gift questions

Lizzy · Guru

gift questions

tammy · Senior Member

I wrap all Landon's in one paper and all Kylie's in another. They are all from Santa and I don't put them under the tree until the kids are asleep on Christmas Eve.

Our stocking are usually a mix of candy and small toys, etc... This year I don't think I got any candy though.

Sonya · Guru

One gift from mom and dad, rest from Santa. All gifts wrapped, even stocking gifts.

No candy.

Different wrap for Santa presents. Charlie found wrap last year that Santa used forcwork christmas party and was all interested. One paper for Josie, one for charlie.

Juanita · Guru

We do most gifts from Santa, we don't wrap them or stocking stuff. But they do get at least 3 or 4 under the tree from Mom and Dad.

As for stocking stuff, it varies: always some chocolate, then little stuff, like sticker books, little toys, sometimes toothbrushes, lip gloss, etc..

Chrissie · Guru

This year M2 is getting 2 gifts and his stocking from Santa. The rest are from mom and dad.

The Santa gifts will be unwrapped, and the mom and dad gifts are wrapped all in the same paper.

No candy here, just small toys in the stocking.

daisy · Guru

Sonya wrote:

One gift from mom and dad, rest from Santa. All gifts wrapped, even stocking gifts.

No candy.

Different wrap for Santa presents. Charlie found wrap last year that Santa used forcwork christmas party and was all interested. One paper for Josie, one for charlie.

ditto to all of this, but both kids get the same paper, and i did get them one chocolate santa each for their stockings.

Robin · Guru

Lizzy wrote:

do you usually put all (or most) of the gifts from Santa?

how many do you usually put from yourself, ie "mom" & 'dad"?

Do you wrap all the santa gifts or just leave those unwrapped?

do you use different wrapping paper for Santa gifts?

what about stockings? do you usally put candy in there or candy and toys?

The kids get 3 wrapped gifts from us (and/or each other). Often we open those before Christmas. I let the kids open one each yesterday.

Santa brings one or two asked-for item/s, and he does not wrap. He just takes the toys out of his pack and sets them down by the tree. Also, he usually brings stuff that is too big or awkwardly-shaped to wrap.

He also fills the stockings--with candy and toys.

supergrover · Guru

Santa brings them 1-2 gifts that are in Santa gift bags, but unwrapped. These are the most wanted toys. So this year, Buzz Light Year and a Thomas train. Everything else is wrapped from us, or tagged who it is from. Blue paper=Koda, Red=Tristen, Green= to both of them.

We winged it with the gifts my dad sent and decided last minute that the mailman would leave a little something from Grampa outside the door each say this week. Amazing, and will for sure do again. Helpd contain the over-bubbling excitement, and I think appreciate my dads gifts more since they will be crazy overwhelmed Christmas morning.

Stockings are left in their room filled with little toys and things like toothpaste. No candy at all. The closest thing is dried fruit.

Cuppycake · Guru

do you usually put all (or most) of the gifts from Santa? No. I know I go crazy, and my worst fear is that Hannah will go to school and say she got this and that, and that someone in her class would want to know why she got something from Santa and they didn't. So, one (the big, or most wanted gift) is from Santa, everything else is from us.

how many do you usually put from yourself, ie "mom" & 'dad"? I don't, lol. Hannah and Joe get seperate wrapping paper, so I don't tag anything that is for them.

Do you wrap all the santa gifts or just leave those unwrapped? Santa gift is unwrapped.

do you use different wrapping paper for Santa gifts?

what about stockings? do you usally put candy in there or candy and toys? a mix of candy, toys, and practical stuff, usually.

Toni · Guru

Well, this will be the first year we wrap Santa presents. We have so few of them, we wanted to make the fun of Christmas morning last a little longer, so they can enjoy tearing their things open.

The only gift from mom and dad will be their jammies. Everything else is from Santa. That's how my family always did it; once we stopped believing in Santa, things were slowly labeled from mom and dad.

We have some candy (not much), and a few bath items for stockings this year.

kdrew · Guru

I wrap the santa gifts in different wrapping paper and I write those tags out in cursive so they're a little different.

