I like seeing wrapped Christmas presents under our tree. However, with three kids in the house, the nicely wrapped presents used to only sit under the tree from 11 P.M. Christmas Eve (after they went to bed) until 7 A.M. Christmas morning (when they woke up). Only the cat got to enjoy looking at presents under our tree, and that was in the dark for only about 8 hours. Why? Because children like to shake stuff and figure out what they are/were getting.
Not anymore. Enter, Pastor Steve’s revolutionary Christmas gift numbering system. When you wrap a gift, wrap it good, then put a number on it and place the wrapped gift under the tree. Then, on an index card, write the number and who that gift is for, then put it in your pocket. Soon there will be many gifts under your tree to enjoy and it drives the children crazy to have no clue who is getting what (which is also now an enjoyable part of Christmas for me). And, they leave them alone. Amazing. You’re welcome.
Two tips: 1) always keep the index card on your person, and 2) don’t lose it. I speak from experience.
I write this as a public service to our city, and even as I do so my three kids, now teenagers, are pleading with me to not post this - the threat is that children city-wide will now hate me. The fact that you are reading this reveals that I have no need to be popular.
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That’s a great idea. I use a different wrapping paper for each child. I do tag any gift for the adults but all of my grandkids are without tags. Since I only have 4 grandkids it is easy to remember which wrapping paper I use for each child.
This would be a great thing to do for my Mom! She is a gift peaker! My late grandma was, too. They would open a corner of their gifts when no one was around and see what was in them. I wrap stuff in boxes that don’t match with what the gift is, so when Mom opens the corner, she might think she is getting a pair of shoes when it’s really something else. Today, one of my mom’s friends sent her a gift that said, “Do not open till 9-2-08!” That’s my mom’s birthday and Mom told me today, “How in the world can I keep from opening it?” She said she better hide it, but then she will probably forget where she put it. I bet you $1,000 that before midnight tonight, Mom will have that gift open!!
Hahaha, I love it, it’s great, thanks.
My parents would switch our names around (4 of us). Presents would be passed out and we would apraise our pile and then be told “you move to his pile, you to hers and. . . ” And they changed it every year and we could never figure it out.