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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I spread out gifts to the kids at Christmas bc they get so much from relatives - the kids actually appreciate/play with the gifts much more rather than having the gifts get lost in the crowd if we dole them out over a few weeks. It's not such a big deal. [/quote]

[b]When I give a Christmas gift, I expect it to be opened on Christmas morning not two weeks or a month later.  The same with birthday gifts.  I would be furious if someone did this with my gifts[/b].[/quote]

Not the PP to whom you replied, but an NP here:

Wow. So no option for Christmas night (when some families do gifts), Christmas Eve (our family always opened some gifts then), the 26th (our family overseas does extended family gifts that day), the weekend after Christmas if maybe that's when the main family get-together takes place--?

And you'd waste an emotion as potent as "fury" on someone not opening your gift in a very specific time frame of a few hours on one day of the year? I assume you're saying this about gifts you've sent and won't see the person opening, which is different from handing someone a gift and watching them open it on the spot. If you're not present on Christmas morning to enforce your gift-opening rule, why get so worked up over this? Once a gift leaves your hands it's no longer yours and what you expect others to do with it doesn't matter. Do you also call your family and friends on Christmas afternoon to ensure that they opened your gifts that morning?

I'd be happier knowing that I'd given a gift that was opened when a kid or adult could give it more attention, rather than in a pile of many gifts. But it doesn't matter because once it's given, it is no longer something over which I have control. 
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