Non Santa presents under the tree?

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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?

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.

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.

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!

All under the tree here

And stockings hang up by the fireplace too

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

All the presents go under the tree from the minute they are wrapped/handed to you before Christmas Day. Santa then adds his when he delivers on Christmas Eve. Your DP sounds like a bit of a Grinch.

We did presents under the tree until we got our dog , then stopped because he unwrapped without reading labels . He sadly passed away in November but in the intervening 14 years we’ve acquired various Christmas animals that live under one tree and a Christmas train that sits under the other . There is no right or wrong and it doesn’t matter .

I agree with @Katy232425 , not worth falling out over.

DH and I both had very different Christmases as children, so we created new family traditions and agreed on different way of doing things for our own family. Nothing is right or wrong except perhaps where Santa gets all the credit for every gift your DC receives from anyone, as per another thread

We have presents from everyone but Santa under the tree, but tbh this is one of the only things my husband and I agreed on when we first had children - he wanted them to lay out pillowcases for their presents from Santa, whereas in our house Santa's presents were under the tree and in stockings. We've blended our ideas over the years (pillowcases and stockings!) and no doubt our kids will grow up and argue with their partners about whose tradition is right :)

Surely this is what the tree is for! It collects presents over the course of December, and then looks naked for the week after Christmas as a result

All presents under the tree as they are wrapped. Everyone can feel, shake, sniff etc as long as no wrappings are disturbed. If a present is opened before Christmas Day, you don’t get it - the threat was enough that I as a child and DC from toddler age never went hunting for presents or prematurely opening the ones under the tree.

Stockings always included books, puzzles, chocolate to occupy Christmas morning.

The appearance of a tree is massively improved by a stack of nicely wrapped presents. And why bother to wrap if they’re not on display? You might as well hand them over in a supermarket bag.

We never put presents under the tree before the big day growing up because we had cats and dogs who would attack them. Even now, we have a cat who would delight in trying to dig her claws into wrapping paper 😂

Father Christmas delivers presents to the stocking. All other presents under the tree, or at least until two years ago when we got a dog.

This is a compromise we had to work out! Growing up, presents appeared under the tree throughout December as and when they were received or wrapped. For DH, nothing was under tree until they came down Christmas morning and all the presents had appeared.

We did it my way for a couple of years and then last year I agreed to try it his way and I actually really liked it! No worries about the dog eating any of it or 2yo getting into parcels etc. And it did make the entering the living room on Christmas morning a lot more exciting I think. So we are doing it again this year.

This is a compromise we had to work out! Growing up, presents appeared under the tree throughout December as and when they were received or wrapped. For DH, nothing was under tree until they came down Christmas morning and all the presents had appeared.

We did it my way for a couple of years and then last year I agreed to try it his way and I actually really liked it! No worries about the dog eating any of it or 2yo getting into parcels etc. And it did make the entering the living room on Christmas morning a lot more exciting I think. So we are doing it again this year.

Sorry, double post!

I often see people having presents under the tree for weeks. No wonder there is a spate of break ins when Christmas presents are as accessible as this.

Sorry to be late to the party. I've never heard of Santa presents.
Aren't presents from relatives and friends.
Sorry to be a bit thick.

Never under the tree until Christmas morning. Santa only delivers one present and we put the others under the tree, but it’s kept out of sight until Christmas morning so there’s no temptation to open them.