Do you put your Christmas presents under the tree once they are wrapped?

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This was always the tradition in my house growing up, presents were placed under the tree until Christmas Day.

Dh said you shouldn’t because if the house got broken into, they’d know where to find the presents.

I can’t get that thought out of my head now.

Do you?

Yes, but no young kids here anymore so no need to hold back on the Father Christmas presents til Christmas day.

I wrap everything and pop them in gift bags under the tree. Mostly to stop access for our wire-chewing cat!

i usually do, but then I always struggle to water the tree. So this year, I’ll be holding out and putting them out as late as possible

I stick them behind the Christmas tree, then arrange them at the front on Christmas Eve, as I've been known to put wrapped up presents in such 'good' hiding places, it's been a year or two before they get found.

No I don’t . We all work outside the house full time.

This 🫣

I have two boys under 5. Half presents are under the tree right now and the other half aren’t (due to space) but they love seeing the pretty wrapping and haven’t messed with them. Father Christmas only brings one special present for each of my children that comes in special Father Christmas wrapping. It’s important to me my children know to be thankful and grateful to the people that actually buy them the gifts (us, they get a singling gift for each other, grandparents, aunts etc) rather than a fictional man taking all the credit 🤣 They still believe and it’s still magical but helpful to explain he brings one gift and nothing too expensive. I always felt always for the kids growing up that for barely anything and others got PlayStation’s, designer clothing etc from Father Christmas…especially when it’s based on behaviour. We also do the angel tree each year and my children pick out gifts for a child similar age and my 4 1/2yr old is already starting to grasp that Christmas is about blessing others, being grateful and sometimes we can play Father Christmas and secretly gift others too. Just an alternative view for anyone who may be wondering how to do it :)

What does this mean? 🤣

Yes, under the tree as they are wrapped. I love seeing them piled up.

A burgler is in your house to steal from you and will do it regardless of if things are out or not

There’s just us in our house but from when our DC were small, the presents don’t go under the tree until just before we go to bed on Xmas Eve. Partly the burglary aspect but also DH would be picking them up and trying to guess what each gift is 🙄

Dog + chocolate = no

They'll be wrapped and ready, stored out of harm's way. They'll get put under the tree when the stockings get filled, and Ddog will be shut in our room with us overnight.

Our children (aged 20+ ) get to come down to the wonder of filled stockings on the hearth and presents under the tree! They bring theirs to us down in the morning when they wake to me playing loud Christmas music into their rooms.

They all get out away and brought out overnight. That's the magic

I don’t like leaving presents on view when we are out all day. Not that difficult really.

Yes, always under the tree, until we got a dog and then it stopped.

I do now they are teens (as I wrap) but I don’t start wrapping till mid December.

When they were small they went out Christmas Eve night as they couldn’t be trusted not to peek!

No! They appear under the tree on Christmas day!

But it’s much harder for them if they are not on view. Common sense.

Yes. We are now all adults! We still do “stockings” for adult DDs though!

Common sense would be if you’ve ever had your home broken into they don’t care and will ransack the house looking for anything. Otherwise things like a jewellery box or a closed bedroom door would help.

FC only brings stockings in this family.

We put presents under the tree on Christmas Eve. I did it that way growing up and now my children help me bring them down on Christmas Eve too. They love doing it and it’s part of the pre-Christmas excitement. On our house. Santa does stockings only and presents are from the actual giver

I don’t put dh and kids under the tree. But yeah everyone else’s. But he’s made a good point.

Burglars stops you putting presents under your tree? Really?
Burglars will literally ransack your house - they’re going to be far more interested in handbags, money, keys, easily identifiable high value goods than some random unknown wrapped items under your tree and they aren’t scared to come looking for them throughout your house. If they ARE especially in the business of stealing Christmas presents I’d far rather they just came into my living room, took the lot and fucked off and didn’t wander around my whole house frankly.

We put things under the tree a) once it’s up (2 weeks today) and b) once they’re wrapped (probably more like 3 weeks today).

My daughter's birthday is 22nd December, so we have a tradition of putting any wrapped presents (either to each other or relatives, or ones relatives have sent / left with us early) under the tree on 23rd, once her birthday has 'finished'. It's a nice little tradition that happened organically and the sight of presents under the tree sort of signals the proper start of Christmas. The only things put out Christmas eve night are stockings and one main present for each child which are from Santa.

Before that, once wrapped they are usually in a visible cardboard box upstairs somewhere (apart from Santa of course) so I suppose a burglar would easily find anyway. I only hide before wrapped, and then only the ones for people who lived here. We aren't often in the habit of giving extremely expensive presents though anyway.

If the DC get a present from a friend/family, it goes under the tree until Christmas Day. I sometimes put DH's presents under there when they're wrapped, and he does the same with mine.

I put the DC's presents (all from us, Santa brings stockings) under on Christmas Eve. Mostly for the excitement on the morning, but also because they'll be poking at them all the time, wanting to open them, etc. DD I could probably trust but DS would drive me nuts! They're 11 and 7 and I think we'll be sticking to doing it like this for awhile yet...

My DM used to do Christmas Eve, but there was one year when I was about 6, where she put everything under the tree a week before and it made me feral (apparently). She never did that again!