This is the fist year I've done an actual stocking, Thomas is understanding a lot this year so I think it will be nice for him. I've only got smallish stockings so got loads of little bits and bobs to go in.

Just wondering - do I wrap each little bit individually and stick it in so they've got more opening to do OR is the stocking the actual wrapping and just pop all the little bits in to dig out? We never had stockings as kids so not sure what the etiquette is - what do you do?

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I wrap the little pressies?
But leave things like gold coins unwrapped (obv) ... although only daddy gets them atm.
My mum use to put fruit in as well... went straight back in the fruit bowl xx

I'll wrap some and leave some unwrapped ... like Grace says things like the little nets of coins wont get wrapped and neither would a piece of fruit .. but somehting like the wooden russian dolls I have taken out of the shop packaging and stacked inside each other and that will be wrapped

Izzy LOVES yanking paper off parcels .. as you can imagine she isn't very good at playing pass the parcel

i wrap everything lol except gold coins , i have wrapped up a tube of chocolate buttons for her stocking oh and of course i never wrap the big chocolate santa that just has to sit at the very top of the stocking.

I wrapped each thing last year and will do the same this year x

I dont wrap ANYTHING!!! Santa doesnt have time to wrap presents

All Caitlins big/medium presents are left piled/displayed lol on sofa and stocking draped on arm of it filled with small things. Last year I even took a few things out of the boxes so she could play with them straight away and I didnt have all those fiddly ties to deal with on xmas morning!

My mum never wrapped my Santa presents & I never questioned it growing up. Its only now I realise its more common to wrap. But honestly why bother? All that hassle, expense, waste of paper. I/Caitlin still got excited seeing all the toys laid out. You can display things to cover up things & you get so distracted looking at one thing you dont notice another toy for a min or 2....

She gets to unwrap loads of gifts from friends and family throughout the day so doesnt totally miss out on unwrapping things. I wouldnt have it any other way!

We've wrapped everything individually too xx

I would wrap everything individually too much more fun

i havent wrapped anything in the stockings, its full of weird shapes and fragile chocccies lol so wouldnt dare mess about wrapping them and letting kids destroy them opening it!
Plus they will have load sof pressies to open!
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Yeah, I have wrapped everything that goes in the stocking.

Purely so I can have an extra 5 minutes peace while they unwrap more stuff x

I wrapped everything last year other then coins x
this year il wrap his toys n bit but not the chocolate stuff no point x

Our stockings consist of a bit of wrapped up pressies and also things like chocolate orange and other sweeties. Thats just what my mum and dad did with me and my sis (still do) xx

Not really bothering this year as everythings going to my parents house except the dollhouse and awens cube and other peoples presents so i bought two massive sacks to transport em. But if i do it next year id wrap most of it

I wrap everything (me and Adam have always done stockings for each other). Half the fun is feeling them and trying to work out what they are

Ok cool that's settled that then - tomorrow I shall be wrapping all my little pressies and stuffing stockings - eek excited!! I need choc coins though! How did i forget choc coins??? I do have lindt reindeers though so I guess that makes up for it?

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Wrap everything in stocking apart from the choc coins and the satsuma! Rhys will have a stocking too this year! We also always have at least new knickers/pants and socks in them too and sometimes a new outfit!

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Hmmmmmm ive not done a crimbo outfit foe the kids yet so might brave the shops on dec payday to pick em something pretty out and make it a stocking pressie

And if you do get an outfit you have to wear it Xmas day!
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lol Debs, how can you forget the coins?!

2 for 1 in Tesco!

Izzy goes through a lot of coins .. she think she gets paid with them for tidying toys etc ..well she aint wrong!

I wrap everything seperately, prolongs the excitement.