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Where to Hide Christmas Presents from Your Sneaky Kids and Spouse
Posted by: jenniferj 11-Dec-07 02:37 PM Updated: 12/22/2007 12:58:08 PM

Where to Hide Christmas Presents from Your Sneaky Kids and Spouse

Being Santa every year can be quite challenging. Especially if you have kids or a spouse who like to snoop around the house looking for hidden presents. Finding presents can spoil a Christmas especially if your kids believe in Santa! >
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Posted by: airish27 12-Dec-07 09:05 AM

Very well put, I have used every single one of these methods. I also like to hide the presents under my shoes. A man will not look around his wifes shoes.

Posted by: bekilyn 12-Dec-07 10:18 AM

I hide presents behind the door, leading up and out the cellar doors. Since we only use the cellar doors to get outside in the warmer weather, the cellar door is shut for the winter. Nobody has found this spot in over 7 years.
Happy Hiding :o)

Posted by: jodeegu 12-Dec-07 10:43 AM

My favorite hiding place is in the garage. We keep our decorations in tubs and boxes on shelves above our cars. When we put the decorations up, I have my husband leave the containers at ground level, then as I fill them with wrapped presents, he or I put them back up on the shelves where they belong. I suspect that my younger kids don't even notice and my older ones don't ask why half of the boxes haven't been put away for fear that they'll have to finish putting them up. My second favorite, and the place where I hide heavy or big presents (like a bike), is in our travel trailer. Since we don't use it in the winter, it is closed and locked, just like it's supposed to be. A quick sweep of these 2 places and I know that I have all the presents. And, because I am totally neurotic, I keep a list with a description of each gift as I wrap it and I check it off when I bring them in to put under the tree. My mom was notorious for what we called "Christmas in February": that was when she would finally find the forgotten gifts and I don't want to carry on THAT famiy tradition!

Posted by: stirrell 12-Dec-07 11:18 AM

My parents used to hide things in an unused bureau in the basement - they even went so far as to drape an old blanket over it. We never found any presents, despite hours of searching!

Posted by: morghan 12-Dec-07 01:50 PM

my husband has always been a sneaky gift finder. so i lie to him and tell them that they are stashed at a friends house so he cant find them but they r really just sitting on my side of the closet. he doesnt bother looking and he thinks the presents in the closet are for family so easily dooped lol. to keep my son out of his gifts this year i wrapped them up and put them in the garage. hes too young to open the door so he doesnt know the difference.

Posted by: Budnot 12-Dec-07 02:01 PM

One year my brother made the ugliest decoration for next to the fireplace - acted very proud of it tho...it was a huge candle. On Christmas morning he handed it to his wife and told her it was her gift - inside was a rifle. She never thought of looking there! So I suggest ugly, child-like decorations for hiding things right out in the open!

Posted by: davidballfan 12-Dec-07 02:36 PM

My husband and I have a storage unit. We go from the store, directly to the storage unit and drop the gifts there. Because we live in a warmer climate, we'll grab lunch and wrap the gifts on a folding table we keep there. Then, we pick up the gifts on Christmas Eve. Not only do we have a great place to hide the gifts, but we get a nice lunch date out of it, too.

Posted by: cccindy3 12-Dec-07 05:01 PM

I've never done this myself, but I think it might work. Put the gift in a different box. (i.e. if it's a pair of slippers put it in a box for hand-held vac.)

Posted by: outnumbered 12-Dec-07 05:33 PM

Me and my sister shop together. We celebrate Christmas eve together. We bring each others presents home when we shop and wrap for each other and on christmas eve when we swap we trade when the children are not looking. You should see my sons eyes when he THINKS he knows what he is getting but it isn't there but what he asked for is.
Happy Holidays!

Posted by: mykidsfirst 12-Dec-07 06:33 PM

Great ideas!!! I do the spare bedroom but my best hideout for big kids presents is my oun closet! I put it under a long dress or robe and kind of cover it with it and nobody will know it's there! For my husband..the laundry room of course! He never goes there and just in case I cover them. The other great place is the unfinished basement, usually in a crafting shelf that he won't peek even you pay him! LOL
Also shoe boxes in the closet works great for little things. Nobody uses mom's shoes.
We usualy go on vacation for Christmas so we have it more difficult! This is what we do...
I put everything in a huge duffel bag or suitcases untill we leave, I am the last one to leave with the excuse of checking if everything is off and closed and I throw everythign under the tree before we leave.
When we come back, the gifts are there! Santa came!
Other times that we did not place the gifts, I was the first one to enter the house with the excuse of oepning/ventilating and see that everything was all right and throw the gifts then, but htis one is more risky since sometimes my kids are in too much of a hurry and peak through the window, dangerous!
My 8 years old still believes but she has doubted several times, my 3 years old is just learning about Santa!
We also celebrate the day of the 3 wise men in which we have to leave grass for the camels and water and the 3 wise men leaves a gift over your shoes....That's January the 6th! (5th at night) It requires to wake up in the middle of the night or place the gift after your kids are sound a sleep.
Happy Hollidays to all!
Mariana Abadie
www.MyKidsFirst.com

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