Spouse tearing apart the closet looking for Christmas gifts.
Kids peaking under the bed and your best friend going through your shopping receipts? You need help hiding those Christmas gifts and that's what I'm here for.
Buy a roll of shelf paper and paper up those large boxed gifts. Throw a Christmasy table cloth over it and use as an end table or some other small table. This one works really well, it will even fool teenagers.
Choose a color for each member of the family and wrap all of that members gifts in that color. After you have done this for each member add random names to the gifts. Add names of extended family who will be showing up after your immediate family has opened their gifts. But don't forget which color belongs to who!
Find a large box and toss all the family gifts in first, then add gifts for the grandparents and others on top. When asked, say that all those gifts are for other people. Make sure the really 'boring' stuff gets put on top. Leave it out in plain sight and occassionaly add something for grandpa to it, like a box of adult diapers.
Get together with your neighbor and trade gifts. You can trade back Christmas Eve night after everyone has gone to bed. Make sure your neighbor can keep a secret and a straight face if you try this one.
Don't buy any gifts. Stay in bed Christmas and claim to have a headache. Tell your family you will make it up to them later. Wait till the day after Christmas and take them shopping. This way you can take advantage of all the After Christmas sales.
#5 will work! My son used to buy his gifts at a drugstore that opened Christmas morning and bring them to us in sacks. No danger of peeking in this situation. You keep writing these wonderful lists!
Very good, Elaine! Now that my kids are all grown, I get this! I have done the wrong name one before~lol!
Creative ways to hide the gifts! I should have read # 5 before I went shopping, but there is always next year!
I never did find where my parents kept the gifts. A few people I know even rent a storage unit just for November and December. They said it cost $60 but was well worth it to have a 100% safe spot.
I'm so limited. The house I lived in had about 14 rooms and crawl spaces galore. I always used the crawl spaces...now my son tells me how he uncovered all his gifts early. Oh my. Thanks for the clever list of ideas. I think I should have been that smart!
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