Barbara L
Traveling Welcome Wagon
Do you try to figure out what you are getting for Christmas (or birthdays, etc.)? If so, to what lengths will you go? For instance, do you just feel a package, do you shake and squeeze it, do you open it, or do you go searching through cupboards and closets before it is even wrapped?
I am not a peeker. I will look at the gifts and try to imagine what is in the package. Sometimes I will pick the package up. I do not, however, ever try to figure out what the gift is, as that would spoil it for me on Christmas (or birthdays). Even as a kid (teens anyway) my mom would just tell us not to look in her closet or in certain boxes or bags, and I was never even tempted. She even had me wrap some of my own gifts a year or two, since I loved wrapping and she didn't (they were in a box that was taped shut so that they couldn't be identified).
The funny thing is that I am, by nature, extremely curious (okay, nosy), but I have never had a problem waiting for Christmas to see what I got. I'll never forget my mom's story about carefully opening a gift from a boyfriend and then rewrapping it. She said that on Christmas she was kind of disappointed because she already knew what was inside.
So, are you a peeker or not?
Barbara
I am not a peeker. I will look at the gifts and try to imagine what is in the package. Sometimes I will pick the package up. I do not, however, ever try to figure out what the gift is, as that would spoil it for me on Christmas (or birthdays). Even as a kid (teens anyway) my mom would just tell us not to look in her closet or in certain boxes or bags, and I was never even tempted. She even had me wrap some of my own gifts a year or two, since I loved wrapping and she didn't (they were in a box that was taped shut so that they couldn't be identified).
The funny thing is that I am, by nature, extremely curious (okay, nosy), but I have never had a problem waiting for Christmas to see what I got. I'll never forget my mom's story about carefully opening a gift from a boyfriend and then rewrapping it. She said that on Christmas she was kind of disappointed because she already knew what was inside.
So, are you a peeker or not?
Barbara
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