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HurricaneHeather
12-22-2009, 11:30 PM
A friend was saying on FB that presents from 'santa' aren't supposed to be wrapped. :scratch:
I don't get it. I never rememeber getting gifts from santa as a kid, there were just gifts. But ALL the gifts were ALWAYS wrapped.
I always thought unwrapping the gifts was 90% of the fun of Christmas morning. Am I missing something???
A friend was saying on FB that presents from 'santa' aren't supposed to be wrapped. :scratch:
Your friend is a bad parent
azoomm
12-22-2009, 11:50 PM
Your friend is a bad parent
Yup. Big FAIL on the parent status... much like my big sister. :(
Flexin
12-23-2009, 12:12 AM
A friend was saying on FB that presents from 'santa' aren't supposed to be wrapped. :scratch:
I don't get it. I never rememeber getting gifts from santa as a kid, there were just gifts. But ALL the gifts were ALWAYS wrapped.
I always thought unwrapping the gifts was 90% of the fun of Christmas morning. Am I missing something???
The gifts from Santa are always wrapped. We always had one big gift that was unwrapped. I believe that one was to get us to shut the hell up and give mom a bit more time to sleep. LOL.
James
lauralynne
12-23-2009, 12:34 AM
lazy parenting.
BobTheBiker
12-23-2009, 01:02 AM
Yup. almost ALL of the fun of christmas day for any kid, regardless of age is tearing that wrapping paper off their gifts.
anthonyk
12-23-2009, 04:37 AM
And a horrible excuse for a human, to boot. :)
Gotta wrap 'em all.
Fleck750
12-23-2009, 05:44 AM
The gifts from Santa are always wrapped. We always had one big gift that was unwrapped. I believe that one was to get us to shut the hell up and give mom a bit more time to sleep. LOL.
James
That's how my parents did it.
My toy presents from Santa weren't wrapped, they weren't even in a box anymore. Santa always took everything out and set everything up. Batteries were charged and in the stuff, nothing needed to messed with because Santa had it all ready for you. I thought it was awesome to come into the living room and find all your stuff ready to be played with immediately. If I got clothes or something else like that, they were wrapped.
Once my younger sister found out there was no Santa, the presents became wrapped and from the parents.
Particle Man
12-23-2009, 07:42 AM
The gifts from Santa are always wrapped. We always had one big gift that was unwrapped. I believe that one was to get us to shut the hell up and give mom a bit more time to sleep. LOL.
James
Same here while I was growing up and that's what we're doing for my little girl.
the chi
12-23-2009, 08:46 AM
So THATS whats wrong with Trip! :lol:
I dont have kids, but as a child my parents would wrap everything, and those from santa would say "from santa". Worked till I became a handwriting analyzer and figured out Daddy was Santa. :lol: We still played the game for my little sisters tho.
wildchild
12-23-2009, 09:07 AM
it makes sense in a weird kind of way that gifts from santa would not be wrapped.
however when i was a kid our's were wrapped and for my kids I santa always wrapped them.
pauldun170
12-23-2009, 09:31 AM
Your friends may be serial killers. If I were you I'd move to another state and change your name. not only are they wrong, they are are twisted, soulless people who just may be members of the Mexican drug cartel. If you come back with the info we have said, that Santa presents should be wrapped, they may take out their anger on you and your family.
Run as fast as you can.
Preferably topless,
cause its Christmas.
karl_1052
12-23-2009, 09:32 AM
Your friends may be serial killers. If I were you I'd move to another state and change your name. not only are they wrong, they are are twisted, soulless people who just may be members of the Mexican drug cartel. If you come back with the info we have said, that Santa presents should be wrapped, they may take out their anger on you and your family.
Run as fast as you can.
Preferably topless,
cause its Christmas.
