Are you a gift "snooper" now or were you one as a kid?

I admit it - I was!! I went through everything.....and was even so bad as to unwrap the ends of gifts to find out what they were and then rewrapped/taped them!! I am happy to report, however, that I have outgrown that problem.

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I was, I am, and will remain one until the day I die...
seriously, I can get in and out of a present so well no one knows!

Shhhhh! Don't tell anybody!
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Then Jesus said, "Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest." Matthew 11:28

as a kid I'd unwrap them, play with them while parents was gone, and rewrap before they got home. gave me away when the tape wouldnt hold as well anymore lol


Now, I dont want gifts, I dont want anything for mothers day, valentines ect can get whatever i want cheaper some other time of the year instead of a big holiday.

couple years ago my best friend at the time felt so sorry since I didnt get anything for mothers day even though i told her I was fine about it. She insisted on taking me out for dinner. about midway she asked if I had called my mom or if i was calling her later. I just looked up at her in a daze with huge tears in my eyes because it was the first mothers day without my mom. I simply said she didnt have a phone. My friend you could tell she was thinking about what i said when it dawned on her what the problem was. We didnt stop talking because of that but I havent seen her in a long time.

I'm having a time now cause this is my first christmas without my grandpa. talked to grandma the other day and she started crying so i told her she really shouldnt cry cause if he looked down it'd hurt him that she was crying. Theyd been married for like 68 years so it's going to be hard for her too

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I've been a "snooper" all my life

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I was never a snooper.And I really don't know why..Maybe there was nothing I really wanted so I never cared to snoop.Maybe I never thought of snooping.Did I have too many other things on my mind?Maybe I was just too infatuated with the beautiful Christmas tree and that was all I cared about. I remember how much I loved that Christmas tree ,and playing Christmas songs on the organ and staring at all the colorful lights,shiny,glittery decorations,and all the reflections on the tinsel, the blinking lights and ,oh here I go again ,falling in love with the Christmas tree .

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I was a snooper as a child, but now, I haven't a clue where DH or the boys put anything! I don't go looking though either!

Not at all. I like to be surprised. What would be the fun of knowing what your gift is? When my daughter was 9 or so, she opened her gifts when no one was around, and wrapped them back up. She felt so guilty that she cried about it.

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mee too! I hate to be surprised!

Coming from a family with 5 children (5 kids in 5 years with one set of twins) we would often goad each other into peeking. One year, when my brother was a teen, he peeked, saw he was getting a leather coat that he wanted. So, he took it out of the box each day after our mother left, wore it during the day, then "boxed" it before mom got home. I don't remember if she ever knew or not. I, too, am one who doesn't want presents anymore either. I too would rather get stuff when I get it on sale and I LOVE buying for everyone else. My two kids are not snoopers...go figure

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When I was about 10 years old I and my 4 other siblings went looking for our presents - we found a bag with 5 games in it - Twister, Hands Down, Hungry Hungry Hippo, Cooties and Tip-it (Funny I can still remember what they were)

My mom caught us and put the presents under the tree - unwrapped.

Because we were relatively poor, we only got 2 or 3 gifts each, so having one not wrapped was so sad.

We never again snooped.

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Oh, I am a snooper! Although I won't look for anything that my kids got me, I'll look high and low for a gift from DH...it's become quite the tradition...he wins if I still don't know what's in the box come opening time...

I was not a snooper but I would walk into a room and oops there was my christmas present sitting out. That happened twice two different years and it really ruined it for me. My daughter however was a snooper and still is at 41. I got her good won year I wrapped her stereo and put it front and center of all the packages and put my aunts name on it. She said "why did you do that mom, and I said because you are a snoop and I didn't want you to know that I got it for you."

I have my own secret snooper. My DH has always taken my presents to her to look at.

I remember the year he bought me my engagement ring. It was Christmas morning she ran down the hall grabbed the box and flew back down the hall yelling Aprile it's a ring! He got you a ring! Mean while my BF at the time just stood there kinda shell shocked. By the time she had reached me she was so giddy with joy and was yelling at me to open it, OPEN IT! Please she would say. Then I unwrapped the gift and looked at my beautiful ring and his mother looks at him and says "she says yes" I sat there and giggled the whole time. it was so funny. Not everyone can say their mother in law proposed to her on Christmas morning.

