Gumball Posted October 23, 2005 Share Posted October 23, 2005 I've done that a few times. Especially when I bought something WAY before Christmas and hid it so well from my daughter that I forgot where I put it by the time it came to wrap stuff. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jadedmomof2 Posted October 23, 2005 Share Posted October 23, 2005 There is an Elmo toy up in my closet, I meant to give it to my son last Christmas. It's going to my nephew this Christmas. LOL So yes, I have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmcca Posted October 23, 2005 Share Posted October 23, 2005 I have done it too not so much with the kids stuff but with gifts for my sister. I get her little stuff for Christmas stocking or Easter basket and then i cant find it. Somtimes i find it months later. It then just goes intot he next holiday stuff or birthday stuff i give her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmcca Posted October 23, 2005 Share Posted October 23, 2005 Oh i also did that last year with a gift set i bought hubby just found it in a closet last week! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DigDoug Posted October 23, 2005 Share Posted October 23, 2005 Ohhhh.... that kind of stash. No, I haven't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
outnumbered Posted October 23, 2005 Share Posted October 23, 2005 LOL...yeah, I've lost a couple presents before. One year my mom's birthday present became her Christmas present. I normally put presents in my closet, so if I hide them anywhere else I tend to forget where. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
outnumbered Posted October 23, 2005 Share Posted October 23, 2005 Ohhhh.... that kind of stash. No, I haven't.LOL! I would think the other kind of stash would be one you would remember. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldandintheway Posted October 23, 2005 Share Posted October 23, 2005 A few years ago, we bought a lot of gifts for friends/family at after Christmas sales. I stashed all of the gifts when we got home, and couldn't find any of them when it came time for birthdays. We finally found the stuff about a year later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alimfp Posted October 23, 2005 Share Posted October 23, 2005 Oh, I thought you meant hiding stuff in the store.. that way, when the ones on the shelves sell out, you can find the one you hid.. I've never done it, but I swear others have. But no, to answer the OP.. never have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest all2tired Posted October 23, 2005 Share Posted October 23, 2005 Yes I have and I'm still looking for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracy72 Posted October 23, 2005 Share Posted October 23, 2005 lol..yes...I for get aboutthe clothes hanging up alot of times...lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elena_398 Posted October 23, 2005 Share Posted October 23, 2005 Yes I have. I end up buying early in the year and as I buy I "stash" all over. 2 yrs ago I for got a whole bag of toys for my daughter. I found it last year while cleaning out the garage with my husband. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biomajor Posted October 23, 2005 Share Posted October 23, 2005 yes i have--I've also forgotten what I bought last year right after Christmas and put up :-) I guess I'll be surprised in a few weeks too!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bayhaysay Posted October 23, 2005 Share Posted October 23, 2005 Funny story- We go to my husband's grandparents every Christmas Eve and for 3 years in a row I didn't get a gift. Of course we never said anything because she is a little forgetful sometimes but by the 3rd year I was beginning to wonder. The summer after that she went in the hospital and my MIL and I were cleaning her house and in a back closet under some sheets we found 3 gifts with my name on them and 1 with my MIL's name. Needless to say I had 3 new sweaters to wear that coming winter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dealluvr Posted October 23, 2005 Share Posted October 23, 2005 that always seems to happen with me! LOL go figure now i just go with the flow i keep something in my closet on purpose now and my son always hangs around my bedroom when i'm in there cause he knows there is always one more thing.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diane175 Posted October 23, 2005 Share Posted October 23, 2005 Ohhhh.... that kind of stash. No, I haven't. I still have an Elvis book in my closet I bought 2 yrs ago for my sister! I need to find the box its in cause it may have other Christmas items in it I forgot about also! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littlezar Posted October 23, 2005 Share Posted October 23, 2005 We had a big Hot Wheels thing for my middle son one year that we forgot to pull out of the closet and put under the tree. After opening gifts when we realized it, I got the kids distracted in the kitchen while DH ran and got the gift and sort of shoved it way back behind the tree. Then we sat down by the tree and DH "noticed" the gift and my son was happy to get the one thing he really wanted! LOL!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