I bet they are gingers too.:tremble:
marko138
12-23-2009, 09:34 AM
Santa never left me a present that wasn't wrapped.
http://johnnywestmusic.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/creepy-santa.jpg
Amorok
12-23-2009, 09:39 AM
We wrap all ou presents, the boy likes ripping into that paper almost as much as he does gettin the actual presents. The only thing you don't wrap is a bike, it just gets a bow on the handlebars.
defector
12-23-2009, 09:40 AM
My toy presents from Santa weren't wrapped, they weren't even in a box anymore. Santa always took everything out and set everything up. Batteries were charged and in the stuff, nothing needed to messed with because Santa had it all ready for you. I thought it was awesome to come into the living room and find all your stuff ready to be played with immediately. If I got clothes or something else like that, they were wrapped.
I open the packages and pre install any batteries in the stuff that needs it. I fully understand having them play with the stuff immediately, but in my mind they should get to unwrap everything.
Hell, one year my son got a cordless drill as a gift - The WTF look on his face was priceless. Then he figured out he had to use it to open the crate his pitbike was in.
Destitute
12-23-2009, 09:43 AM
If you're going to put the effort into something, do it right. Just like there are right ways and a wrong ways to beat your wife, there are right and wrong ways to lie to your children.
In this case, presents from "Santa" should be wrapped.
marko138
12-23-2009, 09:44 AM
If you're going to put the effort into something, do it right. Just like there are right ways and a wrong ways to beat your wife, there are right and wrong ways to lie to your children.
In this case, presents from "Santa" should be wrapped.
Perfect.
pauldun170
12-23-2009, 09:45 AM
If you're going to put the effort into something, do it right. Just like there are right ways and a wrong ways to beat your wife, there are right and wrong ways to lie to your children.
In this case, presents from "Santa" should be wrapped.
You should write a coffe table book.
At least sell a t-shirt with that on it.
wildchild
12-23-2009, 09:54 AM
Hell, one year my son got a cordless drill as a gift - The WTF look on his face was priceless. Then he figured out he had to use it to open the crate his pitbike was in.
that is awesome.
would love to have seen his face for that.
Particle Man
12-23-2009, 10:01 AM
Your friends may be serial killers. If I were you I'd move to another state and change your name. not only are they wrong, they are are twisted, soulless people who just may be members of the Mexican drug cartel. If you come back with the info we have said, that Santa presents should be wrapped, they may take out their anger on you and your family.
Run as fast as you can.
Preferably topless,
cause its Christmas.
I bet they are gingers too.:tremble:
hahahaha :lmao:
skiergirl
12-23-2009, 10:10 AM
Wrap them! normally I would have added your friends are idiot but after hearing some of the reasoning I guess I can understand a little bit why they might think that.
I completely disagree though. Wrap everything! Heck my dad would sometimes take something small and wrap in in a box, then take like 5-6 other larger boxes and wrap each of them so it took like 10 minutes to get it open. It was some of the best fun from childhood - everyone sitting around with you as you tear open gifts.
HurricaneHeather
12-23-2009, 10:14 AM
Okay first off... :lmao: at the bad parenting comments. Really folks? :rofl:
There were 10 other women who posted a comment on her status and 7 of them said unwrapped. :shrug: So I posted last night asking anyone of these women to explain to me why they would be unwrapped (using the same reasons I gave y'all) and no one has responded. They don't know is what I am guessing. :lol:
Granted, these are all Missouri people and they are beyond backward, so that could be it.
Particle Man
12-23-2009, 10:16 AM
Granted, these are all Missouri people Why didn't you say that to begin with? :lol: That explains everything!
HurricaneHeather
12-23-2009, 10:16 AM
Your friends may be serial killers. If I were you I'd move to another state and change your name. not only are they wrong, they are are twisted, soulless people who just may be members of the Mexican drug cartel. If you come back with the info we have said, that Santa presents should be wrapped, they may take out their anger on you and your family.
Run as fast as you can.
Preferably topless,
cause its Christmas.
