889 Wed, 07 Aug 2013 21:23:29 +0000 MsLipGloss 997889@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Unwrapped and assembled! </p>