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Where do you hide the presents??

Where do you hide the presents for the kids once you've bought them?

I buy the main ones in November, and store them at the kids' Gran's house.

Smaller items are kept on a big box in my bedrom.

As a child...who all went hunting around their house? :rotfl:
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  • IvanOpinion
    IvanOpinion Posts: 22,136 Forumite
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    In my mothers roof space ... tried everywhere else but DW found them everytime .. not that she went looking for them (or so she told me).

    Ivan
    I don't care about your first world problems; I have enough of my own!
  • sorry I don't understand the question ???? hide the presents ?? :confused:

    Santa Claus brings them :j :j :T

    I'm not the brightest 33 year old bloke...but even I know that !
  • dlb
    dlb Posts: 2,488 Forumite
    Everywhere i can!! Lol mainly under the bed in the draws covered up with pjs!!
    On the last day the kids are at school, we clear out the cupboard under the stairs and everything goes in there, we then put something in front, last year it was a mirror we where waiting to put up, so the kids dont try to move it and go in.
    I have to do this as trying to get everything downstairs without waking one of the 4 is impossible.
    Oh im excited now!!!!
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  • Doozergirl
    Doozergirl Posts: 34,082 Forumite
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    I regretted finding presents in the airing cupboard when they came on Christmas morning addressed from Father Christmas :(

    There's a window seat in my little girl's bedroom that they don't know has storage underneath. That's where they're all going. :o
    Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
  • black-saturn
    black-saturn Posts: 13,937 Forumite
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    Mine are put on the top of my wardrobe or in a little cupboard at the bottom of the stairs they don't know about.
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  • Scarlett1
    Scarlett1 Posts: 6,887 Forumite
    on the shelf at the top of the wardrobe, DD has started peeking so the presents are wrapped in a bag :D
  • TNG
    TNG Posts: 6,930 Forumite
    top of wardrobe, airing cupboard (behind sheets etc), loft. Maybe even shed!
    :dance:There's a real buzz about the neighbourhood :dance:
  • lemontart
    lemontart Posts: 6,037 Forumite
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    I am very lucky to have a seperate appartment I use when I am working as I work a long way from home.........so everything goes there including the xmas groceries that I pick up item by item each time I shop.

    I used to hide freinds things at my place and mine at theirs so that really confused those looking to see what they are getting.

    Beth
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  • I hide the pressies for my missus in the saucy underwear draw - she never goes in there :(
    Debt: a bloomin big mortgage

    all posts are made for entertainment value only, nothing I say should be taken as making any sense and should really be ignored
  • ds is only 15mths so no worries there - and dh loves surprises so doesn't look even though he knows where they are lol
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