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Growing up Santa gifts were wrapped. Santa brought us toys and we mostly were given toys. Stocking stuffers were unwrapped and came from Santa too. Our parents gave clothes for the most part. I forget who gave me my most cherished gift AG Samantha, but my mom hid her and we played hot & cold around the house until I found her.
@Adira: @yoursilverlining: if Santa wraps he should do it like you ladies and send a parcel.
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No, Santa doesn't wrap in my house. It all really started the year my son got a huge ride on, there was no way it could be wrapped as I had wanted it out of the box and assembled on Christmas morning.
I think this year Santa is going to do a sack.
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@yoursilverlining: Holy crap that's beautiful!!!
Santa always wrapped in our house and continues to. With different and special wrapping paper though!
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@Reese: @peaches1038: I just found them from Google image for like "Santa mail" - those sorts of keywords. I just printed them out on regular paper at work, cut them out and glue them. Super easy but looks really fun in person.
@WinterBee: @Ina85: @Foodnerd81: @Adira: @BUBBLEGUM: Thanks!!
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@Adira: I think a lot of households limit what Santa brings because they know that not all families can afford for "Santa" to bring lots of extravagant gifts. It helps preserve the magic a little better and makes Santa seem like less of a douche if he gets one small special thing for wealthy kids just like for less priviledged kids.
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We wrap all. Santa brings a couple fun things and the rest is from us.
1) when my kids go to school they don't need to be getting a lot from santa when some kids didn't. It's not fair for some kids to get a camera, Xbox, toys from santa and some to get a puzzle, for example.
2) that man isn't getting all the credit for my hard thought about gifts!
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@lilyofthewest: Which of my comments are you replying to? Just confused if I said thing to make you think Santa brings lots of extravagant gifts in our house. Our Santa has a budget - he brings the best gifts (of the gifts the kids get between Santa and Mom & Dad), but they are by no means extravagant or a lot of them! I think I was just trying to explain what Santa gives vs. what Mom & Dad gives, since we do both.
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@Adira: Ah, I think I misunderstood. In any case, I have no self-control
and my kid gets too many gifts from both us and from Santa.
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Santa brings one unwrapped gift and unwrapped stockings. Last year it was a balance bike. This year it will be a kitchen for both of them. Otherwise, the kids are getting only a few gifts. At least one will be from mom and dad, the other from their sibling. I don't bother with practical gifts; clothes will come as they need them.
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@lilyofthewest: haha, no worries! My budget is the only thing keeping my gift-buying under control!!
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E will be 5 this Christmas and DH and I still fight over this
In my house, all the gifts were wrapped. Santa had different paper and none of the gifts were put under the tree until we were asleep on Christmas Eve night. In DH's house, the family gifts were wrapped and put under the tree throughout the whole month of Dec and then Santa's gifts came on Christmas Eve unwrapped. Also, Santa brought the biggest gift.
Our compromise is that Santa gifts are half wrapped and half unwrapped, but Santa never brings the biggest gift. I could say it's because I don't want less fortunate children to feel bad when my kid says Santa bought him a brand new bike, but Santa only brought them an action figure... but really I want some credit, LOL. And I don't want the biggest gift to just be sitting in the living room unwrapped when they walk downstairs, then all the other gifts will be lack luster.
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@looch: I’m definitely digging the sack idea.
Having special Santa paper for each person sounds cute, and exhausting. I don’t want to get special paper/hide it every year lol. -
@Mrs. Champagne: Lol, I totally want the credit too.
This year Santa is bringing a couple smaller toys/books and DH and I are giving the big gift. Buuuttt she’s also 1 so she won’t know anyways lol. -
@kiddosc: My Christmas sounds the same as your partners and my DH’s Christmas sounds the same as yours.
I think that’s a decent compromise.
Something I also just thought of, I’ll be the one actually wrapping them... so maybe if I don’t then I don’t have to worry about it at all lol. -
Growing up, Santa's presents were all unwrapped and assembled and put out Christmas Eve night. My parents bought us other presents, which were wrapped and under the tree with all the other gifts. Santa usually brought the fun stuff, and presents from parents were more practical, like clothes.
We basically do the same now, except I try to scale back on the amount of gifts. My mom is one of those people who always went super overboard on Christmas. We try to be a little more realistic about storage space and the amount of things our daughter really needs. (I just wish all her grandparents would do the same...)
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So interesting to hear all of the different Santa traditions! I LOVE the kraft paper and tags from Santa but at our house he doesn't wrap any of the gifts or stockings. DS is only 2 this year so we are still defining some of our traditions but growing up my divorced parents did Christmas differently.
My Mom's house gifts were unwrapped and everything came from Santa except for 1 wrapped gift from our grandparents (usually clothes so they could be returned/exchanged if needed). Even my Mom got a few things from Santa. My Dad's house the gifts are all wrapped and some are from Santa some are from my Dad and Step Mom. She didn't even use separate paper though which I think is important for keeping up the mystery. My Mom gets super into Christmas and is big into keeping traditions and it made for such a fun holiday.
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@Bluemasonjar: Wait... so you'd come into the room at your Mom's house and all the gifts would just be sitting there? Nothing to unwrap?! That must make for a quick Christmas morning!
I always think it's so interesting to hear other family's traditions.
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@kiddosc: Yep, it went pretty quick once you identified which pile of gifts was yours. But Santa also brought our Christmas tree and decorated it so that was part of the excitement too. We are hoping to carry on that tradition.
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Growing up, our Santa didn't wrap. I only have 1 brother and our gifts were on separate couches. Most of the gifts were in the original packages. There would be 1-2 gifts from my parents, and they would be wrapped in special paper (mine was teddy bears, I can't remember what my brothers was).
"Our" Santa wraps everything. Each child has 1-2 special wrapping paper (different every year), depending on what they're "into" that year (Star Wars, Paw Patrol, and Disney Princesses this year). We typically give the kids a joint present from us (big wagon or something), which depending on size, is wrapped in a different paper.
This year we don't have a joint present, so I'm not sure what we are going to do there....
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@krispi: Sammmmeeee! I feel kind of bad because we barely have anything for my daughter, but we know her grandparents/aunts and uncles are going to go crazy. That and her birthday is 2 weeks after Christmas!
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@Bluemasonjar: Did you notice the same paper? I asked my husband if he noticed and he had no idea... but he’s also not very observant lol.
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@WinterBee: I noticed that it was the same paper as I got older and started looking for clues.
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Santa wraps! What I've done for big stuff is even assemble and then "wrap" it. The stocking stuff is generally unwrapped.
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our santa never wrapped! usually there would be a stocking with no toys wrapped and then a couple of gifts outside of it, also unwrapped and set up, which usually included the "main" present i was hoping for that year. i thought it was so fun to get to come out and immediately spy what you got--i remember getting an american girl doll (samantha--i am old haha) one year and being BESIDE myself with excitement because i had wanted it for two christmases.
so we've so far done the same thing but some of these beautiful santa packages have made me start to re-think! maybe we can do a mix.
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Not the stockings, but he may wrap a present. Santa doesn't bring a lot at our house.
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Santa wraps in special to only Santa paper.
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No wrapping - just stockings and in wrapped gifts!
Growing up santa always did the BIG gifts and our stockings. I did this last year (bounce house) but have since decided that santa is going to just do stockings and a few smaller unwrapped gifts...I don't need my kid being the one to break another kids heart when santa brings them a bounce house but can't afford to bring them something big...
This year mommy and daddy are getting credit for the big stuff!
and my kid gets too many gifts from both us and from Santa.
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