by "Spaceball-Two" (spaceball-two)
Published 02/14/2017 at 16:42
by "Spaceball-Two" (spaceball-two)
Published 02/14/2017 at 16:42
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Show of hands! Is it just me? Why wouldn’t you wrap Santa’s gifts to your kids?
"facw" (facw)
02/14/2017 at 16:44, STARS: 0
Not wrapping those gifts is nuts. Of course you wrap them. Drew is just lazy. Yeah, the kids will rip the wrappings off right away, but that’s true of any gift.
"MonkeePuzzle" (monkeypuzzle)
02/14/2017 at 16:46, STARS: 3
it would avoid the “hey, santa has the same paper as us”
"Spaceball-Two" (spaceball-two)
02/14/2017 at 16:46, STARS: 1
I did different paper than what mom and dad use. The fancy shiny shit. But not wrapping just seems totally lazy.
"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
02/14/2017 at 16:47, STARS: 1
Not if they fit in a stocking.
"Spaceball-Two" (spaceball-two)
02/14/2017 at 16:47, STARS: 2
Oh yeah I used the different paper on gifts from Santa.
"Spaceball-Two" (spaceball-two)
02/14/2017 at 16:48, STARS: 0
Ok. True.
I’m talking under the tree stuff.
"MonkeePuzzle" (monkeypuzzle)
02/14/2017 at 16:49, STARS: 0
I have so much to learn! I made up weak lies to cover.... these will likely come back to haunt me
"Spaceball-Two" (spaceball-two)
02/14/2017 at 16:50, STARS: 0
I use the fancy stuff on gifts from the big guy. The real shiny paper.
"Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck)
02/14/2017 at 16:51, STARS: 1
Think about your carbon footprint! Less wrapping equals less waste! You should read that awful Jez piece about the author not giving Christmas presents to her 3- and 5-year old daughters because she wanted to teach them that life isn’t fair or some such lesson!
"MonkeePuzzle" (monkeypuzzle)
02/14/2017 at 16:52, STARS: 0
woah woah woah! that guy is getting all the credit! santa gives like socks and stuff, and I’m the giver or ipads or $100 bills (ok not that stuff) and awesomeness.
"CalzoneGolem" (calzonegolem)
02/14/2017 at 16:53, STARS: 2
We do fancy paper and have stamps so the children won’t recognize our hand writing.
"CalzoneGolem" (calzonegolem)
02/14/2017 at 16:54, STARS: 0
What if Santa brings a bike or a bunk bed?
"MonkeePuzzle" (monkeypuzzle)
02/14/2017 at 16:55, STARS: 1
had to fake a letter from the elf on the shelf. that little nutjob looks like he writes with his left hand!
"Spaceball-Two" (spaceball-two)
02/14/2017 at 16:57, STARS: 1
Oh that’s some BULL SHIT right there!
"Spaceball-Two" (spaceball-two)
02/14/2017 at 16:59, STARS: 1
My wife tried to pull that “Santa gave you snow boots!” crap.
Me: “He also got you ALL THIS STAR WARS STUFF!”
"Spaceball-Two" (spaceball-two)
02/14/2017 at 17:00, STARS: 0
That gets a pass. But bonus points for putting all stuff together night of.
"Neil drives a beetle and a fancy beetle" (1500sand535)
02/14/2017 at 17:06, STARS: 0
My parents didn’t wrap santa presents. But some context may help. Usually my parents gave us most of our gifts, and santa gave us one “bigger” gift and a stocking. My parents would place the present out like commandos operating, under the cover of night, and between Christmas Eve night and Christmas morning, surprise the gifts would appear. And the rule was, once they were out, they were fair game to play with, so there was still the surprise of the gift, and there was no pressure for anyone to wake up early. If my 17 year old brother didn’t care about santa; then me his 8 year old brother, could happily build a Lego castle or GI Joe tank while he slept.
I also think in lots of people’s heads santa travels with just the toys and pulls them as needed from his bag for kids without the wrapping.
So far, as a parent, I have wrapped all presents.
"Carbon Fiber Sasquatch" (turbopumpkin)
02/14/2017 at 17:07, STARS: 0
We don’t wrap the big things from Santa, and Santa has special wrapping paper. My daughter got a big play kitchen this year and instead of wrapping it and leaving it in the box, I put it together and put a big “From Santa” tag on it. Santa wouldn’t leave things in boxes or not put together.
Plus it makes things more special when Santa doesn’t do what mom and dad do
"Carbon Fiber Sasquatch" (turbopumpkin)
02/14/2017 at 17:09, STARS: 1
What the hell is wrong with people? What life lesson is going to get through to a preschooler?
"Spaceball-Two" (spaceball-two)
02/14/2017 at 17:09, STARS: 0
It just seems odd to me.
"PotbellyJoe and 42 others" (potbellyjoe)
02/14/2017 at 17:10, STARS: 1
My wife and I don’t. We wrap the gifts from us, but one gift a year is from Santa to each of the boys, it’s assembled, it’s placed in front of the tree, it gets a special tag put on it.
“Santa is too busy to wrap your gift.”
"Spaceball-Two" (spaceball-two)
02/14/2017 at 17:11, STARS: 0
I can understand on the big items (bike, kitchen thingy, doll house, etc.) and we used different paper too.
"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
02/14/2017 at 17:11, STARS: 0
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. But now that I think about it, there’s not much point, really. Sure, the other gifts need to stay disguised for a week or two, but Santa’s don’t even make their appearance until the last minute. Might as well just have them already open, and call that the first round of gift-opening.
"Spaceball-Two" (spaceball-two)
02/14/2017 at 17:12, STARS: 0
But but he has elves!
Free slave labor!
