Gifts on Christmas morning- fun thread

[Anonymous]

Own pile and Santa doesn’t wrap gifts

[Anonymous]

No person-specific piles, just arranged all around and under the tree. I like to go for a visually pleasing display— really that’s my favorite part of Christmas— seeing the wrapped gifts under the tree. But my mom is always complaining about not having access to the tree light plug, the cat can’t get to the window, etc, and she rearranges. It’s a passive aggressive battle from Christmas Eve.
I like to sort of coordinate my wrappings— like one year I do earthy stuff and another year I do glitzy. But for the least few years I’ve been trying to use up what I have, so no buying new. When the kids were little I devoted one specific paper to Santa gifts.

[Anonymous]

A big stash plus some unwrapped Santa presents for kids. After breakfast, you find your presents, and arrange a pile where you're.

My MIL for a few years labelled all the presents with themed names based on your interests, so a person who liked to cook might get all TV chefs and a person who liked mysteries might get literary detectives. It was kind of a fun idea, but I imagine it was a lot of work for her.

[Anonymous]

I don't organize the gifts, but DCs typically sort them into piles. I don't coordinate paper. Everyone takes turns opening the gifts and once they're finished, we move into the stockings

[Anonymous]

Back when we were younger and had close neighbors and work friends, there were always a few "generic" gifts like candy or food or something wrapped differently so we could whip one out if someone dropped by with a gift.

[Anonymous]

I’d love if you could try to be a little more inclusive and write “holiday” instead? Not everyone is a christian you know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Filled stockings go to the foot of the bed in the night like magic.

Gifts are heaped up under the tree haphazardly, with a mix of wrapped presents (I wrap early then do all the bows last) and gift bags. Biggest ones deep under or to the side of course.

Everything is from Santa. I'm not one of those vain parents who needs my kids to think I bought them something. They no longer believe in Santa but it's still from Santa.

Almost the same except for stockings. Those go by the fireplace.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No person-specific piles, just arranged all around and under the tree. I like to go for a visually pleasing display— really that’s my favorite part of Christmas— seeing the wrapped gifts under the tree. But my mom is always complaining about not having access to the tree light plug, the cat can’t get to the window, etc, and she rearranges. It’s a passive aggressive battle from Christmas Eve.
I like to sort of coordinate my wrappings— like one year I do earthy stuff and another year I do glitzy. But for the least few years I’ve been trying to use up what I have, so no buying new. When the kids were little I devoted one specific paper to Santa gifts.

I used to do the Santa paper and I don't think the kids ever noticed. I also used specific gift tags from Santa but again, they never noticed.

[Anonymous]

2 kids. I did not wrap. Kids stocking were on the mantle (left or right side) and Santa left the gifts directly below.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’d love if you could try to be a little more inclusive and write “holiday” instead? Not everyone is a christian you know.

Bless your heart. But DH's Chanukah gifts are most often not a thing for Christmas morning. Some years there's overlap but I don't think OP was asking about more than that one day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ Santa does not have time to arrange it perfectly. Remember how many homes he has to get to and factor in eating cookies/milk. There's no time for separate piles. If you were good this year, don't worry you'll get something from Santa.

Santa is a woman and a mother. She can get all of it done.

No. Santa and his reindeers are busy working x-mas eve so mom can sleep after a glass of wine or eggnog or both

[Anonymous]

Gifts under the tree are mixed; I use a few different wrapping papers but generally the kids ones might be more kids-y patterns and the adult ones more mature (boring). We're not scientific and not organized in their placement under the tree. A big part of my "job" as a kid was reading the gift tags and passing gifts out to the adults, so I guess I've passed that duty on to my kids. Stockings are filled and usually set on the ground if too heavy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gifts under the tree are mixed; I use a few different wrapping papers but generally the kids ones might be more kids-y patterns and the adult ones more mature (boring). We're not scientific and not organized in their placement under the tree. A big part of my "job" as a kid was reading the gift tags and passing gifts out to the adults, so I guess I've passed that duty on to my kids. Stockings are filled and usually set on the ground if too heavy.

Oh and Santa gifts are in different (Santa) paper from the others.

[Anonymous]

Everything mixed under the tree. Stockings spread out around the room (no fireplace in our home). No special wrapping. One of the men is usually tasked with handing out gifts. We’re really not a gendered household so I don’t know why the job falls with the men, but maybe it’s because my dad is pretty aspie and not as good about the pleasantries of Xmas so at some point as kids we were like here you have this job that will occupy you. And as he’s gotten older and less mobile, my husband started taking over, and now that my son (the only kid in the group) is older we’ve sort of tasked him with it to keep him busy while the adults talk. So the men hand out presents. Many decades ago, someone gave us a really nice Santa hat - so the gift organizer wears that.

[Anonymous]

I give each person their own paper and arrange under the tree individually.

One thing I do while wrapping is put a number in the corner of each tag. I correspond it with a running list I have. That way I can see what each present is before they open it. I try to save the “good presents” until the end, and this helps me keep track of it all.