destinyusa Posted October 23, 2005 Share Posted October 23, 2005 I forgot my daughter's christmas gift one year.We all got done opening gifts and my daughter was sitting in the coner crying. I aksed her what was wrong she said she didn't get the cd player she asked for.I forgot I wraped it and left in the closet.So i went the closet and gave it to her. She was a happy girl. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gporter34 Posted October 23, 2005 Share Posted October 23, 2005 I haven't because I wrap them as soon as I get them or I would forget everything. My mom buys stuff every year after Christmas to put up for next Christmas and always forgets about it. This summer I was helping her go through all of the boxes and bags in her two spare bedrooms, we found so many presents she won't have to buy much this year.lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steakgoddess Posted October 23, 2005 Share Posted October 23, 2005 Nope. I keep all presents in my room just so that doesn't happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephanieD Posted October 23, 2005 Share Posted October 23, 2005 I've done that before. I bought my husband something at Best Buy for Christmas and I got a free 10 dollar gift card with the purchase. I intended to put the gift card in his Christmas stocking and hid it in a drawer where I keep my craft stuff. I actually forgot that I even had the gift card until I was looking for something in my crafting supplies and came upon it a couple of days before Christmas. He probably wouldn't have gotten that card had I not been rumaging through my crafting stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZooMommy Posted October 24, 2005 Share Posted October 24, 2005 I am so bad about forgetting things that I've bought and hidden that I now write down what the gift is, who it's for and where I put it. Thankfully, I haven't forgotten where I hid the notebook! LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kygal2003 Posted October 24, 2005 Share Posted October 24, 2005 I hide gifts all the time and forget where they were placed. I buy throughout the year and stash them in closets whereever they will fit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsbmb Posted October 24, 2005 Share Posted October 24, 2005 no i didnt forget but i was amazed it was gone...lol i put this fancy barbie once way in the back of an olympic barbie that never seemed to sell.. i smuggly went to the back to get it the next day and it was gone! i was shocked cause the olympic ones were like the last ones you would pick. i was bummed. kathy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsbmb Posted October 24, 2005 Share Posted October 24, 2005 whoops guess i misunderstood the post...lol i thought you were talking about hiding an item in the store, and going back for it later.. no i have never lost stuff in the house yet. i keep it in trash bags in the closet in my room. the kids assume its blankets being stored. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elena_398 Posted October 24, 2005 Share Posted October 24, 2005 One too many times here. I start buying so early and stashing items everywhere that I forget. Only once did I forget and never found. But usually forget and don't find until right before christmas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Deals4Me Posted October 24, 2005 Share Posted October 24, 2005 yeah, I have stuff randomly hidden...found some things and went hmmm interesting that I forgot that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tessangel Posted October 24, 2005 Share Posted October 24, 2005 Yep I am guilty. I do that every year atleast one present gets misplaced! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AuntJamelle Posted October 24, 2005 Share Posted October 24, 2005 Never! I don't have kids yet so hiding isn't as much of a challenge in our house. Things I buy during after Christmas sales always get put in spare room closet. Once I start really shopping in June I create a master gift list in Word on my PC and keep track of everthing I buy by person, including stocking stuffers. This has helped me avoid forgetting things - sometimes I'll look at my list and be surprised by whats there. "Oh yeah, I did buy that? Now where did I put it? - But everything is somewhere in the spare room so I usually don't have to look too hard. To hide gifts from DH I wrap them and hide them in plain sight with other wrapped gifts. Might even use "creative labeling". Some things I may keep at work or in trunk of car - I usually make a note in my Word file of where things are hidden. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
copados1993 Posted October 28, 2005 Share Posted October 28, 2005 My Mom use to have that problem when I was growing up! Come to think of it, she still has that happen! My pour Dad just shakes his head!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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