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I have finished all the wrapping I can do for now. That's not all the wrapping I need to do - just the wrapping which requires tape. I ran out just as I was getting to the last of the can't-bag-this gifts.

Or, almost the last. I'm not sure where Piet stored the two gifts for my sisters. They're somewhere in the basement, but it's easier to wait until he can tell me where than it would be to search. I also haven't touched anything he bought for people in his family. Piet's not that good at wrapping things, so he usually takes them to a booth in the mall to have them wrapped properly. This has the added advantage of mixing up the wrapping paper under the tree. We have a surfeit of snowmen under there at the moment, one big roll being cheaper and nicer than several smaller ones.

Question: How many of you with kids wrap gifts that they receive from Santa? If you have no kids, did you always get things from Santa wrapped? My family had it that nothing from Santa ever got wrapped, mostly because there were four of us and my parents were chronically broke. But Piet's family always wraps everything, in an effort to draw things out during the lean years, and I'm wondering now how to handle this. Do we wrap Elizabeth's Santa stuff? How old will she be when she realizes that Santa wraps things at Oma's house, but not at Mommy's or Grandma's? I remember comparing notes with my friends, and wondering, but I don't remember how old I was.

I'm off to write more about pirates. This book is so much fun. :)

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Date: 2004-12-21 07:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jadecat.livejournal.com
We always had all our presents wrapped. I'll have to ask my mom if there was ever a reason for it- other than 'that's what you do with presents, wrap them.'

As for her wondering why about wrapped vs. not- just tell her Santa likes to do things differently sometimes- some places get wrapped, some pleaces get unwrapped.

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Date: 2004-12-21 08:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] anidada.livejournal.com
They were always wrapped in our house. Usually in the same paper. One year everything was also labelled "from Santa" and I was upset because my parents hadn't gotten me anything. ;D Needless to say, that mistake didn't recur the following year. I never twigged to the same-paper issue, but I suppose a good excuse would be that because Santa knows everything, he knows what paper to use, too.

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Date: 2004-12-21 08:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sassy-fae.livejournal.com
Santa stuff was only ever at our house, and it was always wrapped. They had the presents stored at another house and someone else write the tags too, which added to the mystery! (Mom did the parent presents in her own handwriting, so they were noticeably different)
I think it's nicer to know the presents from other family members are from them and just have parents be Santa, but I never knew it any other way :) Once my sister and I were too old for Santa, the presents tradition died out a bit, to the point that there was one Christmas with no presents, as money was needed for more important things. I think that's the reason I always get my sister too many things for Christmas. I'd had a little money saved that year and bought her some little things, and it seemed to make her day. She actually complains a little now that I have a good job, saying she can't compete! I don't want her to compete, I just want to see her face when she gets the thing she's been secretly eyeing (or didn't even know about), and to have a good holiday. I get so mushy at this time of year! Squee!

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Date: 2004-12-21 09:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] georgiaskydiver.livejournal.com
I guess I'm the only one who didn't have things from Santa wrapped. They always showed up under the tree unwrapped. Occasionally there'd be something wrapped with a label on it, but that was the exception. Perhaps that's because I was an only child? Maybe if there were more of us they would have had to have been wrapped to avoid squabbles over who got what.

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