Working Moms...when do you wrap gifts?

I cannot wrap gifts at like midnight as I am a diva and need my sleep. I have a five year old and an 8 year old and I feel like they are always under my feet making it hard.

Tips?

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i would ask someone to take them out for a bit. maybe dad can take them out to lunch, while you wrap.

i used to wrap gifts as soon as DS fell asleep.

Working Moms...when do you wrap gifts?

Is there maybe a time your dh or another family member could take them out for a little while to give you some time at home alone to wrap gifts?

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i've done it on a weekend when i know he's watching a movie. I tell him i'm wrapping other peoples gifts so he doesn't pay much attention.
But mostly i do it after he's gone to bed

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Sadly the night before the holiday (I.e. I wrapped hanukkah the night before it started and we'll prob wrap xmas the night or two before xmas eve..) As a working mom everything happens at the last possible minute :(

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I will work from home one day that she is in school and do it then.
Or on Xmas Eve sadly - after she goes to bed

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I usually send them off to grandma's for a long afternoon so we can wrap and get organized.

Working Moms...when do you wrap gifts?

My kids are upstairs and in bed by 8, so I wrap a bunch of gifts each night for the week leading up to Christmas. I can’t imagine I’d do it any other time even if I wasn’t working.

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In my family, santa didn't wrap gifts. My mother worked 12 hours a day and had 4 of us and a husband who was a true Italian man who did nothing lol

Everyone else I know who works, does it Christmas eve

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I always do it Christmas Eve. I like my sleep too, but it's only one night. And, I stuff my face on the cookies that we make for Santa. This year, we're leaving him a gingerbread house and I can't wait.

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Working Moms...when do you wrap gifts?

DH takes them to work and wraps there. Honestly I can't be bothered and I run a business from home and am extremely busy this time of year in addition to my FT job. Family hardly sees me for the month of Dec.

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Ugh, just this side of never. I'm great at shopping! The wrapping not so much. Last year I was so on the ball, I was in bed on Christmas Eve at 10:00 PM and that was mostly artfully arranging the gifts after DD went to bed.

I actually had a dream last night that nobody wrapped any gifts and we just handed each other a bunch of Amazon boxes and let them open that. And it made me SO sad. So I *say* I'm going to start tonight but who knows.

And I feel you, I NEED to sleep. I'm in bed so early since I wake up at 5:00 AM. Though I have major pregnancy insomnia. You'd think I'd wrap gifts at 2:00 AM but no, I just lay in bed and stare at the ceiling.

ETA: My DH is "bad" at wrapping. So he wraps nothing but my gifts. And I will admit they look awful. I swear he does it on purpose to get out of doing it.

Message edited 12/11/2018 3:03:24 PM.

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I wrap them when I'm working from home or after the kids go to bed. There were a couple I had to wrap when they were home, so I told them I was going to wrap Chanukah gifts in the other room and if they came in, they weren't getting any of the gifts. They stayed out easily.

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Wrap for 30 min a night when kids are in bed.If you start doing it nightly now you'll be in good shape. I put on one of my housewives or whatever shows I DVR and wrap. When the show is over I put everything away and go to bed.

Working Moms...when do you wrap gifts?

I'm hoping to call out sick next Thursday to wrap gifts and attend my DD's school Holiday Party. If that doesn't work out then I will wrap after they go to bed starting the end of next week.

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My problem with wrapping when she is in bed is that my daughter has this bad habit of waking up a few hours after she falls asleep, not being able to fall back to sleep and coming out of her room to look for me. I tend to stay up late on the weekends especially so a lot of times she will find me on the couch watching TV.
It doesn't happen every night and it can go for weeks without it happening, but then BAM it happens.

So I have this fear of her walking out of her room to find me spread out on the living room floor wrapping..
Our house is very open floor plan so the only rooms with doors are the bedrooms and my DH goes to bed early so I can't wrap in there- plus there isn't a ton of room in my bedroom the way the furniture is laid out.

So I have to sneak it when she's in school

Definitely annoying.

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I have been sending everything to my Dad's house and went last Friday after work to do all my wrapping. Told kids I was working late.

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I do it at night but we celebrate Christmas Eve so Santa Comes early.

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Never. After years of this dilemma Santa only brings XL personalized canvas sacks with unwrapped toys in it. Saves time, $, and clean up time. For some toys it makes sense to take them out of the package to make room in the sack. Why would Santa put all of those adultproof twisty ties in toy packages anyways? Lol

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I hear ya! This time of year is exhausting.
I just suck it up and do it when they are sleeping.

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