Last year he bought me a suprise cruise like 2 days before Christmas. She kept dropping little hints and almost point blank told me a couple of times. I think it is cute she gets so excited over the gifts and is excited to see my reaction.

So she is my personal santa snooper.

I simply love to be surprised it takes the fun out of it. However when I was about 9 years old and being the eldest, I have the very clear memory of when I realized or found out Santa was not real, I had gotten up and was not feeling too well. I went into my parents bedroom and they were not there. We were living in a apartment building. Needless to say I opened up the door to the hallway and in the back of the hallway was my parents putting together 3 bikes for us.I asked and my dad said Santa simply does not have enough time to do all the work by himself, so sometimes parents help. I believed my dad for awhile. However as old as I am I in my heart always want to feel Santa does indeed exist, perhaps not in the sense of riding a sled with reindeer, but perhaps in ways of helping people out at this time of the year who really do not have much. So in a way, for me and them somehow , someway Santa manages to deliver..Always believe in the magic. Peace and stay safe in this holiday season... Catherine

Nope, not a snooper. I love to be surprised.

I'm trying to reconcile all these snoopers (Long live snoopers!) with the other thread on where you hide Christma gifts where everyone says "My kids don't snoop". Hmmm....what ya don't know.....lol

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I was walking home one night and a guy hammering on a roof called me a paranoid little weirdo. In morse code. -Emo Phillips

As a kid we used to shake and poke at the packages and try to untape them to see what was inside. Once I remember my grandma helping us lol. If Mommy knew she would have been so mad!
Now I wait I don't want to know what is in the box.

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I don't remember ever snooping but I did find a few things by accident. Things like mom sending you into her room to grab something for her and forgetting she had gifts sitting out, etc.

I think the big reason I never snooped is because we always got what we asked for. Now before anyone thinks our family is crazy rich and we were spoiled brats, let me say we were told to keep our lists to just a couple things that we REALLY wanted. That way it was possible for our parents to get us what we really wanted.
I really can't remember NOT getting what I asked for at Christmas. Heck, mom even managed to score a Cabbage Patch doll for my sister the year they were the HOT item(found out years later that aunt that worked at a store called mom and told her an unexpected shipment of dolls had come in so mom hurried there and got one).

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Nope, not a snooper -- I love surprises

One year I was a snooper. I unwrapped all the presents and re-opened them. My mom didn't know but she caught my brother doing it so the following years, she put gifts under the tree but no names so we didn't know whose was whose.I didn't snoop after that...too much work and we weren't alone to do it really. I don't snoop anymore and to my knowledge, my kids don't snoop. I don't get gifts anymore except something the kids make at school and I like to be surprised by those

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Guilty! Not as much any more but when I was younger I was awful. Both my sister and I usually knew what we were getting almost as soon as it was bought.
My Mom + Dad got me one year though. My Dad had a stereo under his desk in the garage and showed it to me- told me it was for my Mom- did I think she'd like it.
Come Christmas- they all had a good laugh when I kept trying to get my Mom to open my present!

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Big time snooper!!! Still am and I just turned 45. I hate seeing a present for me and I can't open it. DH fooled me a few years ago. He got me a stereo/cd player for my car...Son-of-a-gun hid it in my own trunk! GRRRRR. He usually hides them really well from me. Some times they are so good he can't find them!

I used to be but I'm not now. I enjoy opening the gifts on Christmas morning more if I'm really surprised.

Once my son woke up to go potty he was about 2 or 3. He saw my brother in law putting his Big Bird big wheel together and the next morning my sister, her husband, and myself all convinced him it was a dream! On Christmas eve he opened it he said "I thought I was dreaming".

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That is a cute story. Made me smile!

I won't snoop. I like surprises. Plus, it always seemed unfair to the gift giver for me to ruin their hard work with me snooping. Of course, DH has not creative bone in his body, so if I point out something I like, that's what I get. He has yet to "surprise" me.

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Hate surprises. I have always been a snoop. As a kid my parents would lock our presents up in a closet and I would hunt down the key and open the gifts and rewrap without a shred of evidence. They would also put a piece of paper in the door to tell if anyone opened it and I would mark it and put it back. As to this day my DH does not like buying me anything because I snoop and can't stand surprises. I love to snoop though.