Present Shaking Anyone?

Nope I wasn't, my Children used to thinking about it they still do lol I have to admit though I am the worse for it and the Kids tell ME OF I mean ME innocent me Gissi rattles them all whether they are his or not

In my parents home, we didn't see Christmas gifts till Christmas eve. I did the same with my daughter. No shaking, no guessing, no fingerprints...

Well i was a little sticker i would peel back the tape and peek at my gifts. That is why my dad wraps evrything in boxes so we cant peek and sometimes in many many boxes its became a funny game now as to who gets the small gift in the large box ie gift card in a computer box.

As a child we were never allowed to touch the presents actuall. But did that stop us? Nahhh! Never actually. I can recall a couple times actually steaming the tape to open one. Then I'd rewrap it. I guess that's where I get my art of wrapping from maybe. I always woke up at like 4 or 5 a.m. to mess with my gifts under the tree. HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~

I hate knowing what im getting before christmas. Every year I usually come across a present accidentally and get really upset, I like it to be a surprise. So when the presents are under the tree I dont go near or touch them, Id rather be surprised when I open them.

Yeah, we were allowed to shake the gifts under the tree.. even if i shake it for a hundred times or more, i still can't figure out what's inside.. i don't know..maybe my relatives are just good in gift wrapping thingy or should i say making tricks for you not to find out what's inside? haha..

My parents always put a few presents under the tree to make us wonder. We were ot allowed to touch or shake them. If we were caught doing so. We would not be allowed to have that present or any. They would be donated to charity.

no I was not allowed to touch them, my son did though he was such a stubborn child there was nothing I could tell him not to do, he would do it anyway.

At a very young age we stopped getting gifts under the tree and birthday gifts. My twin and I where told we did not deserve gifts so if we did get anything we where told my parents spent the same amount on our older sister as they did on my twin and I but we have to share the gift because there are two of us and it is our fault. That was not the case, our older sister always got really, really nice gifts and we got crap. When my sister got a horse my parents bought for her, she needed a saddle so she could ride it. All the money went to the saddle so we got nothing, not even something small. No shaking, no nothing got broken under the tree.

Hmm, I dont think we really did shake the gifts. If we were really curious and poking wouldnt be enough to identify the contents then we give it a little shake and when the giver tells us not to because it might break the thing inside then we're good cause at least we have an idea on what we'll get. Though, its really a no brainer on what we will get on Christmas. Its always either 2 or 3 shirts, or a bag. There were a few Christmases when we didnt really expect what we got and then there was that one Christmas when the whole family just went to the mall and buy the gift we want on the spot.^_^ Happy Holidays.^_^

We were never allowed to. I am sure that we must have tried to, anyway. It surely makes you curious about what is under the tree! *LOL* ;) Merry Christmas! :)

When I was a child my brother and sister and I would find the presents and gently unwrap them to see what they were. We were very good at it and rarely got caught, or at least our parents did not let on. When we were older we were allowed to open one present each the night before. That did not stop me from shaking and guessing the contents of presents, that is half the fun. I hate those free for alls where people just go crazy for a few minutes and open them all up at once.

Guilty! My two brothers and I would shake our gifts and try to guess what they were, and would sometimes be right. So finally, my Mom put codes instead of names on our presents so we didn't know who's was whose :) She has not sone this for quite some time now because we are way older, but it was a creative idea :)

My parents never put the gifts under the tree until after we were asleep on Christmas Eve. Now, when I'm 19 and my brother is 15, they still wait until we're asleep to put the gifts under the tree. However, when we were younger, we would search the house high and low for the gifts. I never did this, because I wanted to be surprised on Christmas morning, but my brother had become a master at upwrapping gifts without ripping the paper, then wrapping them up again. So be sure that you hide the gifts in a secret place that's difficult to find!

Our presents weren't put under the tree until we were sleeping on Christmas Eve too! We weren't allowed to get out of bed before the adults though. So we just peeked at the living room from our bedroom doors. My kids were the curious ones. They woke early in the morning on Christmas Day. I usually went to bed at about 3 a.m. because I procrastinated and put off the wrapping of the gifts until the last minute. The kids woke at 5 a.m. and thundered down the stairs. I would hear them moving the gifts and reading the labels to one another. The would then run up the stairs and ask if they could open their gifts. Their father always came over on Christmas morning to watch the kids open their gifts. He wasn't due until 6:30. I told the kids they could open their stocking gifts first and had to wait for their father. They really were so excited that they could hardly contain themselves. But, they waited for their father to arrive and for me to crawl out of bed to join them downstairs.

I was terrible at this as a child. Actually I'm still bad at it. I tend to get rather curious and leave them alone when everyone else is awake. However, I get really excited on Christmas eve and tend to find it hard to sleep. So when everyone goes to bed, I get up and start shaking. I haven't broken anything and I've actually gotten pretty good at figuring out what is in the packages from shaking them. I'm just that good!

No we wern't allowed to touch the presents under the tree. I know that when noone was home I would try and sneak by slowly tearing the clear tape off to open the gift to peek at it. Well and behold I got caught one day and I almost didn't have a christmas that year. My mom was furiouse with me I never will forget it she yelled. I never did it again after that. My son hasn't done it that I know of but I know what to look for if he did for I did it and you can tell when the gift has been tampered with plus it spoils what your getting.

There are no rules whether we are allowed to shake or not but when a new gift is under a tree, my parents would remind which is "fragile" so it's up to us if we're gonna stick to that curiosity or not. It's not our practice to touch the gifts either when it's not yet time for Christmas. My mother has a way not to name the gifts yet until it's the night before and I usually suspect it's just the same item coz she has a personal tradition of giving the same kind of gift to those coming in our house. It's not our practice to shake but we are reminded for stuff that are "fragile".

I used to shake all the presents i got and still do sometimes. Nothing has been broken due to this but its fun to do it. It makes me feel like i'm again :D