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Non Santa presents under the tree?

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Builtforspeednotcomfort · 24/12/2024 15:46

My DP and I have very difftent ideas about Christmas presents. I like to put the presents around the tree, how we had it as children ( obviously Santa presents were in a sack at the end of our beds). DP wants them out of sight until.Christmas morning and never around the tree! DP gets annoyed when I make a compromise of only presents for family under the tree. Ours out of sight until the morning. For context, no Santa presents as DC's all grown up. We have this same argument every year. Am I being unreasonable?

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HPandthelastwish · 24/12/2024 16:34

Presents from friends and family under the tree as they are received. Presents from me / Santa hidden until Christmas morning

Katy232425 · 24/12/2024 16:32

Honestly not worth an argument over.

Ours vary year to year (generally speaking the person who buys and wraps the gift chooses where it goes) and I really don’t care if the pile is under the tree, beside the tree, next to the sofa or lined up in the hallway. My only rule is I don’t want them in places I’ll trip over them! Some go out ahead of time, some that are fairly large or obvious what they are go out overnight on Christmas itself.

When the children are grown up like yours I’ll probably just stick them all under the tree as I go, but if DH wanted to put them out on Christmas Day artfully arranged in the shape of a snowman on the dining table then I’d happily let him.

Ponderingwindow · 24/12/2024 16:29

Presents under the tree as they are ready. It adds to the excitement. Santa fills stockings by the fireplace and leaves wrapped presents, not sacks.

Ablondiebutagoody · 24/12/2024 16:26

I prefer them all under the tree because it looks nice but also I don't really think it matters

BarbaraHoward · 24/12/2024 16:21

There's no right or wrong.

Ours are little. Santa brings the main present and a sack, obviously they're not out yet.

Gifts from aunts and uncles and indeed among ourselves are out.

Our presents to the DC won't go out til tonight, as much because DC2's box is bigger than DC1's. 😂

Both of your traditions are perfectly reasonable, so try find a compromise.

DappledThings · 24/12/2024 16:18

Stockings appear overnight here and everything else under the tree whenever it arrives or is wrapped so some have been there about a fortnight.

The whole all presents appearing under the tree on Christmas morning is something I've only seen on American tv shows and then heard about on MN

mitogoshigg · 24/12/2024 16:17

And stockings hang up by the fireplace too

mitogoshigg · 24/12/2024 16:17

All under the tree here

OliveWah · 24/12/2024 16:16

Presents from Father Christmas into stockings at the end of the DC's beds once they're asleep.

Presents from everyone except immediate family (me, DH, DD1 & DD2) are placed under the tree as they arrive, but we only put the rest of the presents under the tree on Christmas Eve. The DDs enjoy arranging them, but as our tree is on a big ledge in our huge bay window, I don't really want a tempting array of presents on display to passers-by for longer than necessary!

AngelicInnocent · 24/12/2024 16:15

Everything not from santa goes under the tree. When they were little we didn't put them under the tree until 22nd so it wasn't too long but as they got older, we just put them there as they were wrapped.

TeenToTwenties · 24/12/2024 15:48

When younger we did out of sight as then no one would be tempted to peek.
As they got older presents from outside the household went under the tree as they arrived.
So you are both right.