My son is 7. I’ve been hiding Christmas presents for 7 years. I have to admit, i’m one of those crazy, obnoxious people who gets their Christmas shopping done by Thanksgiving. I do it for a number of reasons. I hate lines and crowds. And i like to make sure i get the things he wants before the rush starts and i can’t find them anywhere. I like to consider myself a pretty experienced present hider. Or so i thought! I always hide all the “Santa” presents in my closet in a corner and push all my dresses and jackets to that end to cover them. I put them in plastic bins in my closet and on top of them (but hidden of course). He’s too young to even consider snooping or anything, so i’m usually confident that he wont find them.
Ha!
Yeah!
Until just the other day. Without me knowing he went into my closet to get something. And when he came out the conversation went like this:
Hunter: “Were you gonna get me guitar hero for Christmas?” Now, what he doesn’t know is that my mother got him Wii for xmas and that’s what guitar hero is for.
Me: “I don’t know, why?” Still not knowing he was in my closet and where this was going.
Hunter: “Oh because i just saw it in your closet.”
Me: like a deer in headlights, “What else did you see in there?”
Hunter: “nothing really,” now realizing maybe that was a mistake.
Me: “Tell me what else you saw.”
Hunter: “Um…legos and a spider man thing.” What he actually saw were the lincoln logs and an aircraft carrier with a True Heroes logo in the corner and assumed it was spider man. Whew! Dodged a bullet there!!
Me: “ok, well the guitar hero is for you for Christmas and all the other toys are for the other kids.” Not including Hunter, i have 12 kids to buy presents for.
Hunter: “Oh yeah, i know. The spider man thing is for Liam, huh?”
Me: “Yup. Now no more going in my closet.”
I. Was. Devastated.
My baby almost figured out the secret to Christmas!! I want him to believe, seriously, until he has kids! I think i handled it okay, luckily he didn’t find ALL the presents… and the ones he saw i’ll just wrap different and say they’re from me so he doesn’t suspect anything. But damnit! Now i have to go spend more money on shit from Santa!!
Guess next year i’ll be hiding the presents someplace else!
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OH NO!!! I would have been upset too! But it's too late for me anyway, both boys know…and well, it does make it easier now, LOL
But you know, I shop early too, and I wrap as I buy, I keep track in a binder of what I've got already & wrapped, that way if they do see it, they don't REALLY see it, you know? LOL
That was close!!! My 11 year old still belives and I wonder if that is normal but I am going with it but he wants all this expensive stuff like an ipod, games for the Wii and his DS. It would be nice for him to relaize that we buy the gifts! I hope he is not too disappointed when he gets a few things on the laundry list!
aw man! maybe you should procrastinate more, like the rest of us!
My niece recently found all of her teeth that the Tooth Fairy supposedly took years ago! hahahahaaa! Explain that one!
Glad I found your blog!
LOL to funny. Mine are still to young to question the Santa thing. I’m always running around last minute getting gifts etc.
Mine still don’t know where I hide things…whew!!!
I found out because my mom wrapped Santa presents in special paper every year. Then, because she was a pack rat she hid the paper under the bed. So one time in July I was playing in her room and lost a Barbie I think and looked under the bed. Now THAT was an ugly scene.
Thanks for coming by my blog! And I loved your birthday story. I did the same thing when I was, ah hem, 38. Told everyone for a year I was 38. Then on the day of my birthday, I said, wow…only one year until I turn 40. At which point my husband looked at me like I was crazy and said “sweetie, you just turned 38…” Lost a whole year!
either a storage area, basement, trunk of your car, or your best friends basement. I don’t even have kids, I hide my honey’s gifts at my friends house b/c I suspect he’s a xmas gift snooper!
when I was kid my sister would unwrap her gifts completely while the rest of us slept and then re-wrap them just as neatly with the same role of wrapping paper! diabolical!
Too funny.
My husband and I told my daughter that Santa was not real but a symbol of the giving spirit.
I shop online, so every time a package came last year she asked, “Is that a Christmas prehhhhsent?” She knew it was me buying presents for her.
I literally filled up the family room with toys, it was ridiculous. But guess what? Christmas morning after she opened all her gifts, she excitedly yelled out, “Thank you Santa!”
We told her the truth and she still chooses to believe in Santa. Kids are amazingly self-delusional. I’m sure your son will forget all about the closet come Christmas morning.
Oh no! If it makes you feel better, yesterday I got a box of stuff from Amazon and got distracted and left it open on the couch. My 4 year old came downstairs from his nap and there it was.
It was just a small toy so we went ahead and let him have it – he has worked out in his head that it’s still somehow from Santa, so I guess the magic is still there.
OUCH! I was the kid that went in the closet, carefully unwrapped each gift to see what it was and then re-wrapped it. Yep. That’s me…