Thank you for summarizing the other posts perfectly. :dthumb:
But I will be leaving my top on today. I hate Christmas. :wink:
marko138
12-23-2009, 10:21 AM
Worst parents EVAR.
http://bp3.blogger.com/_mmBw3uzPnJI/R3QPu-qaBlI/AAAAAAAAKx8/GEpRAOjo694/s400/worst_parents_005.jpg
HurricaneHeather
12-23-2009, 10:24 AM
Worst parents EVAR.
http://bp3.blogger.com/_mmBw3uzPnJI/R3QPu-qaBlI/AAAAAAAAKx8/GEpRAOjo694/s400/worst_parents_005.jpg
:lmao:
Maybe I'm just tired, but I'm crying I am laughing so hard at that.
marko138
12-23-2009, 10:26 AM
:lmao:
Maybe I'm just tired, but I'm crying I am laughing so hard at that.
I'll be here all day.
http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/weather/hurricane/blog/bowing.jpg
I will continue with my parents tradition of unwrapped/assembled.
However, if you are just putting them out there unwrapped and still in the box, that's just lazy. In the case of some toys, unboxing/assembling is harder than wrapping the damn things.
Amorok
12-23-2009, 10:43 AM
Worst parents EVAR.
http://bp3.blogger.com/_mmBw3uzPnJI/R3QPu-qaBlI/AAAAAAAAKx8/GEpRAOjo694/s400/worst_parents_005.jpg
It's creepy how much that looks like Trip.
It's creepy how much that looks like Trip.
You weren't on the old TWF, but this place almost didn't get made because I almost got a permanent vacation from the original TWF for posting a picture of an oven cooked baby that was made to look like it was a thanksgiving/christmas turkey.
Amorok
12-23-2009, 10:50 AM
You weren't on the old TWF, but this place almost didn't get made because I almost got a permanent vacation from the original TWF for posting a picture of an oven cooked baby that was made to look like it was a thanksgiving/christmas turkey.
Nope, missed out on that. I will tell you though that this picture is saved, and if your number is ever in my phone as a contact and you call me, this is the picture that will pop up. It's that awesome.
Flexin
12-23-2009, 11:12 AM
unwrapping then is a huge part of the fun. Someone will sit close to the tree and hand them out to everyone. We would take our time opening them. I liked watching my family open them so I would open some then watch everyone then open some more. When I was only about 4 or so mom said I had to eat before anything. She said I couldn't care less about the tree and gifts till I ate. She said I took my time eatting to. We still get the gifts with just our names on them. Those are the Santa gifts.
James
Tmall
12-23-2009, 12:39 PM
My toy presents from Santa weren't wrapped, they weren't even in a box anymore. Santa always took everything out and set everything up. Batteries were charged and in the stuff, nothing needed to messed with because Santa had it all ready for you. I thought it was awesome to come into the living room and find all your stuff ready to be played with immediately. If I got clothes or something else like that, they were wrapped.
Once my younger sister found out there was no Santa, the presents became wrapped and from the parents.
Same, for the most part. They weren't set up, but they were unwrapped and on a chair or something in front of the tree waiting for me.
It was to differentiate santa from mom and dad..
MissHell
12-23-2009, 01:42 PM
My toy presents from Santa weren't wrapped, they weren't even in a box anymore. Santa always took everything out and set everything up. Batteries were charged and in the stuff, nothing needed to messed with because Santa had it all ready for you. I thought it was awesome to come into the living room and find all your stuff ready to be played with immediately. If I got clothes or something else like that, they were wrapped.
I guess we are the only ones. :idk: Santa always left our gifts out, fully assembled, ready to play with.
All the gifts from the parents were wrapped, so there were plenty to un-wrap.
I guess we are the only ones. :idk: Santa always left our gifts out, fully assembled, ready to play with.
All the gifts from the parents were wrapped, so there were plenty to un-wrap.
