Best “in plain sight” place to hide Christmas presents?

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Anonymous wrote:We store our Christmas decorations in tubs. When the decorations go up, the gifts go into the tubs. My kids are none the wiser.

This is what I do too.

[Anonymous]

Behind the boiler in ikea bags, on the top shelves of the pantry and garage. In the above fridge cabinets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We store our Christmas decorations in tubs. When the decorations go up, the gifts go into the tubs. My kids are none the wiser.

I keep unwrapped stuff shoved among the clothes in my closet. Once I wrap it goes out to the garage to the empty holiday decorations totes.

[Anonymous]

Wowza. Sounds like you all buy a ton of gifts.

Ours can all fit in a small tote under our bed. Should we be doing more? Is this something kids notice in school?

[Anonymous]

We have bankers boxes and storage tubs in the top of our closet. Most have off season clothes, old papers, etc. - But some are empty and used for gifts.
My tooth fairy supplies are hidden in a shoe box, on a shelf of shoeboxes with my dress shoes in them. My boys have 0 interest in my high heels.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wonderful neighbors attic!

Yes! Growing up, our neighbors had 4 kids all younger than me. Once I knew about Santa, the mom would come over and wrap gifts and stack them in our basement.

[Anonymous]

I've locked larger things in the utility closet and/or shed before. DH sometimes finds places in the garage where the kids aren't likely to look. Small items go in a bag that I hang on a hanger in my closet and arrange clothes around so that you can't see it.

[Anonymous]

In the bathtub of our guest bathroom. Everything is hidden by the shower curtain and there's never really a reason for my kids to go in there. We tie a plastic bag over the faucet in case it leaks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wowza. Sounds like you all buy a ton of gifts.

Ours can all fit in a small tote under our bed. Should we be doing more? Is this something kids notice in school?

I would say no, you shouldn’t be doing more; but yes, unfortunately this is something kids often notice at school. It depends on the kids and the friend group though, honestly.

[Anonymous]

We have a workbench in our basement with drawers I put gifts in. They're nice and deep. I've also put gifts in the spare bedroom dresser.

[Anonymous]

I just wrap and put out. Seems like the easiest way to hide in plain sight!

[Anonymous]

with the cleaning supplies

[Anonymous]

We do mostly online shopping. We leave everything in the shipping boxes until we wrap them on Christmas Eve. We just have them stacked in the garage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In the bathtub of our guest bathroom. Everything is hidden by the shower curtain and there's never really a reason for my kids to go in there. We tie a plastic bag over the faucet in case it leaks.

My MIL did this -- until a very young DW and her sister found the gifts (already wrapped), opened them and then (poorly) rewrapped them and put them back in the tub.

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Wrapped with someone else's name on it, like a neighbor or cousin.

I started making sure the wrapping paper was the way I could remember which gift was for which kid instead of the tag.

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