Christmas present traditions

[ghoti_mhic_uait]

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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[juliet]

Father Christmas delivered both stockings and under-the-tree presents, but the presents (definitely under-the-tree ones, not sure about stockings) were *from* my parents, but *delivered* (and possibly sourced?) by Father Christmas.

My parents got up to open stockings with us which I gather is totally counter to many people's thoughts about the purpose of stockings, but I wouldn't like to miss L opening his stocking presents myself :)