While parents may complain about all the spending and shopping during the holidays, they tend to forget it all when Christmas morning rolls around. Seeing how happy their kids are makes it all worth it and a new survey finds that 55% of parents get just as excited as their kids when it’s time to unwrap presents.
But it turns out, the biggest challenge is keeping those presents a surprise during the weeks ahead of the holiday, according to a poll of 2-thousand parents. Persistent, curious children can make it hard as they question mom and dad or even dig around to see what they’re getting.
- Kids aren’t afraid to ask about their gifts, and they do it an average of 51 times during the holiday season.
- Parents may use that to their advantage, as they use presents as a bribery tool an average of 39 times throughout the holiday months.
- More than half of moms and dads (56%) use holiday-related characters, like Santa Claus, Krampus or Jack Frost, to discourage kids from snooping for their gifts.
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- To help keep them a surprise, most parents put a lot of effort into hiding their kids’ gifts ahead of the holidays, including 63% who disguise gifts as something else to keep their kids from suspecting.
- A third even let their kiddos find decoy presents to throw them off the trail.
- The top trusted spots parents use for hiding gifts are closets (56%), their bedroom (54%), their car (26%), the basement (22%) and the garage (20%).
- But some get more creative, hiding them at a loved one’s home (19%), in the attic (15%), in a suitcase (13%), in a shed (13%), at work (10%), inside appliances (8%), or even in the trash (4%).
- A few have even used a dog house, cereal boxes or dirty laundry as hiding spots.
- Sometimes, their hiding skills are too good, as 55% admit they’ve forgotten where they’ve hidden gifts and only found them after the holidays. And 29% have even had to re-buy a gift because it was too well hidden or misplaced.
Source: Talker