I make most of the gifts from santa and only a few from us. That way Christmas morning there are a good amount of new gifts under the tree that santa delivered.

sbucking · Guru

Santa brings the kids each one individual present and then a few to share which are usually games. Santa has his own special wrapping paper and the gifts are left under the stockings in from of the fire place. All the rest of the gifts are from Mom and Dad.

When we are home, we go to my parents on Christmas Eve and open presents there. Then on Christmas morning we open Santa's presents and stockings, eat breakfast, and then open the rest of the presents under the tree which are from Mark's family and us.

It's a whole different ball game when we are at Mark's parent's house every other year. How I love to be at home!!!

a_mastermom · Guru

Everything is from Santa. Sometime the stockings have candy, sometimes not. But everything is wrapped. Each of the kids gifts are wrapped in different paper (but that is really just to make things easier for me to keep track of, lol).

Alicia · Senior Member

All gifts are from mom and dad except the one from stephen. All are wrapped and put under the tree after she goes to bed tonight. Stocking has mostly toys with some candy.

sappy · Guru

sbucking wrote:

Santa brings the kids each one individual present and then a few to share which are usually games. Santa has his own special wrapping paper and the gifts are left under the stockings in from of the fire place. All the rest of the gifts are from Mom and Dad.

When we are home, we go to my parents on Christmas Eve and open presents there. Then on Christmas morning we open Santa's presents and stockings, eat breakfast, and then open the rest of the presents under the tree which are from Mark's family and us.

It's a whole different ball game when we are at Mark's parent's house every other year. How I love to be at home!!!

this is exactly how we do it except santa's gifts are mixed in with ours.

CoffeeQueen · Guru

One or two from Mom and Dad and the rest all Santa. We wrap Santa and each girl gets her own paper. They actually pick the paper out. We tell them Santa cannot wrap them all before so he comes to each house and wraps the gifts so he knows what he is giving each kid. This way we avoid all issues with finding paper, etc. So far it works.

Oh, we wrap our gifts to them too, unless it is big. Like this year Allie is getting a doll house from us and that is being all set up and the stuff in it. Mia gets a little people doll house and we will have that out as well.

Stocking items are not wrapped. It varies what goes in there. This year some Hello Kitty stuff, lip gloss, Book, strawberry shortcake mini doll, disney princess mini doll, etc. Only one thing of candy goes in.

CheleLyn · Senior Member

My kids usually get 3 gifts for xmas day...those are from us. only daniel gets a santa gift bc hes the only one who believes...the other kids are totally fine with it and actually help decide what his gift will be and they help with the whole excitement of it. the santa gift is not wrapped

the stocking are filled with small things they want/need along with a small amount of candy. idk who those are from though---i've never said either way :dunno:

apies · Guru

we put gifts that come in from out of town family & friends under the tree as they arrive.

all of the gifts that we buy just have the kids' names on them - we don't specify
who they are from. we leave that vague. idk why. just how we do it. we also don't coordinate wrapping paper in any way - i just wrap stuff until that roll is gone and then move on to something else.

everything gets wrapped except for unwrappable stuff. this year that means jake's bike and we are leaving emily's barista set unwrapped so jake isn't the only one with an unwrapped gift.

in their stockings goes a variety of stuff - dvd, candy, $1 toys, etc. i don't always do candy in the kids' stockings, but i do in matt's. this year they're all getting candy. i do tend to wrap everything in there.

Lizzy · Guru

Thanks everyone! I had a total brain freeeze while wrapping presents! I am going to leave four gifts from us - and the rest for santa, along with the two unwrapped presents - the dollhouse and table and chairs. I am just putting candy and a couple toys in the stocking.

daisy · Guru

apies wrote:

we put gifts that come in from out of town family & friends under the tree as they arrive.

all of the gifts that we buy just have the kids' names on them - we don't specify
who they are from. we leave that vague. idk why. just how we do it. we also don't coordinate wrapping paper in any way - i just wrap stuff until that roll is gone and then move on to something else.

everything gets wrapped except for unwrappable stuff. this year that means jake's bike and we are leaving emily's barista set unwrapped so jake isn't the only one with an unwrapped gift.

in their stockings goes a variety of stuff - dvd, candy, $1 toys, etc. i don't always do candy in the kids' stockings, but i do in matt's. this year they're all getting candy. i do tend to wrap everything in there.

barista set? i'm intrigued. link please?