Yeah, plus I was really young when I found out about the lie that is Santa, so everything was pretty much just a show for my sister and she didn't last that long after I found out. So, our presents became wrapped and all from Mom and Dad pretty quick.
CasterTroy
12-23-2009, 03:07 PM
I guess we are the only ones. :idk: Santa always left our gifts out, fully assembled, ready to play with.
All the gifts from the parents were wrapped, so there were plenty to un-wrap.
Nope, I'm right there with you
How the feck are you gonna wrap a bicycle? A wagon? An Atari? (DAMN I'm old)
My "santa" gifts were always out, charged, ready to play with the second I woke up.
1/2 the presents were from mom, the other half "Santa"
Once I admitted I didn't believe (I knew when I was little, but knew the booty would diminish once I admitted it) everything was wrapped.
Once my youngest admits it, all three kids will get everything wrapped, but as it stands, they each get a few things from “santa”…open and ready to go under the tree
EpyonXero
12-23-2009, 03:42 PM
When I was a kid everything was wrapped and there were no "Santa" gifts or "parents" gifts. Im pretty sure they were all supposed to be from Santa. The only things that werent wrapped were things like bikes or "big" gifts which were usually hidden somewhere and I had to find them.
HurricaneHeather
12-23-2009, 03:51 PM
When I was a kid everything was wrapped and there were no "Santa" gifts or "parents" gifts. Im pretty sure they were all supposed to be from Santa. The only things that werent wrapped were things like bikes or "big" gifts which were usually hidden somewhere and I had to find them.
I never remember gifts from Santa except one year when my dad did the wrapping...I specifically remember getting a present from Kevin Klein. I think my dad got bored with the wrapping. :lol:
Yeah and the big gifts of course weren't wrapped.
I guess why I was so confused was this lady was having an argument about it with her husband(her son is just getting to the age where he understands xmas) and all the women against wrapping were so adament about it like it was ridiculous to even think that 'santa' gifts were wrapped.
Whatever...midwestern women. :shrug:
TYEster
12-23-2009, 07:10 PM
Ya I used to get some "big" presents that went unwrapped from "santa".
It was awesome in my later years because my sister was still little, I'd sneak out after my parents went to bed and see what I got right away, haha. Once a ninja, always a ninja.
I liked getting stuff unwrapped and in my stocking cause that was shit we got right away while my parents got up, we could be busy with that while they made breakfast or something.
Rangerscott
12-23-2009, 07:17 PM
My toy presents from Santa weren't wrapped, they weren't even in a box anymore. Santa always took everything out and set everything up. Batteries were charged and in the stuff, nothing needed to messed with because Santa had it all ready for you. I thought it was awesome to come into the living room and find all your stuff ready to be played with immediately. If I got clothes or something else like that, they were wrapped.
Once my younger sister found out there was no Santa, the presents became wrapped and from the parents.
Yup. Thats how you do it. Plus, who the hell wraps a bicycle?
Smittie61984
12-23-2009, 08:47 PM
I will continue with my parents tradition of unwrapped/assembled.
However, if you are just putting them out there unwrapped and still in the box, that's just lazy. In the case of some toys, unboxing/assembling is harder than wrapping the damn things.
I'd be oh so thrilled to have a 10speed all unassembled from Santa.
When the presents went from Santa to Parents those were wrapped.
Captain Morgan
12-23-2009, 09:23 PM
When I was a kid, Santa always left the gifts unwrapped and under the tree. My parents wrapped the gifts from them.
My ex was the first person I ever talked to that had gifts from Santa wrapped up. Just different schools of thought.
marko138
12-23-2009, 09:36 PM
Yup. Thats how you do it. Plus, who the hell wraps a bicycle?
A good parent, thats who.
was92v
12-23-2009, 10:00 PM
As a kid the "Really Special" stuff came from Santa and they were never wrapped. Setup and ready to rock! It also gave the parents time to wake up, make coffee etc while we played with the Santa presents.
