Where do you hide your children's christmas presents?

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DD has just found one of her christmas presents

I hadn't hidden it all that well to be fair - it was in the blanket box in our bedroom. I need a better hiding place! The problem is our house is small and hiding places are few and far between...

I wrap the kids presents up as soon as i've brought them home.

Attic. Although one year I left some in a suitcase in the hall waiting to go up in the loft and nobody checked it, they were everywhere else but it was so obvious it just didn't cross their minds. They are always checking my wardrobe and dh's garage but I've told them everything is at bid dd's house, little ones very keen to go visit her at every opportunity

Hidden in suitcase on wardrobe, wrapped up under bed, also under my 2nd desk at work and in the store cupboard too!
Presents for DS1 (14) have been sent to grandparents house as he more savvy than 5yo ds2!

In the downstairs loo - we've never used it and I don't even think the DC's know it's there.

I don't. My DD knows where they are and she can peak if she wants to but it will ruin the suprise and build up and the day if she does. She is 3 and has shown remarkable self restrainst so far (I like to buy early)

In her bedroom. We co sleep so the little so and so never goes in there! :o

Mine are all in my office at work, which I only share with one other (trustworthy) person. I have NO space at home for any more stuff!

sum04 - you are extremely organised I'm impressed and a little jealous

Our loft is so disorganised and rammed with stuff that anything that goes up there usually can't be found again

I'm liking the suitcase idea - if I zip it, buckle it and lock it DD couldn't open it even if she wanted to

susie - when DD found the present I told her not to look in the blanket box again, but this upset her as she thought she might look by "mistake" - obviously no restraint there but at least she's honest

Never had the problem with DD. Lulled into false sense of security - DS found one of his presents that I had tucked away in my bedroom. He's only 2 and I told him that they were going to be sent away to father christmas and he believed it, but keeps asking when father christmas is bringing his firemen back . Now all hidden in my bedroom cupboard, which has a handle too high to reach. Not sure what I will do when they get taller!

Loft and a cupboard in the eaves of our bedroom.

Eaves cupboards in the loft. I told my 6 and 8 yr dd's that if they were to go looking and find them, I would give them to some othr children so they are quite good and like to be surprised.

i even on 2 occassions made them sit in Argos facing the other way with their heads buried in the Argos catologue whilst I was buying them during the 3 for 2 deals a month ago, so they can be trusted.

I have a divan bed (all I could afford when I moved in) and DS doesn't know but I cut the fabric on one side (the side next to the wall) and all things xmassy get hidden in my bed! It's quite a big space and he doesn't even realise.

The cupboard under the stairs. Its quite big and it goes round a corner IYSWIM so is quite dark and spidery in the depths, hence no child will go anywhere near it!

Also in the built-in cupboards above the our wardrobes which I can only just reach by standing on a chair.

My DD is too young to really be looking around (I hope) so they are all in our spare room. But My brother has had to ask our parents to keep them at there house.

on top of our triple wardrobe, will rethink this when they're bigger.

In the wardrobe. Ds still has a firm belief in FC so it wouldn't occur to him to look for presents.

Attic, box on top of wardrobe (need a ladder to reach it), cupboard in spare room - but the best hiding place is Granny's house.

If you have a DC who deliberately searches for hidden presents, maybe you should arrange to swap with a friend and hide each other's presents - that would really confuse them....

Good question. Have just had the same problem. My DD age 6 has just found her presents under my bed (didn't think she knew we had a divan) and i am now in an dilemma myself as they are all her stocking pressies from "santa". I only found out that she had seen them when we finished the faraway tree book and she said she wanted to read the next one to which i replied "make sure you ask santa and write that down". She then said, "oh i don't need to it's under your bed" - cue shocked splutterings from me. I did manage to say that they will have to go to someone else now as the surprise for her has gone but that doesn't solve the problem that if she saw that book she definitely saw everything else and now i have no surprise santa pressies aaarrrggh!

DS' birthday present is under my bed.

Last year I stashed them in/on my wardrobe but have sinced moved and my wardrobe (built in)is in the dc room.

So this year I ordered online and got them delivered to my parents' house

At the top of our wardrobes & in the attic.

On top of wardrobe in plain brown boxes, sandwiched between my sweaters in my wardrobe and in our suitcases. TBH they never try too hard to find them - I think my DDs like the surprise. As a child, no pressie was safe from me - I could sniff them out anywhere.

Under the bed.

DD1 (2.3) was caught playing with a rattle bought for DD2 (5mths) the other day that she spotted under the bed but didnt see anything else under there that was for her. Most stuff is in bags or boxes and thankfully shes not one to start snooping. Im sure as they get older we will need to think of other places.

DD1 was with me when i bought one of her presents the other week. Was in the sale so had to grab it then. Its a hobby horse. She was beaming and insisted holding it. Thankfully when we got in I left it in the boot and bought it in after bedtime. She hasnt mentioned since so think ive got away with it! :)

Small things - at the bottom of my knicker drawer - can't imagine dd risking her life in there

Bigger things - in the high up cupboard that I can only open by balancing on tippy toes on a chair.

Mind you, when packages turn up & dd asks what they are, I always just say 'work stuff' & she asks no more, we run our own business so have endless boring packages of things like envelopes etc (and dd has yet to discover that Viking often include free biscuits )

Smaller stuff in the drawer under my bed. Tis an old divan so have a trim on it, don't think DCs know it's there.

Got stuff delivered to work last year and have been known to leave things in the boot of the car until they're in bed.

Black bags in the messy cupboard under the stairs seem to go unnoticed too.

My favourite so far was wrapping DSS's PS3 in DD's wrapping paper (as well) so that he ignored it on Christmas morning until she took her layer off

In our room, in the wardrobe all hidden in boxes the wardrobe is too full. Ds saw his elc happyland rocket though and now everytime he hears christmas he says space rocket for my christmas