When I was a kid, my siblings and I were pretty bad about snooping for presents. Every year our parents would come up with more and more clever places to hide gifts, and we'd respond by improving our skills at breaking and entering. For example, one year my brother made a makeshift card to jimmy open the locked door of the room where the presents were hidden. The only year we didn't succeed in our snooping efforts was the year they put the presents in the attic. Even then we knew they were there, but we didn't have any way to get up there. My parents would also tape a bedsheet across the doorway of the living room to try to keep us out until morning, but I always snuck in anyway. Ah, traditions.
What kooky Christmas traditions does your family have?
What kooky Christmas traditions does your family have?
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The one thing we didn't do was look for the hidden presents. Isn't that strange? I accidentally found them one year and it destroyed me. I couldn't ask Santa for what I wanted (walkie talkies) because I knew my parent's had bought them for me already. My parent's had a hard time explaining that one to me. By the end I knew the truth about Santa and I remember how devastated I felt. Still, good times.
The stairs had a door at the top, and we were locked in the basement until the parents were good and ready for us. One year, my brother shimmied up the laundry shoot and let us out, but the next year, there was a mysterious pile of bricks on the door of the shoot.