Later, when I had little ones of my own, I realized how important that step was, since I er I mean Santa had been up until 4 fucking AM trying put all that stuff together and make sure everything worked the way it was supposed to. And then was up again at 5:30 for the BIG SURPRISE! Hell, the surprise was that I was conscious. By the time it came to opening presents from mere mortals the adults were awake enough to enjoy the fun.
Rangerscott
12-23-2009, 10:37 PM
I can't believe "parenting" has been thrown into this thread. Jeeez.
marko138
12-24-2009, 09:13 AM
I can't believe "parenting" has been thrown into this thread. Jeeez.
Believe it, guy. Parents who dont wrap gifts from Santa are horrible parents. Bottom line. They should have their kids taken from them.
CasterTroy
12-26-2009, 10:24 AM
Believe it, guy. Parents who dont wrap gifts from Santa are horrible parents. Bottom line. They should have their kids taken from them.
At least they didn't raise kids that bought Buells :nee:
azoomm
12-27-2009, 12:18 AM
OK, you people don't get it - our gifts were ready to go, just wrapped.
No, bicycles aren't wrapped. That's ridiculous. Who the hell wraps a bicycle? That's like robbing someone of the ginormous red bow on the new car they get.
Opening the gift is most of the fun.
Trying to remove Barbie from the torture chamber is a horrible thing to subject a child to...
And, no batteries is worse than water-boarding.
Amber Lamps
12-27-2009, 03:39 AM
My toy presents from Santa weren't wrapped, they weren't even in a box anymore. Santa always took everything out and set everything up. Batteries were charged and in the stuff, nothing needed to messed with because Santa had it all ready for you. I thought it was awesome to come into the living room and find all your stuff ready to be played with immediately. If I got clothes or something else like that, they were wrapped.
Once my younger sister found out there was no Santa, the presents became wrapped and from the parents.
Absolutely right! The presents from "Santa" are supposed to be ready to go. When I bought my ex's little girl a Buttercup pony for Christmas, I had it all set up and ready to ride for her when she woke up! Santa traditionally brought one gift and/or put knick knacks in stockings, All this greedy multiple gift crap is a result of our American avarice polluting what was once a much simpler holiday.
Fleck750
12-27-2009, 08:34 AM
Trying to remove Barbie from the torture chamber is a horrible thing to subject a child to...
Gee, Barbie only had houses, cars and cool clothes when I was a kid.
Now she's turned goth and gets her own torture chamber? :D
I wanna be a kid again. :p
marko138
12-27-2009, 10:48 AM
At least they didn't raise kids that bought Buells :nee:
Never claimed I was raised right. :lol:
Tmall
12-27-2009, 02:39 PM
I agree with tigger on that. When I was little, Santa brought one gift. It could have been a set, like the 5 voltron lions. Or a Nintendo and games. But, it was never multiple seperate gifts.
Rangerscott
12-27-2009, 02:52 PM
Believe it, guy. Parents who dont wrap gifts from Santa are horrible parents. Bottom line. They should have their kids taken from them.
Shit. We'd wake up hearing our parents playing with our presents. :lol
Amber Lamps
12-27-2009, 03:18 PM
Shit. We'd wake up hearing our parents playing with our presents. :lol
Yea, who the fuck wants to put together a Tyco train set at 5am with an impatient 5 year old waiting to play with it? None of you have even seen the Christmas morning scenario with the train running around the tree, a doll for Suzie sitting in one of the cars and a baseball mitt for Bobby in another?
Flexin
12-27-2009, 09:04 PM
Santa just needs to drop the gifts off. My kids know that daddy will set it up for them. I enjoy getting the shit out of the box for them. Thats my thing. Santa wrapped up all of the kids gifts this year. It takes me no time to get a toy out and ready to go for my kids. Some of them take longer but most are done quick.
James
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