Christmas present traditions

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Elsenet, some (mostly American) friends and I were discussing when to wrap presents and put them under the tree. I have started wrapping but due to life getting in the way, the tree isn't up yet.Anyway, this lead to the question of whether Santa presents under the tree get wrapped, and i was all 'What? Santa doesn't put presents under the tree, the point of Santa is that he leaves things for the children to do before the parents wake up!' Er, I mean, to show that sometimes the joy in the Incarnation is so great that it overflows in the form of chocolate and books and stuff given to strangers. But also the 'don't wake the parents!' thing.

I think it's probably that that's a thing that happens in the US, and here we do more just stockings? I remember that as being how it worked when I asked around on reading Little House in the Big Woods (where all the presents were Santa presents) but that's a while ago.

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[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I had a stocking for a long time, a rugby sock containing a couple of oranges, some chocolate, and a selection of small secret-santa type presents, little puzzles or games and things.

Presents from people were under the tree. Sometimes there were some extra presents from santa, not the "big" present, but something interesting and more specific than the stocking presents. I can't remember if those were by the stocking, or under the tree, or if it varied.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Stockings were for immediately you woke up, everything else as soon as everyone was up. (Or after breakfast, sometimes.)