Santa's presents: wrapped or unwrapped

[saint]

Wife and I are trying to merge our traditions from childhood for our young children.

Santa's presents to your kids. Are they wrapped, or unwrapped and put together?

Is underneath your tree bare until xmas morning or are there presents that show up as it gets closer to xmas?

 

[airportis]

never heard of anyone putting unwrapped presents under a tree.

 

[jigs]

Unwrapped and put together

 

[Mr. Poon]

From growing up the only unwrapped ones were items perhaps too large or awkward and they just got a bow or ribbon on them, like a Tonka Truck.

Gifts start slowly accumulating as they get wrapped and the gifts from Santa are put out x-mas eve after the little one is asleep.

 

[Mr. Poon]

I know there is often an epiphany for kids when they notice Santa?s handwriting is the same as one of their parents. Mine was that Santa used the same wrapping paper occasionally. (So what if I was 16 when I finally realized that.)

 

[saint]

One of the few crystal-clear memories of childhood was the disappointment of learning santa was fake. Another clear memory was the pure excitement when I did believe, jumping on my bed in excitement on xmas eve.

Man I've gotta think with the internet, etc it's even tougher than ever to keep it magical for our kids.

 

[Redhog]

Wrapped....ripping those presents open is part of the fun:0074

 

[ppabart]

Growing up as a kid, Santa's presents were unwrapped and sitting in the living room when we ran down the stairs on Christmas morning. We all opened the wrapped presents on Christmas Eve. Nothing better than running into a room full of unopened gifts. I would find things an hour later that I hadn't seen yet

 

[saint]

Growing up as a kid, Santa's presents were unwrapped and sitting in the living room when we ran down the stairs on Christmas morning. We all opened the wrapped presents on Christmas Eve. Nothing better than running into a room full of unopened gifts. I would find things an hour later that I hadn't seen yet

Hmmm...maybe unwrapped presents is a NC thing?

 

[StevieD]

As a kid Santa's was unwrapped but my wife found that to be unthinkable so with my kids we wrapped everything.

 

[hedgehog]

Unwrapped sitting out with stockings full on the couch, everything put together :0074

Love being Santa for my kids...

 

[ImFeklhr]

Mine were unwrapped. That was my first hunch when I was little, because my best friends' were wrapped. And we only lived 2 blocks away.
Why would Santa be so mercurial? :shrug:

Great memories.

 

[The Joker]

Growing up as a kid, Santa's presents were unwrapped and sitting in the living room when we ran down the stairs on Christmas morning. We all opened the wrapped presents on Christmas Eve. Nothing better than running into a room full of unopened gifts. I would find things an hour later that I hadn't seen yet

Same here. :0074

 

[gjn23]

Growing up as a kid, Santa's presents were unwrapped and sitting in the living room when we ran down the stairs on Christmas morning. We all opened the wrapped presents on Christmas Eve. Nothing better than running into a room full of unopened gifts. I would find things an hour later that I hadn't seen yet

exact same thing here and most i knew in chicago/midwest did the same thing

in az, about half did this

in ca, nobody has ever heard of it

 

[Morris]

Santa's gifts unwrapped and put together under the tree.

Nothing under the tree till Xmas morning.

Grandkids are allowed to open one gift on Xmas eve.

 

[GoldenTaint]

use some imagination. what kid wouldn't love to receive a gift "from Santa's pet vampire bat, Larry." that adds the missing element of fear that really rounds a holiday out for waxing urchins. it can't all be cookies and carols, people. somebody has to keep it real. as a gift provider, that's your job.

btw, all the Santa gifts i ever got were labeled in my mom's super-neat penmanship, and wrapped. never heard of this unwrapped tradition, and i grew up in the midwest

 

[Mr. Poon]

Nothing under the tree till Xmas morning.

Grandkids are allowed to open one gift on Xmas eve.

:mj03:

what the heck are they opening on xmas eve then? :shrug:

 

[DuckDogs]

From growing up the only unwrapped ones were items perhaps too large or awkward and they just got a bow or ribbon on them, like a Tonka Truck.

Gifts start slowly accumulating as they get wrapped and the gifts from Santa are put out x-mas eve after the little one is asleep.

X2

 

[Morris]

:mj03:

what the heck are they opening on xmas eve then? :shrug:

We set one aside for them to open.

 

[MadJack]

From growing up the only unwrapped ones were items perhaps too large or awkward and they just got a bow or ribbon on them, like a Tonka Truck.

Gifts start slowly accumulating as they get wrapped and the gifts from Santa are put out x-mas eve after the little one is asleep.

This has always been the way we do it too.