https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:58:57 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-are-you-hiding-gifts/page/2#post-2905840 Sat, 14 Dec 2019 21:40:05 +0000 Petitduck 2905840@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I never even thought about this. I just have them in one of our kid’s rooms in the closet in bags before they’re wrapped. It’s where I keep presents throughout the year and has worked so far. </p> <p>As a kid I never once looked for gifts or shook them under the tree or anything, but maybe I’m weird?! I’d be so sad if my kids looked for gifts, but it’s probably inevitable. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-are-you-hiding-gifts/page/2#post-2905803 Sat, 14 Dec 2019 11:21:57 +0000 meganmp 2905803@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We don't hide, we wrap upon buying them and leave them under the tree. That is the way we have always done it in my family, though. It is building some awesome delayed gratification skills with my kids! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-are-you-hiding-gifts/page/2#post-2905789 Fri, 13 Dec 2019 20:32:13 +0000 wrkbrk 2905789@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Corduroy: In the corner of unfinished basement. Door had a lock DS can’t reach! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-are-you-hiding-gifts/page/2#post-2905723 Fri, 13 Dec 2019 13:20:51 +0000 Foodnerd81 2905723@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have an extra closet in our master bedroom that we store luggage and miscellaneous boring stuff in, and that’s where presents go. I think next year I’ll put a lock on the door. For now I make sure to keep the box of gifts that other people have sent in front so if they did peek in, the would see gifts from their aunts, not Santa. </p> <p>I never understood wrapping things and leaving them under the tree. My kids would be all over that the whole season, asking to open them, shaking them, trying to sneak a look. No thank you. Plus I prefer the magic of no presents there on Christmas Eve then tons when you wake up Christmas morning! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-are-you-hiding-gifts/page/2#post-2905715 Fri, 13 Dec 2019 12:26:04 +0000 Alba4 2905715@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>In our bedroom closet, but my 6 year old saw them. I need to find a new place next year. Luckily they are too high and he couldn’t see the specifics. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-are-you-hiding-gifts/page/2#post-2905703 Fri, 13 Dec 2019 10:29:41 +0000 josina 2905703@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ours are in a box in our storage closet... too high for the LO's to search through right now. I do ship everything to my office though (keeps DH from finding out what he gets too!) so I could potentially just keep everything here / wrap it here before I bring it home. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-are-you-hiding-gifts#post-2905700 Fri, 13 Dec 2019 10:26:28 +0000 babycanuck 2905700@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I hid ours under the spare room bed (LO never looks there) until the tree went up, and then the gifts all went under wrapped. Gifts come from us/others and the stocking is from Santa in our house. We also celebrate Chanukah and don't hide those once wrapped. He's been asking every night if he can open one and we keep reinforcing that he can't under Chanukah starts (or it's Christmas) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-are-you-hiding-gifts#post-2905654 Thu, 12 Dec 2019 21:12:22 +0000 Mama Bird 2905654@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm hiding ours tucked in with outgrown clothes and stuff I've piled up to get rid of. So far, so good.... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-are-you-hiding-gifts#post-2905653 Thu, 12 Dec 2019 21:10:42 +0000 autumnleaves 2905653@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I keep them in the packaging they are mailed in. Gifts that I get in a store I hide in the top of closets out of sight and reach. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-are-you-hiding-gifts#post-2905641 Thu, 12 Dec 2019 19:47:46 +0000 Mrs. Champagne 2905641@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I’m boxes in the garage. We moved in recently so boxes aren’t a strange sight and they haven’t commented. There’s one huge teetering pile that no one has noticed haha </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-are-you-hiding-gifts#post-2905637 Thu, 12 Dec 2019 19:41:49 +0000 SweetCaroline 2905637@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We put a keypad on the closet under the stairs. It's so great and worry free! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-are-you-hiding-gifts#post-2905635 Thu, 12 Dec 2019 19:11:47 +0000 petitenoisette 2905635@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Everything is just sitting in boxes on top of our guest bed which is on the first floor. There is a baby gate in the doorway so the kids don’t really go in there unattended but my almost 5 year old (and 2 year old too of course) is pretty delightfully unaware of the whole gifts thing. I’m sure things will be different next year! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-are-you-hiding-gifts#post-2905614 Thu, 12 Dec 2019 16:29:35 +0000 helloperidot 2905614@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have a storage unit and that's where presents live. 😂 They're hidden in bright colored 18g containers, just like all of our other household goods. My kids dont go to the unit, but in the off chance that my oldest begged to go with her dad or something, she still wouldn't know to look in there for presents. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-are-you-hiding-gifts#post-2905611 Thu, 12 Dec 2019 16:16:31 +0000 kiddosc 2905611@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>In the basement... it's unfinished so they don't really have a reason to be down there. DH's presents are hidden on top shelves of the kid's closets and behind my clothes in the closet. We wrap presents from mom and dad early and start putting them under the tree as soon as it's up, so we really only need to hide the Santa gifts. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-are-you-hiding-gifts#post-2905608 Thu, 12 Dec 2019 16:09:03 +0000 ALV91711 2905608@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@krispi: this is what I’m doing this year. It is working great!</p> <p>I have a couple amazon boxes on a shelf in the garage and I also have a Rubbermaid in my closet that I put in things throughout the year as I get them for bdays etc. