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MotherForkinShirtBalls · 28/12/2019 21:11

The Lego annuals that were supposed to go into the dcs' stockings 🤦 In the same bag were bags of sweets and two other books. I'm happy to jump on the haribo grenade and the books will keep for birthday presents, but I'm now going to have to find a reason to give the kids more bloody presents (the annuals) before the end of the week!

I guess it balances out the Minecraft toy I forgot to give ds last year. Luckily it worked for this year's list.

Anyone else found very well hidden gifts?

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StealthPussy · 28/12/2019 21:14

Electric toothbrushes that i had wrapped to go in stockings as fillers. I have just given them to them like a normal person instead!

Goingtobeoldearly · 28/12/2019 21:16

Aww you could give them as new years eve presents. Maybe it will be the start of a tradition, giving an annual on NYE.

sproutsgalore · 28/12/2019 21:21

Maybe it will be the start of a tradition, giving an annual on NYE.

^ Sheer genius.

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MotherForkinShirtBalls · 28/12/2019 21:23

Jaysus, another tradition to try to remember?? Since I clearly can't do Christmas right, I'm.not sure I can be trusted with that sort of responsibility 😁

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FairyJuice · 28/12/2019 21:28

I'm the opposite op, have a few stocking fillers that were nowhere to be found on Xmas Eve and they still haven't shown up 🙈 I'm guessing I'll find them during the summer, far away from Xmas/birthdays/any other celebration that requires a pressie.

tobee · 28/12/2019 21:30

I especially bought my dsis and d parents Christmas cards. Find them in a bag with the sellotape I'd bought and was subsequently looking for when present wrapping. Had to use some stringy old sellotape instead.

Blanketed · 28/12/2019 21:33

You could leave clues in the Christmas tree so that they help you take off the decorations and it's like a treasure hunt where the outcome will be the books. You get help with the taking down of the tree they get a reward. Win win.

TheReluctantCountess · 28/12/2019 21:35

We forgot one small present this year (a dominoes set, which was just a stocking filler really), and that’s bloody good for us!

TheReluctantCountess · 28/12/2019 21:35

When ds was smaller, and still believed, we used to leave a forgotten present out, from the elves, to say well done for looking after his Christmas gifts so far.

WorraLiberty · 28/12/2019 21:38

I did this last year.

I bought the kids a Christmas present and didn't remember it was in a box on top of the wardrobe, until the following Summer!

Shame really. They would have loved that little kitten...

PickwickThePlockingDodo · 28/12/2019 21:40

GrinGrinGrin

SallyLovesCheese · 28/12/2019 21:41

I know I bought DH another small gift but I have no idea where it is. I suspect it went in the rubbish, as the last I remember I slipped it into the middle of a magazine to hide it as he was coming in. But I thought I'd moved it elsewhere but it hasn't come to light yet.

ItWentInMyEye · 28/12/2019 21:43

I know I bought my boys some T-shirt's and a few cars for youngest DS's stocking.... still haven't found them 🤦🏼‍♀️

Saucery · 28/12/2019 21:44

If it’s a Leap Year, Old Father Time leaves an extra present in your slipper at the bottom of the stairs on NYE.

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MotherForkinShirtBalls · 28/12/2019 21:50

Grin Worra

Dh's family have an incredibly convoluted system for gift giving so I think I'll tell them the annuals should have been part of those presents. I really don't want to set any sort of precedent for another gifting system ...luckily dd reminded me this year that I'm the one who gives them new PJs on Christmas Eve, not Santa. (Aka, I'm bad at this shit)

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orchidsarebeautiful · 28/12/2019 21:52

Can you wrap them and somehow hide them in the tree?

Then you can say there is a present that's been left in the tree and we must have missed it.

My mother always hide little extras in the tree when we were children. She said they were little surprises for after Christmas.

WifOfBif · 28/12/2019 21:54

GrinGrinGrin worra

willdoitinaminute · 28/12/2019 21:54

When DS was small he noticed a box of celebrations in the spare room on top of a bookcase. I was convinced it was an empty box I’d saved to use for food storage and assured him it was empty. Twelve months on I had found a use for it, it was full of celebrations.
I have form for hiding Christmas food to stop DH and DS from demolishing it pre-Christmas.

elmosducks · 28/12/2019 21:55

I just found 30 barbies and 50 card that I bought for shoebox giftboxes that we made in November...

Drum2018 · 28/12/2019 21:56

I'd put them in the garden somewhere and tell the kids they must have fallen off santas sleigh.

RickOShay · 28/12/2019 21:59

Me too!
It’s annoying me, it’s a book called why is snot green? Where have I stashed it?

WorraLiberty · 28/12/2019 22:03

it’s a book called why is snot green? Where have I stashed it?

Where does anyone stash their snot?

Aragog · 28/12/2019 22:04

A few years back we found a couple of dd's smaller wrapped presents at the back of the tree when we were taking it down early in the new year.
She thought it was fab to suddenly gain two new presents!

Dollymixture22 · 28/12/2019 22:06

Santa would occasionally drop some of our presents in the garden or on the roof. Mum and dad would fond them a few days later.

TrainspottingWelsh · 28/12/2019 22:07

If they still believe could you push them under furniture in the room Father Christmas left their presents and then 'find' them?