Inspired by JTB: When you were a kid did you ever unwrap then rewrap x-mas presents?

[Disney845]

I am so guilty of this. I was very sneaky about it too. I would use a small sharp screw driver to slice along the tape lines. I would then carefully open one end of the present and take it out. I inspected the present and then just as carefully rewrapped, making sure to align the paper and use clear tape over the prexisting tape marks. My mom was never the wiser. I was, and still am to an extent, terrible with surprises. I wanted to know what I was getting ahead of time. Who else is going to fess up and admit to opening their x-mas presents ahead of time?

 

[cinlee3]

My cousin and I peeked at the present one Christmas. My Mom found out and said she was taking everything back. She didn't, but it was the worst Christmas because I wasn't surprised at all.

It was her fault - she put me up to it.

 

[peachgirl]

This thread brings back memories My brothers and my sister and I would wait for the parents to leave the house and then go for the packages. One year my brother was trying to open one package and it was a flashlight with a strobe light selection. He accidentally flipped the switch on and it started flashing. We heard our parents drive up and stupid kids that we were, we just stuffed the box in the back behind a bunch of other presents. We thought we were in the clear till that night and there was no hiding the flashing of that light. Most of the time we didn't have to peek. We had a closet that had a small hole in the floor that just happened to be right over the table in the basement where my mother would wrap the presents. I think we had more fun peeking that getting the actual gifts!

 

[Mackey Mouse]

Guilty here too.. my brother and I would climb to the top of the fireplace shelf where she would put them and just ever so carefully pick back the scotch tape.. she then got smart and used stickers......we could not do it after that..

 

[aahmom1]

My Father would sometimes send us Christmas presents a week before Christmas. We used to always peek at them. One year my sister got a little too excited and ripped the wrapping paper completely off the back of her Easy Bake Oven. We just crammed that side against the wall until Christmas, it about drove my her insane knwoing that was there and now being able to play with it.

 

[MerryPoppins]

Nope. But I did shake them a lot.

 

[ASFCurly]

My Mom started hiding the gifts elsewhere because we spent so much time searching and found them occasionally, my sister one year found quite a few things and told us everything that we were getting. Only once did we actually unwrap anything that had already been wrapped though.

 

[Princess_Aurora]

Yes, I'm guilty too. But my mom was real smart. When she wraped the presents she NEVER labeled them so I didn't know which ones were mine or my sisters or whoever elses presents might be under there. Her trick was she used different wrapping paper and asigned us different ones so she would no the difference when she handed them out on Xmas morning. But whenever I saw a big box under the tree I didn't care who it belonged to...I wanted to know what it was so I would usually peek.

 

[Boots]

Boots is hanging her head in shame. Yes I did. I don't do it anymore, but until I got married there were no presents under the tree to me because I would unwrap them. They were put out a day before Christmas. I could and probably still can unwrap a package and wrap it back so well you could never tell it had been done. You can steam off scotch tape and it will stay sticky and go right back whre it was. I also perfected the art of steaming open an envelope. I actually never did this to someone elses mail, I just wanted to see if it would work. I have been very good friends with a girl in Brooklyn for almost 40 years. I used to steam open all of her letters to me just to see if it worked. And yes it does!!!!

 

[shep]

Nope..And my kids won't ever do this to any gifts I wrap...you can ask dw...I use lots of tape....

 

[helenabear]

Nope... they didn't wrap them until right before. But I only know that because I was able to see a gift or two before hand while they were "hidden"

 

[GIGGLES266]

Absolutely! I used to not only unwrap the presents but try them on if the present was a piece of clothing. One year I desperately wanted a certain style of jeans. I opened the gift, found it to be the jeans, tried them on and decided I didn't like the way they looked on me. The next day I told my parents that I had decided not to ask for those jeans after all. On Chrismas morning I opened my presents to find a different style jean!! I like to think of my days of present opening as formal training preparing me for my children. Since I know every way to open a present, I am able to outwit them in their attempts to snoop.

 

[RitaZ.]

Guilty!

My mom caught me one time. I went to the bathroom to open a present and she walked in on me. She was so disappointed in me, that was the last time I did it.

 

[snoopy]

Never! I loved surprises as a kid and I still do.

My sister used to do this, and then she would be disappointed at Chrsitmas when everyone was oohing and aahing over their gifts but her. She already had a month or so to get used to the idea of what she was getting, and it took the joy out of it for her. As far as I know, she still has not learned her lesson, she probably still snoops around to see what her husband is getting her.

 

[Princess Michelle]

What do you mean when you were a kid? I still do that!

 

[PandyPaws]

Never!! After all, Santa brought the presents on Christmas Eve, there was nothing beforehand to find
Seriously, my parents hid them in my dad's workshop in the basement of the building...near the boiler room, a scary place...I wasn't going there, LOL!

We (my brothers and I ) anticipated the suprise of it all SO much, we didn't even come out of our rooms to peek on Christmas morning until my parents were up and the tree was lit

 

[Grog]

Not as a rule, but I do admit to doing it a couple of times. Then it was only one present each time to see if I had guessed right as to what it was. I think I was more afraid of getting caught then I was curious

 

[disneyvacationmom]

I remember the year I found a Chatty Kathy doll in my moms closet. Imagine how disappointed I was on Christmas morning when it wasn't under the tree. It turned out that she was hiding it for the neighbour. I'm still disappointed about that doll.

 

[browneyes]

Inspired by JTB: When you were a kid did you ever unwrap then rewrap x-mas presents?

Yep.

 

[AngieBelle]

Oh yes! I was (and sometimes still am) a little snoop! I used to search all over the house for presents. My sister and I often did the unwrapping and rewrapping thing, though I tried to only do it when I had a pretty good idea what the present was. I'm a good guesser, and my mom tends to be pretty predictable when it comes to gifts. hehe

On my 6th birthday, I was so excited about one of my presents that I played with it- tossing it up and down....until it landed on the floor and tore the the wrapping paper! (it was a princess My Little Pony. )