Christmas Present Opening Etiquette

[Baycob]

Do you open all presents no matter who they are from on Xmas day ? ( YABNU)

Or do you open them as you get them? (YABU)

Santa visit presents opened then.
Presents sent to us... Christmas Day.
We often see family between Christmas and New year, so those presents then.

If Dh I going away for work just before Christmas or Birthday etc, we move the whole celebration to be earlier.

Depends what the giver says really. Most people like to see them get opened. Reactions etc. I'm not bothered either way

Father Christmas presents and presents for whoever is in the house get opened on Christmas Day.
Presents from everyone else go under the tree and get opened on Boxing Day.

Christmas Day or after, so if we see family on boxing Day and we exchange gifts we'd open them there and then not wait and take them home, if before they'd go under the tree until Christmas Day (other than work secret Santa when everyone usually opens theirs at lunch)

Christmas Day too

If we are not with them, we tend to see family AFTER Christmas , not before, so by then it's fine to open presents.

It's quite nice to have something to look forward to!

In normal times:
Christmas eve- us, my mum, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins get together and open gifts from each other there and then

Christmas Day- open presents from santa and parents at our house

Only other gifts opened at a differnet time might be a secret santa, or if meeting a family member/friend after CHristmas- then we'd open at the time.

Christmas day or spaced over the days that follow if there are too many / DC over excited and about to crash.

We do stockings and gifts between the 5 of us first thing then breakfast (apart from a cup of tea - that’s needed as despite ours being 18+ we still have to get up at 8am!).
Then after the main course we pause and do ’other’ gifts from anyone we are hosting and people we won’t see. Then pudding!

When the children were little we staggered it out over days to give them time to play with their presents. Each night we’d put under the tree presents for the following day. It started because they were overwhelmed by the sheer number (certain family members went ridiculously overboard for a while but we worked on that!) and the desire to play.

It also meant the joy lasted for 4 or 5 days. Win-win for us.

As a child, we always opened ours on Christmas Eve after church.

I am from a very ordinary lower middle class Scottish background and had no idea that it was considered pretentious until I joined Mumsnet.

Xmas day, unless the giver wants them to be opened sooner

Usually all on Christmas morning barring controversial Christmas Eve box. However with 7 DC I'm going to try to stagger it throughout the day this year a little because it's just chaos

If we were just passed some presents when we saw someone or were posted presents we wait til Christmas day. If we are having an early Christmas celebration with family we would open them in front of each other. It's nice to see people open your presents and it makes Christmas day less overwhelming if some presents have already been opened.

@topcat2014

Children opening presents before Christmas day is shocking!!

Normally when given so person sees them open plus on Christmas day they get alot so they would forget what was off who.