So were you a present snooper as a kid?

[chicagodisneyfan]

I had the fool proof way to find out what we were getting - my mother saved all receipts in an envelope. All I had to do was go through them!

Only did it once - until I realized it ruined the spirit of Christmas.

 

[rie'smom]

Yes I was. Mom would wrap ours and put them under the tree. If I suspected one was mine, I'd ask her whose it was and she'd tell me. Then I'd ask again another day and she'd tell me a different name. When she left the house, I'd open it. It helped me to become a really great gift wrapping person because I'd have to re-wrap the gift after I peeked and mom was maniacal about having perfectly wrapped gifts.

 

[Katy Belle]

When i was in the 4th grade i stayed home from school "sick." I found EVERY single one of my gifts, and my brothers, even all the stocking stuffers. It was the most disapointing Christmas ever. I told no one and never did it again.

But i was always a present shaker and could usually figure out what was inside.

 

[erincon23]

A former boss told us how he handled his snoopy daughter -- he was a meticulous wrapper (dresser, organizer, etc). He had wrapped all the gifts and put them in a closet. Came home one day and could tell they had been unwrapped and rewrapped -- daughter was probably 8 or 9, no way could they rewrap like dad had wrapped! So he took all her gifts, said he was returning them, took them out to the car, and drove away! He put them in in his trunk and there they stayed until after the other two kids had opened theirs! Then he went and got them -- I bet that taught her a lesson, sitting there crying on Christmas Day. A little cruel for me, but I'm sure it worked!

 

[PollyannaMom]

Nope, I was not a snooper. The anticipation is part of the fun.

 

[SDFgirl]

I was a big time snooper until I was about 9 or 10, then my parents wised up and started hiding the gifts in the (locked) shed instead of in their bedroom closet.

My DDs are 3 and 18 months and we bring the gifts in right in front of them, they don't even catch on. I have the feeling this is the last year for that.

 

[SpecialK]

I snooped once. I reached under the sheet that was draped over my dad's workbench and felt fur. I was getting a puppy! I was sure of it. Imagine my disappointment when I got a big stuffed dog on Christmas morning.

 

[effervescent]

I did once as a child and my Christmas morning was such a let down since I already knew what all I got. I never did it again. I haven't caught my oldest snooping (as of yet!) and my youngest are too little to think about it.

 

[C.Ann]

Adult DD is the worst.. That's why her DH started locking them in the trunk of his Camaro - before they had my DGD..

I don't particularly care for "surprises" - as in birthday parties and such - but Christmas is definitely the exception to the rule!!!!

 

[Mrs. Charming]

I actually wasn't. One time, my mom said she knew I was snooping, but I think she moved things around and forgot she did! I just didnt want to ruin it.

 

[DisneyBamaFan]

I was/am a believer. What could ruin the spirit of Christmas more than trying to ruin the joy of Christmas morning?

No, I was not a snooper. After all, what would I find? Santa doesn't deliver our presents until Christmas Eve, after everyone is snug in their beds.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Heck ya!

My dh would unwrap his gifts, play with them and then wrap them back up.

My kids used to "snoop" and youngest is still a snooper, like her daddy.

Older dd at one point refused to snoop and would get mad if she saw something.

I stopped hiding things when they got older and told them not to look in the closet.

 

[shortbun]

One year my brother and I opened all the gifts and rewrapped them. Needless to say, Mom recognized our crime when she put the gifts out. She woke us up with her laughter that night but Dad ushered us back to bed with some lie and we went back to sleep. It ruined Christmas for us; we never did it again. I keep my son's gifts pretty much in plain sight in the office stacked up with the rest of the boxes from Dh's business. He's never guessed that his gifts were in there.

 

[piglet50]

i sure was. my mom worked split shifts and i had a lot of time home alone. scotch tape was narrow and different back in the 60's and was easy to pull off and reattach. i could open gifts and re-wrap really well. i always knew what i was getting. i did alright until little sister came along (she was 8 years younger) and was able to tell on me.

 

[crz4mm2]

One year my sister (older) and I, unwrapped all our gifts under the tree (except one) and re-wrapped them......
Come Christmas morning, the ONE gift we hadn't unwrapped was gone, replaced with a joint gift for the two of us.
When we opened that joint gift, it was a box of wood.....
No one said anything for awhile, and then Dad said "huh wonder why you got a box of sticks????"
We never did it again.

 

[pansmermaidzlagoon]

only once - then realized it ruined one of the best parts of Xmas for me: the anticipation! Never did again.

 

[pixie dust 112]

I tried to snoop, but I could never, ever find where my parents hid the presents!

Years later when all of us kids were grown ups, I was looking for somewhere to store something for my Mom and my brother said, "Why don't you put it in the closet where Mom and Dad used to keep the Christmas presents?"

I couldn't believe it my parents house had a closet where the outside just looks like wall panels. The panels just lifted off and there was a HUGE closet! Everyone else in the family just laughed at me. Apparently everyone else in the family knew about it!

 

[pixiewings71]

Nope, never. My kids don't either. We like surprises too much.

 

[Lassie Lynne]

Not a snooper, but I have a horrible habit of being a package-guesser....I would always slight shake, squeeze, etc packages and then announce what they were before I opened them Christmas Eve...drove my Mother nuts. The funny thing is, my Dad is the same exact way.

One year she really tricked us.......she didn't put names on our gifts and put them all under the tree. Too bad she forgot who's gifts belong to who and it was an interesting christmas that year, my brother really didn't like the pink sweater he opened .

 

[southern_redhead]

I don't think I ever really did. I remember undoing the end of a few presents to see if I could peek at the end of the box and find out what it was (but I always picked shirt boxes LOL) The sad truth is I was an only child/only grandchild and I got pretty much everything I asked for and then some. So basically I was just being suprised with which package contained what gift.

Now, my kids? They would TOTALLY snoop. So far I have been lucky and they don't go down to my basement closet. I kept the presents in big rubbermaid totes so even if they wandered down there they'd really have to take time looking. Then, when most things were in I wrapped them LOL