Wrapped, except for big stuff (the abovementioned bikes and dollhouses) that doesn’t lend itself to wrapping and looks awesome next to the tree.
Egg-zackly. Everything wrapped!
Heheh, this reminds me of wrapping a present for my younger sister back in high school. She really wanted a metronome, so I got her one. The box itself was about the size of a deck of cards. I wrapped, taped, and generally encased it in a series of increasingly-bigger boxes, the last one of which was over 3 feet wide. Totally worth it!
Last year my husband wrapped up a piece of jewelry for me in a large box… with about ten pounds of lead shot. Totally confused me before I unwrapped it!
Packing this off to IMHO, from MPSIMS.
The only Christmas I remember from my early childhood was one where my aunt and uncle took me out for a walk to see if we could find Santa on Christmas Eve. We walked around in the cold for about a half hour, looking up into the clear, starry sky. Some one, probably my grandfather, rang some jingle bells back at the house. We ran back home to find that we’d missed Santa’s visit. The sad, lonely tree suddenly had, what seemed like, thousands of presents, both wrapped and unwrapped. It was my best Christmas ever.
Sorry, that didn’t answer the question, but you can have a “Santa moment” even on Christmas Eve.
Being a long time greenie, I’ve used various re-used items for wrapping through the years. My favorite items are Sunday color comics or older maps of all sorts.
In her household, the majority of presents are toys or things that the kids would want to play with? Interesting. Usually we had a couple toys and a lot of clothes and other stuff. Part of the fun is guessing which is which before you can hold them.
Even if you only see it right before you get to use it, unwrapped presents ruin the surprise. And if you’re worried about waste, just recycle.
Wrap, definitely. Some presents from Santa aren’t wrapped, depending on their wrappability, but otherwise they’re all wrapped.
This sounds like a rationalization to me.
Apropos of nothing, you know what else sucks? People who apparently have lots of their shopping out of the way before I even start. 
Meant to include this part in the quote above.
Wrap, sometimes wrap trickily. Big stuff that is too big to wrap you can hide someplace else and wrap a picture of.
We have a ton of boxes from packing up our entire house for our new floors, and we plan on using them to put every present in - so the presents will all look the same around the tree.
“My work here is done…” tips hat and rides off into sunset
Indeed, it may all stem from the unfortunate Christmas present related incident which happened to her approx ten years ago. Her family had all their Christmas presents in their car which was parked outside the chapel while they attended midnight mass on Christmas Eve. It was a very stormy night and the wind brought a large tree down outside the chapel…right onto their car, and onto their presents…
I kid you not…I have to ask her if the ‘no wrapping’ thing started after this incident or before… 
Everything wrapped, including the stocking stuffers. It’s no fun otherwise.
How does she keep the kids from playing with them before it’s time? This makes no sense. Part of the fun is the sight of the wrapped gifts under the tree. Scoping them out, trying to guess.
I would say it’s not a big deal to not wrap, but evidently I am the only one who unwrapped presents to see what they were. Just slit the tape with a razor blade and then cut a new piece the same size to tape over it and it’s practically undetectable.
I don’t really like surprises.
i could save a little money with the no wrap.and the kids can use there creativity by picking any color of wrap or the biggest ribon then all they have to do is open there eyes and poof unwraped , no aunt jean saveing all the pretty paper, and the clean up. what clean up
[rchandsaker;14484481]i could save a little money with the no wrap.and the kids can use there creativity by picking any color of wrap or the biggest ribon then all they have to do is open there eyes and poof unwraped , no aunt jean saveing all the pretty paper, and the clean up. what clean up?
Wrap. Heck, even Santa presents sometimes get wrapped and then tucked into stockings! Big things get placed out after little ones are in bed asleep.
The devious stuff is fun, dad once found a place that put presents into cans about coffee tin sized, then they were sealed. The only way to open them were with can openers!
If I have to wrap something myself, fuck it - it’s going in a gift bag with a tag. Maybe some tissue paper jammed on top to disguise it. But wrapping is a clusterfuck and I hate it.
Last year I discovered the joy that is getting the lovely lasses at the mall to gift-wrap things for me. From now on, that will be the way I go.
Everything gets wrapped, even if it’s wrapped in clear cellophane to be delivered Xmas morning.
I’ve wrapped freaking pot plants!
My parents wrapped a fish bowl, with the fish in it!!
The pressies start building under the tree from Dec 1st when we put the tree up. All the pressies we are giving other people. Around Dec 20th, the occasional pressie will show up for me or the kid.
She’s the devious one when it comes to wrapping - she likes making me wait and guess.
Then, Xmas eve, after she’s gone to bed, a bunch of pressies will show up for the kid to find on Christmas morning.
Aww, I’m getting all no-elly.