Where do you hide your holiday purchases so your littlest snoopers can’t ruin their surprises?
Fortunately, my child is young (and innocent) enough that present peeking is not an issue I have to deal with… yet. However, that is not the case with my friend, who parents three sons ages 7, 9, and 12. Apparently, her enthusiastic cherubs don’t quite appreciate the element of surprise. In fact, their mother tells me that she has run out of hiding places in her home to stow her kids’ Christmas gifts because her mini Sherlock Holmes’ have made it a holiday tradition to sniff out their presents prior to December 25th.
Enter my garage.
Yes, it’s come to this.
Right now my garage is the temporary housing area for three rather large gifts for my pal’s sneaky sons.
Each time I back out of my garage I glance over at the stack of boxes covered with garbage bags and pray that in 10 years I won’t be having to solicit storage space from friends and family members. I truly hope my daughter won’t feel compelled to scour our home in an effort to sniff out her holiday loot.
Though, who am I kidding?
As a kid, my brothers and I spent many mornings trying to figure out where our parents stashed our holiday gifts. One year one of my brothers hit the jackpot and found a handheld video game he requested hidden under some bedspreads in the hall closet. Homey even went as far as to tear off part of the wrapping paper, re-tape it so mom and dad wouldn’t notice, and then he had the audacity to act surprised on Christmas morning.
Not exactly behavior befitting the Advent season.
Still, I’m sure the aforementioned scenario takes place in households around the world on a yearly basis (not that it makes it right), which means some parents now have the added task of trying to outfox their offspring.
As though collecting the lists and hunting down the prized goods wasn’t enough for stressed out, mega-fatigued parents to deal with, now moms and dads have to strategize a way to keep their part bloodhound tykes from ruining their Christmas surprises.
How exhausting!
Where do you hide your children’s Christmas gifts?
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