Where do you put all of the presents you have bought?

[ChristmasIsComing2024]

I have done a lot of my Christmas shopping already but I still need around 10-15 more presents plus stocking fillers and stuff for Christmas Eve boxes!! I also have a few birthdays coming up before Christmas as well!!
I have filled an ottoman with presents for my partner and child and I have bags of stuff on top of the wardrobe for everyone I don’t live with and there’s no more space 🙈🙈

Suitcases in the loft!

I hide them in my handbags which I don't use.

In bags in the eaves

In the loft. I take a day off mid December to wrap.

In the cupboard under the stairs.

It seems my problem is having a loft we can’t access and not having a cupboard under the stairs 🙈

I bought a large garden storage box which I keep in the garage with a lock on. The kids so far have thought it is just more of their dad’s gardening rubbish 😬

I always kept them in the holiday suitcases in the garage. Put the little travel locks on so no wee snoopers could get in!

I have a home office. I typically put them in reusable carrier bags so I don’t lose track of them and stick them in a cabinet.

In the Ali barber washing basket in my bedroom with a few clothes on top. No one ever goes in there as they have their own washing baskets.

Do you mean so no-one finds them? Or in terms of space?

For hiding purposes I found the cleaning cupboard, airing cupboard or take the bottom drawer out of a chest of drawers, put presents in bottom (there's usually a few inches of space) and then put the drawer back in.

If it's the second then I've never bought so much that I don't have room.

I don't live with anyone I give presents to, so I could basically stack them in the living room if I wanted! But actually they go up into the loft, which is a real room so I don't nearly kill myself clambering up a ladder with arms full of boxes. I order stuff and then when boxes arrive they go straight up and quite often I don't do more than just open the box to check contents are what I thought and intact.

It does mean when I go up to start wrapping, it's all a complete surprise to me, as I've forgotten what I've bought by then.

Good question OP.
If only I could remember!

In a storage bag under my bed

Loft or underneath my bed in the storage space in boxes. Particularly my son is very nosy about what presents have been bought so I have to only keep his in the loft far far back!

Scrap the Christmas Eve 'boxes' for a start and shop mindfully and minimally, it will help more than your storage 'issue'

I have a large kallax unit in the bedroom, and on top of this I have eight of the large patterned cardboard boxes that The Works sell. Four of these are kept empty for the purpose of storing birthday and Christmas presents. Most presents fit in these, any that don’t go at the back of my wardrobe.

I usually put them in my wardrobe but can't always get them all in so I'll hide them somewhere where I won't be able to remember.

It's a family joke that I'll lose a present. I've recently found a stocking filler for DH with a use by 2023 date.

Christmas Eve boxes are just new pjs, a snack, a drink, a bauble and a small activity /book/bath bomb to use on the night. I then use them to store baubles and Christmas decorations (we don’t have many) throughout the year.

There's always one (or more than one) who will come onto the Christmas Threads to chastise about too many presents and "more tat" or "Is This A Thing?"
Christmas Eve Boxes are lovely to get them winding down, a bath, new pyjamas, book, drink , biscuit , teeth then bed . It's a nice Tradition and while you want to do this for your DC and they appreciate it then enjoy it ,.

My present haul in in my wardrobe , so far I;ve bought my DDs presents (DS likes money and his birthday is December )
I stopped the Christmas Eve Hampers in favour of Dec 1st Boxes when they got older .
They have new pyjamas (winter ones but I have Christmas pyjamas for DD this year too)
Toiletries/skincare
Nail varnishes
Hair products
She uses them throughout December in the lead up.
Christmas mug (tradition)
I buy loungwear and a years worth of socks/underwear for DS

They get presents for Christmas bit it's a quieter affair .
DD Christmas present is gold/diamond stud earrings .and some make-up .
It means I get these wrapped (just in tissue paper ) and a gift bag that appears every year .and it clears the space .
I recycle their old , useable PJs and underwear .

Totally agree.
Mine have theirs waiting under the Christmas tree on Christmas Eve when we get in from the panto.

The theatre is an hour’s drive home and they chat in the back of the car about if the fairies will have been again this year 🥰
Totally, totally worth it.

My wardrobe, although we’ve just moved so it’s now a spare wardrobe. DD is 15 though so no snoopers to worry about anymore! I also have a colour coded spreadsheet to keep on top of them 🫣😂

We have smaller cupboards above the normal cupboards (to the roof). So I put the presents up there on my side (where I have one suitcase). I only buy for the kids and my husband and not particularly big so there's not too much to store.

Same

Top shelf of our (weirdly big) airing cupboard, with our summer duvet and spare bedding etc in front!