Where do you stash your stuff?

[Aardvarks]

When the kids were little

1 Small items............loft above the garage, acess only via a separate step ladder

2 Large items.......stored at grandparents in the next town

3 Very large items........needing truck delivery and assembly.....in the garage of my neighbour next door........his kids were adults and left home.

 

[Aardvarks]

It's not particularly unique, but the man that we bought this house from made use of anything resembling wasted space and built storage there. Where the hot water tank is in my bathroom he built a cabinet that goes all the way to the ceiling. There is room in the lower half to store things in there by the tank itself (that's where I keep the extra leaf to my table and some other things) and above that it is a separate area with its own door. It is about a four foot cube. That's where I stash the Christmas presents. They might be able to get up there, but it would be really hard to be sneaky about it and besides that I need a chair to get up there myself, so they'd have to be pretty creative building their tower of trouble.

Ahem.............err..................erm..........cough....................have you though about passing his forwarding address on to the FBI??

 

[golfgal]

Ya know...maybe I should swap with my neighbor...she has boys...I have girls. I think it would be interesting to see the kids faces if they snooped. Barbies for the boys, transformer for the girls.

This is what my parents did when we were growing up.

I have the bins that I store my Christmas decorations in that after I decorate go into the garage, I have found that those bins are the best place to hide stuff!

I do this too. I don't think our kids have ever found their presents. Last year I kept the good ones, their IPods at my office. This year we are getting a large TV, that is currently under a blanket in DH's closet. I am not holding out that the kids won't find it though.

 

[ibouncetoo]

When we were kids, the gifts were placed on the ping-pong table in the basement and covered with a sheet! We NEVER looked (well, at least I didn't). We were excited to know, but didn't want to ruin Christmas morning. Although, I don't know where Dad hid the bicycles the year we all got one...including Mom!

 

[Froggyswife]

We have no space either especially since Frog turned our own small out building into a workshop for his lathe. We have an attic just no access to it other than a small hole big enough for one person to squeeze through. (one of these days he will fix that but I doubt it.) Thankfully we have his grandmothers place accross the street that we rent out and there is a large storage space there we use half and the renter uses the other half.(only rent to friends and family)

 

[rentayenta]

Do you have a really unique stash spot?

Nope. I cleared out 2 dresser drawers and have tons in there. I also have goodies in the back of my closet. We have a huge walk in closet and they have no reason to go back there. They know if they get caught snooping then they lose. Plus they also appreciate the surprise aspect of Hanukkah and enjoy that.

 

[Kim in TN]

Not very original, but in the attic in a suitcase.

If its something big we try to wait closer to Christmas to purchase it and then we just keep the ladder to the attic folded up.

 

[lvanleer]

It's just my DH and myself....I hide his presents in my craft room with the door closed along with the presents for our 5 four legged kids(cats) since they snooped in their bag and found their catnip toys on Friday.....now they can't get to them.

 

[iggbees]

i don't know where my boyfriend hides stuff, but he should be in the cia. i can never find anything and i'm the worlds worst snoop! we got a package that he was shady about (so i knew it was my christmas gift). it was about the size of a shoe box that holds boots, he brought it upstairs and i went up 5 min after and it was gone! we have no hiding places upstairs, so i have no idea where the heck he hid it! he also one time told me that he hid some jewelry he bought be behind the books on the bookshelf. i would have never guessed that place!

 

[Lib E]

We store them at our neighbors house. They are elderly and in a big house. They had no kids, and really enjoy being part of the Santa process.

Santa's identity was revealed to me and my siblings at a very young age, I think the oldest of us was around 6, because we found unwrapped presents that ended up being addressed from Santa.

 

[HSMndLKfan92]

My mom stores the presents in her messy closet. Once I found them under the guest room bed.

 

[KerriSue]

I have the bins that I store my Christmas decorations in that after I decorate go into the garage, I have found that those bins are the best place to hide stuff!

Me too!!! I have done this every year and not once have I had a problem.

 

[disykat]

Most of it goes up in the attic space above the garage. We've never allowed them up there, but they've reached the age where they are capable of getting up there if they decide to. It's accessed by a pull down ladder that is a little scary the first couple of times you use it so I guess I'm counting on that keeping them from snooping. They've figured out we hide stuff up there just because we are insistant that they can't go up there!

Big stuff goes in our neighbor's garage. If I have little stuff that I'm too lazy to take upstairs, it goes in my underwear drawer. I have boys and they are terrified of my underwear so I know it's safe. They don't want to see it, I know they'd never touch it!

 

[Bluestars]

We have a closet in our laundry room with a door that locks. I live with a family of snoopers.

 

[kristilew]

I have walk-in attic space behind my bedroom, and keep the gifts in a box in there.

But we also have a firm rule that any gift that is found before Christmas (or birthday, or whatever) goes back to the store and is not replaced, so we don't have a snooping problem. You're not even allowed to shake wrapped gifts here. No touching!

 

[C.Ann]

My scrapbook room in the basement - in totes - that are marked as though they were my scrapbook supplies.. DGD never, ever goes in there without my permission and if other kids are here, we lock the door..

 

[matthew&haleysmom]

Part of the stuff goes in our attic. We have a pull down access and the kids would never venture up there, yet! I leave some gifts at my moms. Our kids go there daily; however, I put them in my brother's room. My brother "lives" with my mom, but not really. He is in the military and has only visited a couple of times over the past several years. He still stores stuff in his room and he has a padlock on his door! My kids never go never his room unless he is home! Perfect hiding place!!!

 

[JVL1018]

Whenever I order stuff online, I keep the boxes.
At Christmastime, anything I buy in a store, I put in those boxes and then tape them closed with packing tape. Anything I order online, I open up, check to make sure it's right and then seal back up again.Then I just stack them in my closet. The kids have NO clue. They have never realized there are Christmas gifts in them, and never pay them any attention because there is always a box or two in my closet.

 

[CF'er]

Until my kids found my hiding place.... under our pedastal water bed.

The year my son got his 4 wheeler we hid it at a friends house and they brought it over early Christmas morning.

Now it's in the breakroom at hubby's office. They are a small office and we're the only ones with kids. lol

 

[WDWMom]

Right now I have gifts in my hope chest. I never use it for anything except as a table for pics and such. I just have to clear it off to get things in and out. Only about 5 things on it so no big deal.

Now, if I could only find a great place to hide the Christmas cookies. That one I have yet to discover.