"Spaceball-Two" (spaceball-two)
02/14/2017 at 17:15, STARS: 0
Discounting large items (bikes, etc.) I just think if I would have opened a Game Boy on Xmas and had my parents say it was from Santa but he’s a busy guy and doesn’t wrap stuff I’d be pretty bummed.
"PotbellyJoe and 42 others" (potbellyjoe)
02/14/2017 at 17:18, STARS: 1
Not in this house at least.
"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
02/14/2017 at 17:21, STARS: 0
Honestly, the charm of unwrapping gifts was lost on me at an early age. I came very close to accidentally having a new toy thrown out with the mountain of paper during a mid-Christmas-morning cleanup.
"Spaceball-Two" (spaceball-two)
02/14/2017 at 17:23, STARS: 0
I lost a $50 Home Depot gift card that way last year.
"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
02/14/2017 at 17:25, STARS: 0
Ouch! That sucks.
"Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck)
02/14/2017 at 17:27, STARS: 2
Sounds like you just arent WOKE enough.
"Future next gen S2000 owner" (future-next-gen-s2000-owner)
02/14/2017 at 17:27, STARS: 2
That their mom is a terrible person.
"Carbon Fiber Sasquatch" (turbopumpkin)
02/14/2017 at 17:42, STARS: 1
When you start doing the opposite of what Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers say, you need to rethink your life choices
"Neil drives a beetle and a fancy beetle" (1500sand535)
02/14/2017 at 17:44, STARS: 2
As a kid, I liked it, and it helped make santa a little more real.
"DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time" (dc3ls-)
02/14/2017 at 17:52, STARS: 0
Wait Santa’s not real!!!??
"404 - User No Longer Available" (toni-cipriani)
02/14/2017 at 17:56, STARS: 0
"Spaceball-Two" (spaceball-two)
02/14/2017 at 17:56, STARS: 0
Oh. Um. Awkward...
"Spaceball-Two" (spaceball-two)
02/14/2017 at 17:58, STARS: 0
Fair point.
"19JRC99" (19jrc99)
02/14/2017 at 17:59, STARS: 0
My parents never did. They’d wrap the gifts from them and my grandparents, but Santa’s weren’t.
"Spaceball-Two" (spaceball-two)
02/14/2017 at 18:00, STARS: 0
Interesting. I’m seeing about a 50/50 split in the comments.
"19JRC99" (19jrc99)
02/14/2017 at 18:03, STARS: 0
I always go out there at 3 AM anyways. May as well give me something to obsess over while we wait for the others to get up.
"Spaceball-Two" (spaceball-two)
02/14/2017 at 18:04, STARS: 1
My kid was up at 5:30 on Christmas. It was brutal!
"19JRC99" (19jrc99)
02/14/2017 at 18:09, STARS: 1
Again, I was always up by 3. Dad never really slept up until a year or two ago. Mom did, and waking my sister was and still is a pain.
"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
02/14/2017 at 18:15, STARS: 0
This is more important than you realize. Better get some Santa paper and stash it.
"Xyl0c41n3" (i-am-xyl0c41n3)
02/14/2017 at 18:38, STARS: 1
At my house, we did Christmas on Christmas Eve. Usually around midnight... but it eventually got earlier and earlier, until we started opening presents around 9 p.m. And all the gifts from “Santa” were wrapped.
The combination of Christmas Eve present-opening, lack of a fireplace, and knowing my dad would don the jolly red suit (and stuff it with a pillow because he’s always been a thin man) before heading out to play Santa at his job meant I never really believed in Santa Claus to begin with.
Didn’t ever believe in the Easter Bunny or the Tooth Fairy, either, what with her handwriting being eerily similar to my mom’s.
Mom still signs some of the gift tags as being from “Santa.”
"XJDano" (xjdano)
02/14/2017 at 18:43, STARS: 0
Santa doesn’t give my kids presents.
"Spaceball-Two" (spaceball-two)
02/14/2017 at 18:43, STARS: 1
We use different paper on Santa’s gifts to throw him off. I’m sure as he gets older he’ll get wise to it. He also didn’t buy when his aunt left the room and magically a giant bunny came walking in on Easter.
"Spaceball-Two" (spaceball-two)
02/14/2017 at 18:44, STARS: 0
Are they perpetually naught?
"XJDano" (xjdano)
02/14/2017 at 18:53, STARS: 2
We don’t see a point in lying to them, Santa, tooth ferry, Easter bunny laying eggs, all that stuff.
We do get them gifts and they are from “Mom & Dad”, we herd the kids and 1/2 of the adults will go hide eggs around the yard. We take the good parts, but when you lie, what will they actually believe?
My wife’s Brother-in-law says we are ruining our kids childhood, but I doubt they are really missing out on anything.
"Spaceball-Two" (spaceball-two)
02/14/2017 at 19:07, STARS: 0
To each their own. I highly doubt you’re ruining their childhood.
"jminer" (jminer)
02/14/2017 at 19:38, STARS: 0
Growing up our gifts from santa were unwrapped, but it was usually the excuse for a difficult to wrap item like a bike or something.
I have no kids and my wife and I will usually only wrap a few gifts and then just go to our respective offices and bring out the others one at a time behind our back.
"Spaceball-Two" (spaceball-two)
02/14/2017 at 19:41, STARS: 0
I can see large items not getting wrapped sure. We did that too before the kid came.
"Shamoononon drives like a farmer" (shamoononon)
02/14/2017 at 19:45, STARS: 0
I go so far as to make sure Santa’s wrapping paper is only on Santa’s gifts and that the leftover is never found.
"Spaceball-Two" (spaceball-two)
02/14/2017 at 19:46, STARS: 0
We do that too!