Holidays,  Humor,  Living in New York,  parenting

Where do you hide your holiday presents?

Taking advice from Edgar Allen Poe’s The Purloined Letter (Hide it in plain sight)

Where do you hide your holiday presents? We live in a New York City apartment, so hiding spaces are few (even for when you play hide-and-seek, as you do with kids).

And we are using all almost our space. We have  even put in storage space abover our bathroom ceiling. That’s one of the main places I hide presents. You need a ladder to get up there, so it’s not easily accessible.

However, even my main hiding spots are beginning to fill up. My usual spot in the basement is storing toys which haven’t been played with in awhile. But they are in the purgatory period – will my son notice that they have disappeared? If not, in six months, we can donate them. (Not that that always works.)

But I’ve found a new spot. Can you spot the hidden presents?

Where would you hide them in this closet?

Feel free to post your guess below. (I can use that next year in case my daughter reads this article).

The presents are in the laundry bags! (And yes, I have a lot of black clothes. And my closet looks nothing like The Container Store closets or any designed closets. :).  Although I do love the Container Store plastic boxes and highly recommmend those.

My tip is to wrap the presents in case they are found.

And then the key is to remember where you hid them.  I often forget where I’ve put the presents if I deviate from my usual spaces. When I am older, I  plan to spend December hiding presents for myself, so I can spend the rest of the year finding my presents 🙂

Have a great weekend! Where do you hide your holiday presents? And how do you remember where you hid them?

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