JFF Are Yours Under the Tree Now?

My son will get money when he comes to visit on the 24th fresh off the plane as there is a huge sale on for the 24th.

I also have three small/cheap (underwear, tshirt) gifts for him for Christmas Day.

I like to see gifts under a tree rather than a naked tree.

I just talked to a friend about this. I grew up with all the presents under the tree Christmas morning and every present was from Santa. For my kids I'm putting the presents out on Friday (worried about the 2 year old opening them) and then Santa brings them one gift and the stockings.
My friend grew up with her mom putting the presents under the tree, but with no names. One year she numbered them, another year she used letters. Then Christmas morning the kids found out if they were "even or odd" for the numbers or what three "letters" were theirs. I thought that sounded really fun and creative...definitely works with two or more kids though.

I put them under as I wrap them. Santa's gifts come Christmas morning.

I like the excitement as the kids look around and read the tags. It builds up their delight. If they sneak and take a peek then it ruins their excitement...not mine. So far they stay away from being sneaky or trying to look inside.

The tree looks pretty with presents under it...especially at night as the lights twinkle and we snuggle up and read Christmas stories...Christmas music playing in the background.

I put everything under the tree. We open family gifts on Christmas Eve and Santa brings the big stuff and a full stocking.

My daughter will be 18 on 12/27 and she still gets up to see what Santa brought. She always woke us up so no matter the time, we'd get up and shed open her Santa items and go through the stocking.

Then we nap a bit before getting up to out the turkey in the oven!!!

Yep, everything goes under the tree as soon as I get it wrapped, so everything is under there now.

Everything is already under our tree except what Santa will bring. I wrap them as I get them, or if I got them early, after the tree goes up. Our dd is 5 and she likes to point at the presents but she never messes with them. She got to help me wrap this year and loved it. :-)

yep mine are all wrapped and under the tree.
They know if they peek they don't get their presents.
Santa does NOT bring the cool gifts in this family.
Santa does one gift for each and their stockings.

ETA: There were 5 of us and when we were little my mom would number or color code them , no name tags just numbers or I might end up with say sesame street paper but my baby brother would get the blue snowmen ( we were a big stretch in age)

No my cat eats paper lol

They are all in a box in my closet. I obviously am NOT a good parent since I barely have a single one wrapped! :)
I have a daughter who is 2 and she would just be ripping into them.
Plus, I think it's great fun when the tree is naked when they go to bed and then full when they wake up.
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Well, we're waiting for the 24th or so, because Kiddo's five and that's just *too* hard for five in my opinion to not quiz over every box and present. They're living in Santa's Wrapping Room, aka our attic master bedroom.

That said, Kiddo is putting all sorts of fun stuff under the tree, mostly 'presents' he has made out of empty egg cartons, stuff from the recycling, etc. It's a load of fun to see what he's coming up with!

We still have a safety gate in the hallway which he more or less "honors" (he can unlatch it) that we use at night, so he won't be likely to ambush the tree in the a.m. without our hearing him open it.:)

ours are under the tree...and always are, as soon as we start getting them.

that's how my mom did it so that's how i've always done it.

not for nothing, i peeked in my mom's closet once (and immediately regretted it) as a child, so it's not really going to stop them.

but i don't think it matters, each family is different.

Oh, it's been asked, but it always pops up several times, so don't worry.

When my children were little, we didn't put the gifts under the tree until after they went to bed on Christmas Eve. They thought it was pretty spectacular when they woke up Christmas morning and saw the beautiful packages. (They always dug into their stockings Christmas morning, and we tackled the tree packages in the afternoon.)

Now that they're all grown up, I still put the gifts under the tree late on Christmas Eve, because the dog and the cats get too, um, inquisitive! That way I don't have to rewrap things at the last minute or sort out the gift tags again. I guess it will stay the tradition.

I put gifts under the tree as I get them wrapped. They love to find new ones and read who they are to and from (grandparents, aunts, cousins, etc). They are only 8 and 4 and I've not had any issues with peaking. I do save all their Santa gifts and put them under the tree before they wake up Christmas morning along with filling their stocking.
They get to open 1 gift Christmas Eve and its usually jammies from Grandma.

I wrap them and put them all under the tree very late Christmas eve. Then when the kids wake up in the morning, they see everything out and are so excited. We do one gift on Christmas Eve.

Wrapped and under the tree. The fun is trying to guess what it is! My kids love to see what is under the tree! This year we changed a little. Normally, the wrapped gifts are from family and Santa is from hubby and I. Well as the kids get older (24 and 20) the gifts get smaller and less. So, I wrapped everything this year! Our son (20) ust got home from university out of state and saw some of his presents. He brought them downstairs and sat in front of me and tried to guess what they were.

Now that both kids are home, its more like the holiday spirit. =)

We don't put anything out until the kids go to bed on Christmas Eve. When they "believed", we didn't wrap any Santa gifts, we just wrapped what was from us, always boring gifts--- clothes! Now we wrap everything.

My husbands gifts from the kids are under the tree, but I will put everything else out on Xmas eve after they've gone to sleep.

We bring the big gift in this house, since Santa cant afford big gifts for everyone.

One of our 3 cats, Ezra of the Grey Coat and Tiny Voice. No gifts, just a cat. :)

Well, I haven't actually wrapped any presents yet, lol. I will have to wait this year because our new puppy, who loves to chew up paper, would destroy the wrapped gifts. Usually I put them out on the evening of the 23rd.

