What do we all want to do when we are children and Christmas is around the corner? Search for presents! My parents came up with a plan to get around this and have fun while they were at it.
Have the presents hid in relatively obvious places, so that the children WOULD find them, but swap presents with a neighbor first

. We would look all over and find the presents, and since we had found them, we stopped looking.
Come Christmas, we were in for a BIG surprise.