I always hide mine in big boxes in my closet, or shoe boxes. Sometimes months later I find one of my hidden treasures!

Mine are in my closet and under my bed...

In my closet.

When my kids were little, we told them if they ever found out a Christmas present before Christmas, it would go back to the store...so they wouldn't start snooping. One year we had gotten my MIL & FIL a DVD player. In conversation with my SIL, we found out she had gotten one, too. So, we took it back and exchanged for something else before Christmas. We told the kids that we took Grandma & Grandpas present back because they found out what it was! Talk about drive a point home!!! They couldn't believe we actually took it back!

They're 10 and almost 13 now and have no interest in know what they have before Christmas. Now they're old enough to understand if they blow the surprise early, it's not as much fun!

Lisa

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Lisa, I laughed out loud when I read your post about the RETURNED gift! LOL!!!!

Our kids are still too young to snoop but we hide ours in the garage in the two "Rooftop Luggage Carriers" we have for our van. We have a hardsided one that locks and then the big soft sided black one that zips closed like gigantic duffle bag. That one stays down low for me to fill quickly when I come in from shopping.

This year's most hilarious item to hide is my middle kiddo wanted a bean bag and Garden Ridge had some cute primary/multicolor ones for 9.99 this past weekend. HA HA HA! It didn't look that big in the store... Now I've got it here and it's like trying to hide an elephant!


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I keep mine at Public Storage...lol Nobody snoops there!

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I don't actually "hide" the presents. What I do is that as soon as I buy a gift I bring it home and wrap it up. Then I put on a little round sticker and write a number on it. I keep a hidden list of what that number present is and who it goes to. This way I can just pile the presents in the closet without having to hide them. Drives my kids crazy! LOL I also make sure to use "deceptive" boxes, meaning if it is a video game I will put it in a cereal box or something like that before I wrap it so that they can't just grab the gift and know what it is by the shape and size. At this point my boys don't have a clue what they are getting because of this strategy I use! LOL LOL

A perfect place is in the box your tree came...if you have an artifical tree. Nobody ever thinks to look there...they just assume it's empty.

It was funny when it happend - they couldn't believe it! But now we tease them. We'll buy something and my husband will say, "We got you a present today, here I'll tell you what it is" and act like he's going to say it. They will quickly cover their ears and start singing or something. It's become part of the fun in our house!

Lisa

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Ok, I thought I was the only weird one to do that !
DH is worse that DS!

I have mine hidden in my bedroom with a blanket over the top of it. Usually they are hidden in our basement but I don't trust my daughter not to snoop this year.

I have some in a storage bin in my closet, others in one of my empty dresser drawers and others in an Amazon box. I too have lost presents.

Laura

Hidden in the closet. My kids don't like to peek, because they tell me that it ruins the fun! :O)

My Dh's boat

The kids know to stay away from the boat

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I hide my kids presents in the rolling luggage in the basement. We keep black trash bags over the luggage so they don't get dusty. Till this day, they still haven't figured out where I hide them. I better knock wood! lol

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Since our boys are much too nosey (teenagers!), I keep all their stuff at my parents. Everyone elses gifts are kept here and immediately wrapped.

We don't have a basement but we have storage under the house that runs the length of the house. We store all our Garden, Halloween, Christmas stuff, bikes, power wheels, scooters, camping stuff, patio furniture and whatever else I'm tired of looking at. I store the gifts there in empty storage containers. It would take forever for them to find the loot.

safe,attic,behind hubbys clothes in closet

Shhhh..... They are under the guest room bed

I should probably hide them under the kids own beds cause they NEVER look there!! How funny would that be to hide their gifts in their OWN room!!

We put them up in the attic now.

In a huge mattress box. My DH calls it THE BOX..lol Whenever a b-day or event comes up that needs a gift he always pokes fun of me and asks when I need THE BOX down again

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In my closet, in the garage, in the storage room behind our house. It's locked so they can't get in there unless they ask for the key. If they happened to ask for a key this time of year, it would be to snoop so we'd know, lol.

lisacb and xhausted1- you made me LOL with your posts. And xhausted1, I've been in your shoes-back a few months ago Target had huge red bean bags on clearance so I got 2. They don't look *that* big on the shelf even but try to stuff the darn things in your cart

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I have to hide mine at my parents house. My kids are into everyting that they would find them. Christmas eve is a pain the behind loading everything in the car then unloading as you are watching all the windows to see if anyone is peaking. But it works best for us.

I put them in our closet behind the long winter coats and in storage bins.

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We hide ours in the closet or in the camper. I hid dd's lip gloss I bought for her stocking so well that even I can't find it. I hope I find it before Christmas.

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I usually keep it in the trunk of the car until the DH is out and then I wrap it. He's not nosy so I can actually keep them anywhere. Don't have to worry about kids since we don't have any unless you count the cat.

Thank you for this brilliant idea!!! I never thought to put them in the car top carrier. DD13 likes to snoop and has a few minutes home alone every afternoon while I pick up the younger ones and I know she spends that time sniffing out the loot! I can lock them up in there and I'll have the key with me. Great idea!

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