I don't even have my tree up yet, this year. XP

But ordinarily... Prezzies go under as they're bought. First unwrapped (gifts to others; cousins / aunts'n'uncles/ grandparents/ friends/ etc.), then wrapped gifts to others, to ourselves, from others.

Yes there are presents under our tree. Mostly from relatives that mail them. i am planning on adding the ones from us as soon as i finish wrapping them. Santa presents show up on Christmas morning and they are wrapped in green for my daughter and red for my son, no bows or tags. just green and red.
Merry Christmas to you

I always always always wrap and put gifts under the tree as I go. I also stick a few back, tucked away, to put out after everyone is asleep on Christmas Eve (the "wonder" of the season and surprise and all that)... because it is just PRETTY. I have always enjoyed seeing the beautiful wrapped gifts under the tree as the weeks before Christmas drift by. I never worried about my kids peeking. If they do, it will only happen once, I'm sure.
I'm more concerned they will snoop (or even accidentally) and find something that isn't yet wrapped somewhere in the house, lol.

This year almost all of my wrapping paper is foil and/or with glitter on it. It really reflects the lights from the tree beautifully, and I would hate to miss enjoying seeing it there for all except an hour before I go to bed on Christmas Eve. :/

I would love ours to be under the tree, but it is naked down there! Our son just turned 2 last month and has realized that a wrapped gift gets opened, so we do not want him to get confused and think he can open the gifts right now.

I never used to put wrapped gifts under the tree early. For one thing, my kids would poke and shake the gifts and peel back the paper to see what was inside. Then there's the cat. Then there is my procrastination. I often didn't get around to wrapping til Christmas eve anyway so I didn't have to think about whether I wanted to set them out early since they weren't ready.

This year we are flying to California for Christmas so I sent all the gifts ahead last week. Unwrapped. Dumb. Because we don't get there til Christmas eve so I'll be wrapping all the gifts late into the night again as usual.

We wrap presents for our family that does not live in our home (my parents, siblings, niece/nephews). My kids know we buy for the so why not.

Presents for those in our home are wrapped but not yet out until after the kids are in bed (or at least the 6 year old).

Normally there is NOTHING under our tree/ This year, I've got all of my hubby's gifts under the tree, plus the gifts for my family (mom, dad, siblings). The kids won't have ANY gifts under the tree until Christmas Eve, when it's their pajama's from Santa. Everything else comes out Christmas morning for the wow factor :).

When the boys were little I used to put them all under the tree after they went to bed on Christmas Eve, just so there would wake up to a pile of gifts and be surprised. I was also worried that they would mess with the packages. Now I put about half the gifts under the tree as they arrive or as I wrap them. I'm pretty confident they won't mess with them. I'll put the rest out Christmas Eve after they go to bed, along with Santa gifts and stockings.

I have an only child, I don't put anything out until xmas morning. She'd stress out about what was in each package....

We put them under the tree ahead of time. When Santa comes, he puts the special/big gift out, pre assembled if necessary, and usually unwrapped.

But we usually go away to visit family on Christmas, so many presents end up wrapped and put in bags or boxes, ready to load into the car. We have a few presents out under the tree that won't be going with us and the kids have not really ventured over to peek/play with them other than to point and say that they want to open them. They are 4 (twins).

When we arrive at our destination, we put all the presents out. There are a lot of them scattered around because there are lots of relatives there.

When I was younger, I remember shaking a few presents ahead of time. If my mom caught me, she'd tell me to stop. :-) When I got to be around 11 or so, sometimes my mom would put gifts for my sister and myself in plain boxes and ask us to wrap them. We never looked. At some point along the way we learned that peeking just ruined the surprise.

Unless it's breakable, I don't think I'd mind if my kids shook the presents. At this age they probably wouldn't guess what they are anyway. When they get older, I'm sure they will be able to guess some, but I also try to get a little creative with gifts that have an obvious shape by putting them in an unexpected box size. Or you can put some pebbles in the box so it makes a noise they aren't expecting. In my family, you can't always believe the box. So just because the box shows a blender on the outside, it may not really be a blender.

All but one gift is under the tree and the stockings are empty. The final gift and the stockings will be filled after my son goes to bed on Christmas Eve. He opens a package of new PJs on Christmas Eve and wears them that night. We don't open any other gift until Christmas morning. My son is aware of every new addition under the tree but is really good about not picking them up/shaking them etc and trying to figure out what is inside...he is almost 5.

Merry Christmas

We don't put anything under the tree, until the night before.
On Christmas Eve, the kids are allowed to open ONE gift.
That is what my late Dad would do with us too.
He himself could not wait until Christmas morning, and was giddy as a kid himself. Fond memories of him...

My kids are 6 and 10. I did have a couple gifts for them under the tree... to "see" how they'd do. This year. But they cannot wait. Still. It is too much anticipation for them, so then I just put it away and hid it. Again.

Only a few days more....

We never put gifts under the tree until the kids are in bed sleeping on Christmas Eve and the cat is put away for the night. (even now that they are teens/young adults it is still the same)

Partially, because our cat(with a identity crisis) eats the tree and the paper or cardboard the gifts would be in.

Everything is wrapped and under our tree. My mom always did that and I always have since my kids were born. They love to look and see which ones are for them and try to guess and that just adds to the anticipation. To my knowledge, they've never peeked - they are 16 and 14.

Santa gifts are unwrapped and I rarely wrap anything in the stockings.