wakegrrl
Hurricane Goddess
People who don't wrap Santa gifts are communists. Fact.
Thanks for sharing, Comrade.
People who don't wrap Santa gifts are communists. Fact.
+1. I am floored. Some people have really, really shitty parents. i mean, how lazy/cheap is it to not buy separate wrapping paper for Santa?
I don't think I would have gotten to keep any presents if it was ever discovered I snuck down to the tree. So I definitely never did that.
Christmas morning we'd all wake up (upstairs), and gather together as a family and read the story of the Birth of Jesus in the Bible aloud, each taking turns. Then we'd walk downstairs to the tree in age order, parents first. We'd open stockings first, then have a quick nibble of breakfast like a danish then open presents in an orderly fashion. My sister liked to be the distributor of gifts as she could give out more to other people and have a stockpile for herself. One gift opened at a time. Sometimes it would take hours. That was awesome.
Um, you're kidding, right? It had nothing to do with laziness or cheapness and my parents were decidedly not shitty. It's a tradition on both sides of my family that Santa gifts were unwrapped so you could get the excited expression when the kid(s) come downstairs and see what Santa left them.
Lighten up.
People who don't wrap Santa gifts are communists. Fact.
absolutely not. that should be borderline child abuse. kids like opening presents. do you bother to take them out of the walmart bag before placing them under the tree?
wow, this sounds like the exact opposite of awesome. it is exactly how i picture christmas in the Randy Edsall household.
how does that even work for multiple kids?
how does that even work for multiple kids?
But it made Christmas last! I can't imagine the letdown if everyone ripped into their pile of presents all at once; it would take maybe 10 minutes to open them and then Christmas would be over, just like that.
did you and your siblings have the exact same toy preferences?
granted, i was the only girl, so mine was always pretty easy to figure out. and my brothers were over 6 years apart in age, so they never asked for similar stuff. but it was pretty straightforward in our family.
It wasn't over "just like that." Now you have bawse things to play with, your family is there, you hang out and have a good time. Parents get their drink on. All around, all day fun.
I was an unwrapped family and will probably continue that.
Also, one of the best things my parents did to keep me believing in Santa was to give repeat gifts. I opened a present from them for something Santa already got me and they claimed they didn't know Santa would get it for me. That definitely kept me thinking.