Fluffiness: Hiding Christmas gifts?

by bebu 20 Replies latest jw friends

  • bebu
    bebu

    Where to hide those gifts... I've got some ideas, but I'm hoping to find more.

    One great place I've found is the large boxes that were originally holding the Christmas ornaments. They get put back on the garage shelving with lots of things stuffed in. My kids would never consider it. Also, with all the various boxes in the garage, it's easy to slide a large flat one in--looks as if it has always been there. (Tip: Don't clean the garage in the fall; very useful for Christmas.) And all the bags that sit on the gardening shelving unit have a few more joining them for a little while.

    My parents used to put the gifts inside the area under their waterbed... I don't know how they did this, but it was a large space inside the base, and difficult to get access to. And handy, since they would wrap the presents in the bedroom.

    I have had neighbors house some things that needed assembly and were large (foosball table).

    If you have any other creative ideas, or techniques for keeping a gift a surprise, I'd be glad to know!

    bebu

  • Mysterious
    Mysterious

    I don't have prying children, just a dub mother.

    Best hiding places are things that are known to be full to the brim with junk, things no one goes in. Perhaps an old dresser that is full of papers. Take some papers out and stick gifts on the bottom fill to the top with papers again. The drawer gets opened, it's just the same old (undisturbed) papers and the drawer gets closed again.

  • La Capra
    La Capra

    The extra freezer in the garage, the trunk of your car, under the clothes in the ironing box, or under "not too dirty" laundry...just don't wash that bottom layer til after Christmas, in the attic rafters, in the neighbor's garage...there is always lots of scuttling around late Christmas eve in my neighborhood, as people with kids collect the stashes from the garages of people without kids.

  • Dansk
    Dansk

    I walked into my younger son's room yesterday (yes, I did knock first) and found him hurriedly shutting a cupboard door.

    "What's in there?", I asked.

    "Nothing", came the reply!

    I KNOW WHERE THE PREZZIES ARE! I KNOW WHERE THE PREZZIES ARE!

    Ian - who's just loving Christmas more and more

  • Angharad
    Angharad

    This is the first year we have put presents under the tree, so far nothing has been sneakly opened, but the kids are keeping track of the number under there - yesterday I added a little one each for the kids (they know which are theirs because they chose the wrapping paper). Liam came home and spotted it straight away and went running to Dylan shouting 'THERE'S MORE PRESENTS !!!!!'

    Before I got around to wrapping them, they were hidden right under their nose ! Neither of them thought to investigate the large lump on the floor in our bedroom that had a dressing gown thrown over it , or the plastic bags that suddenly appeared on top of the wardrobes in the kids rooms

    We will probably have to get more creative with hiding things as they get older.

    Simon is worse than the kids for wanting his pressie now !

  • Dansk
    Dansk
    Neither of them thought to investigate the large lump on the floor in our bedroom that has a dressing gown thrown over it

    No wonder, they thought it was their dad!

  • Angharad
    Angharad

    LOL Dansk - your probably right

  • Mulan
    Mulan

    I took the presents for Rachel's family to their house, for under the tree. Her daughter (age 5) looked at her wrapped packages, and said....."this one is a Barbie doll, and this one is jewelry". How did she know? She cracks me up. Next year, I will wrap things in bigger boxes.

    I have all the other gifts for the family under the tree here, and will deliver early next week, or the weekend. My Dad has a tree downstairs and I was going to put the ones from him and for him under his tree, but the cat keeps playing with the skirt under the tree, and messing it up badly, so I think he would tear up the packages too. I've heard cats do that.

    Before I wrapped everything, I kept the gifts in the back of closets, and in my office under a pile of junk, and coats. At Thanksgiving, the kids did move things around, but nothing for them was under the pile.

  • Kran goo goo platter
    Kran goo goo platter

    I thought we weren't suppossed to celebrate christmas? This is cheating surely...

  • simplesally
    simplesally

    Mine are in the back of the SUV but Teryn is only 2 1/2. But I did have a close call yesterday when she and I got done with grocery shopping she wanted to help unload I was so afraid she'd see all the stuff in the back and want to unload them or notice that there was a big Elmo sitting back there. Pretty soon, it will be stored at work. The office girl is wrapping all my presents and then I am done.

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