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-are-you-hiding-gifts#post-2905604 Thu, 12 Dec 2019 15:37:50 +0000 LCTBQE 2905604@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Guest room closet, but my kids are too little to know to look. My dad used to use the trunk of his commuter sedan which we never went in. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-are-you-hiding-gifts#post-2905602 Thu, 12 Dec 2019 15:00:43 +0000 bhbee 2905602@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@krispi: suitcases, why didn’t I think of that?? We do travel but it’s always after we open presents at home so it would work much better than my corner of closet plan! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-are-you-hiding-gifts#post-2905601 Thu, 12 Dec 2019 14:57:31 +0000 MrsSRS 2905601@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>In Amazon boxes top shelf of my closet. But I think I am lucky because my kids aren't likely to go looking. I could probably just say they're presents leave them alone and I think they likely would. Next year I may need to get sneaky because DD is leaning that way the sassy little thing... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-are-you-hiding-gifts#post-2905594 Thu, 12 Dec 2019 14:29:28 +0000 Corduroy 2905594@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Loving all the different spots. Right now I have everything in it's opened shipping packaging on top of my dresser. Just small stocking stuff type stuff and it's so out in the open I don't think it would occur to anyone that it's presents. Looks more like return pile. I have some more stuff coming today and some in the back of my van that absolutely needs to be hidden. I think it will go into suitcases since we aren't traveling this year. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-are-you-hiding-gifts#post-2905583 Thu, 12 Dec 2019 13:54:36 +0000 peaches1038 2905583@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@krispi: we hide in suitcases too!! We also have a guest bathroom in the finished basement we don’t use so I hide things in the tub all the time </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-are-you-hiding-gifts#post-2905582 Thu, 12 Dec 2019 13:44:57 +0000 smuckers 2905582@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@krispi: This is hilarious, because my brother used to ship me presents he bought for his wife directly so I could wrap them for him! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-are-you-hiding-gifts#post-2905581 Thu, 12 Dec 2019 13:42:41 +0000 krispi 2905581@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This year, they're all in the suitcases that we store in our master closet so that nothing looks out of place. But I'm running out of room and have a couple more presents yet to arrive! </p> <p>@smuckers: A bit different, but my dad and I had a funny ritual when I was in high school. He'd buy my mom's presents and hide them under my bed until I could wrap them and put them under the tree. I love wrapping presents, and my parents really missed that when I moved out. :happy: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-are-you-hiding-gifts#post-2905578 Thu, 12 Dec 2019 13:33:28 +0000 Bluemasonjar 2905578@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Throughout the year I hide gifts on a shelf in my closet under the clothes but for Christmas everything is piling up on the closet floor. DS (4) knows there are gifts for others there but isn't old enough to snoop around to find things for him. But I need a new plan for next year.</p> <p>I'm thinking about getting a large plastic tote that I can keep in the garage or laundry room that I can hide things in for next year. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-are-you-hiding-gifts#post-2905555 Thu, 12 Dec 2019 12:55:38 +0000 ElbieKay 2905555@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrsbells: I am hoping that I can go back to putting them under the tree next year. But this year my twins are 16mo. They have already removed the ornaments from the bottom third of the tree. It would be a disaster if I put gifts there too! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-are-you-hiding-gifts#post-2905554 Thu, 12 Dec 2019 12:54:33 +0000 ElbieKay 2905554@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't think my Kindergartener has figured out how to snoop yet. So, I am just using the unlocked closet in my office / spare bedroom on our second floor.</p> <p>Next year I will probably switch to the one closet on the third floor that can be locked from the outside. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-are-you-hiding-gifts#post-2905553 Thu, 12 Dec 2019 12:52:20 +0000 pachamama 2905553@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Corduroy: right in the laundry room bc you know husband won't go in there 👌 </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-are-you-hiding-gifts#post-2905551 Thu, 12 Dec 2019 12:46:24 +0000 brownepiano 2905551@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My closet is like a small room with actual clothes storage attached, so I have lots of shelving in there. The gifts go up in a box on top of a 6 ft shelf. The kids couldn't get it unless they dragged in a super tall chair. They pretty much aren't allowed in the closet anyway. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-are-you-hiding-gifts#post-2905539 Thu, 12 Dec 2019 11:01:18 +0000 Mrsbells 2905539@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Corduroy: we put them in the master closet as well but I wrapped them early and put them all under the tree. The tree looks better with presents under it anyway. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-are-you-hiding-gifts#post-2905532 Thu, 12 Dec 2019 10:41:13 +0000 BadgerMom 2905532@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@JennyPenny: I had everything sent to work one year when we were remodeling our house. It was great! I even stayed late one night and wrapped everything on the conference room table. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-are-you-hiding-gifts#post-2905530 Thu, 12 Dec 2019 10:25:41 +0000 smuckers 2905530@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When I was little I "found" some presents under my parent's bed (really I was sitting on the bed swinging my feet, accidentally kicked something because my dad was a bad hider, and looked under the bed to see what I'd kicked). My mom explained it to me that Santa was so, so busy delivering all those toys on Christmas Eve that sometimes he sent some toys to houses ahead of time (but only if the parents said that was ok and they had well-behaved children who wouldn't seek and peek). He would still come on Christmas to fill my stocking and eat cookies, of course, but it saved him some time to send some of the presents beforehand. </p> <p>I'm super impressed with her quick thinking, haha. </p>