Hiding gifts has never been a challenge for my dh and I. We don’t actually do the Santa thing, but we still buy gifts for our children.  We call them family gifts.

We put all the unwrapped gifts in trash bags in the garage. Of course, you must inform your spouse that it is not garbage. One idea to distinguish gifts from garbage is to use a different color bag than you usually buy for your garbage. We use black in our kitchen, so we purchase white trash bags.

This system has yet to fail us. However, I always mark in my Christmas notebook what I have bought to avoid over buying.  I do wrap all the gifts and put under the Christmas tree sometime before Christmas.  This way we don’t have to wait up all night on Christmas Eve before our anticipating children fall asleep.

Where does Santa hide the gifts at your house?