Best hiding places for presents???

[BabyGiraffes]

I'm fairly safe with a bedroom cupboard this year with my dds aged 4 and 2 but have to have better ideas soon. Any suggestions for a house with zero storage (not attic, basement, shed, garage...)? My parents were brilliant and managed to keep four of us from finding things before Christmas, on some occasions storing larger items with our neighbours ( How unfair! ). In fact, my mum was so good at hiding presents she often forgot them, so there would always be a lovely extra surprise around Easter around Boxing Day...

top of kitchen counter with no wrapping where both DS can clearly see them and start asking akward questions

How about wrapping them, then they'll know there are presents but not who for :) Or you could get a big box from supermarket or diy store and hide the presents in there.

On top of the wardrobe in a massive box!

In a suitcase under the bed? As a layer under your clothes in each drawer of your chest of drawers? Behind the stuff on the top shelf of your wardrobe? In a cardboard box sealed with parcel tape?

In a black bin liner (as long as they do not get put out with the rubbish!) or in the boot of the car.

I use the far corner of a cupboard that rarely get rummaged in because I it so hard to open.

Presents for people other than the children are generally in the easy to find cupboards, that way the children have something to get excited about without seeing anything important.

Excellent ideas... I have carried things around in the boot of my car for months before because I couldn't think of where else to put it (Note to self, must declutter house)

I've got mine in a black bag at the bottom of my wardrobe, under the layer of jumpers and clothes that don't fit me that sit at the bottom. DD1 is 10 this year and she has yet to ever find a present that is hidden there...mostly because they never even think about going looking for them.

Keeping a gift in the car boot backfired on me this year as my DD2 (7) came to help me unpack the shopping and saw the present. One large present is up in the loft, but my loft is mostly given over to my oh's and DD's train sets (joy!) so I keep worrying that they will discover it.

I miss the days when my DD's couldn't read and work out what was in the boxes and the year that I lugged a play kitchen home from woolies with my DD2 in tow, telling her that it was for her cousin when she asked what it was.

When I've had big presents to hide I've either kept them at my Mum's or in our caravan.

Mine are in the garage, sorry. DS never goes in there so that's safe; and DH is one of those people who just doesn't see things, so wouldn't notice if I left them in the middle of the floor. Makes things easier!

Mine are on top of my wardrobe and in the garage inside suitcases.

I'm going to hide my DD's prezzies in her laundry basket....she never goes near it!

I hid my partners in the tumble drier.

As a child my mum once hid mine under my bed, I had the house apart but never found them that year,

Previous to that I think she mainly hid them in a hoover box underneath the stairs/in her wardrobe/in the back of boring kitchen cupboards. (not the ones with cakes in)

I put mine in a big carrier bag, hang it off a coat hanger then put a big winter coat on top.

Mine are master finders though, despite only being 6 and 2 < bitter >

Mine are in my shower cubicle in my ensuite. We prefer the shower in the family bathroom so it is never used.

under the pile of laundry to go upstairs would be good here, as would under the GCSE revision books...

one should hide chocolates in one's tummy, natch

Oh, I've hidden the chocolates very well already

I hide chocolate from DH in the fridge behind the veg but maybe I have food issues

Not much help with bigger presents, sorry!

I hide mine in the bottom of my wardrobe or on top of it as the kids are too small to look up there. When we were kids my sister always used to hunt for her presents, my mum used to wrap them but my sister then started poking a finger through the wrapping! In the end my parents put them in a suitcase with a lock so she couldn't get in

In the pan cupboard!

That one that's right in the corner that you can only use half of!

A winner everytime!

I've bought the Sylvanian Family Regency Hotel (half price Argos) and it's in a carboard box (the SF box inside) and an Argos bag stuck over the writing.
I told DD its a present for DHs computer and she accepted this (9.6 yo). It's in our bedroom, I can't hide a box that size.

Though this morning she was reading one of those Christmas Gift Guides and said "Oh can I have the car? I can't get the hotel because it's £109 "

I don't think she's twigged..

I'm thinking of getting my older dd a (second hand if possible so semi-assembled) large 8ft trampoline for her birthday in the summer. Now, how am I going to hide that???

DH's office

inside our suitcases

not your trampoline BabyG obviously

In next doors house! God I love my neighbours