If you were so organised you bought presents in the January sale and hid them in a safe place....

[FenellaMaxwell]

What might that place look like.....?!?

When you find out can you tell me? I distinctly remember buying my DD a reduced joules Xmas top in the summer but I can't find it anywhere!!

I found my nephews board game I bought and hid for last year (and couldn't find in time) so at least I can give him that!

More helpful ideas and places I have searched:

Under bed drawers
Wrapping paper drawer
Loft hatch
Home office cupboard
Bottom wardrobe
Shelf in wardrobe

Good luck!

Every year the same for me. Don’t worry though, you’ll find in two days after Christmas.

Normally, top shelf of the corner wardrobe.

Next places to look would be all the other top shelves in the bedroom.

Under the blankets (we never use blankets) in the otherwise-unused drawer in husband's wardrobe.

One of the plastic boxes under the bed.

If it's bulky, in the loft in a black sack.

I have a gift in my stash that I bought for dd in Jan 2017. This might be the year she actually gets it. Then again ....

In the boxes of Christmas decorations.

Or hiding at the bottom of a box with other random stuff on top of it in a cupboard or the garage.

If it's small, hiding at the back of your underwear drawer.

Cupboard under the stairs/odd corners?

Drawer under the bed and then they inevitably fall out and need to be dug out.

Don't ask me, I have just found the missing birthday present from last year, in a box, in the kitchen cupboard.

I'm sure I've got lots of presents and cards up in the loft, I can't actually get up there but DH assures me there's nothing there. I'm going to have to conquer my fear of the ladder (it's quite high and I'm quite short) to see for myself. I reckon I'll probably find a stash going back at least five years.

My Mum does this every year!
Is it in a bag with the Christmas decorations?

I hide presents under the bed, in my wardrobe hidden under clothes. In my suitcase. Under the stairs. Behind/on top of wardrobe. Do you have a spare bedroom, if you do check in there. The garage? Out buildings, shed? Utility room?

I just received a Christmas bauble for my birthday as DH ‘lost’ it last Christmas. Now we have to make sure it doesn’t disappear again before the tree goes up.

Places to look
Car boot
Behind the sofa
In a bag hanging on a hook on the back of a door
Blanket box

My mum recently gave my dd a purse that she bought for me when I was about 12 and put in a safe place. Took 25 years to surface!
Good luck!

I can unhappily report they are in none of those places.

@livingthegoodlife the missing stash includes a Joules top here too - maybe it’s their fault?!

Airing cupboard

Parents house

Under spare room bed

God knows, I found dd’s onesie I bought her for her first Christmas last week, 2 years late!

Behind the sofa

Under the sofa

On top of display cabinet

Under chest of drawers

On top of the kitchen units? Garage/shed/neighbours house?!

Probably in with two sets of bedding ( DD grey fleecy KS and DS red double so fairly hefty sized )

I am convnced they are in the loft .
DH has looked but cannot find them.
They aren't in the small bedroom/ junk room
Under any beds
In wardrobes
On wardrobes

I will shove him back in the loft until he finds them

The loft or top of bedroom wardrobe - right on top where I have to get a ladder to see what I've hidden. If in the loft they will be forgotten about until they've grown out of the item!

Airing cupboard
On top of a wardrobe
Under the sofa.

I sometimes think the safest place to hide things is in the middle of the living room as no one in this house can find things they've left on the living room floor...

I keep a list of what’s in the loft hidden inside the airing cupboard, and if I’m super organised, write which numbered plastic storage box it’s in to make it easier to find. Saves having lots of little bits hidden all over the house, in case one is accidentally found by the DCs.