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where do you hide your gifts?
Published Dec. 2, 2008
Do you remember the scene from National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation where Clark finds those old gifts stuffed in the chimney in the attic? My mom experienced that, herself, last year when she hid one of my gifts. She gave it to me about 2 weeks after Christmas when she finally found it!
When I was a kid, my sister and I would always go on a scavenger hunt through the house in the weeks before Christmas trying to find those secret hiding places for Christmas gifts. One year, we successfully found one of those 3-in-1 pool table things for kids hidden in my parents' closet. Oops!
Another year, my mom hid something in the linen closet by the bathroom under a pile of bathmats, but she caught us before we could dig all the bathmats out. Oops!
We have all found our own gifts hidden somewhere in our own houses at least one time in our lives. What do you do? Do you keep it a secret, or do you let the person know you found the gift? Does it give you incentive to buy something extra to "one-up" the person's gift? How do you react?
On the flip-side, how do you determine a "good" hiding place? Do you think somebody has ever found YOUR secret hiding place before?
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I was the worst for finding gifts. I knew just how to untape a box so no one knew. The only year I did not find the gifts, my mom left them in the trunk of the car. She had a 1972 Volkswagon squareback. Like a station wagon with the front trunk like a Beetle. I was so scared I wasn't getting anything that year. LOL
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December 2, 2008 8:54 a.m.
yea thats a pretty safe spot aorund our house too, she aint going near that oven its too much like work.
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