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Drakeytown t1_j1l5ys0 wrote
Reply to LPT: If you are hurting this year for money and you don't have a lot for your kids for Christmas/holidays, hide what the gifts you have, make a treasure hunt with clues and riddles, and stretch it out to give them a great experience. by pinheadbrigade
With all that abundant free time that poor parents have . . .
NotCleverEnufToRedit t1_j1l5592 wrote
Reply to LPT: If you are hurting this year for money and you don't have a lot for your kids for Christmas/holidays, hide what the gifts you have, make a treasure hunt with clues and riddles, and stretch it out to give them a great experience. by pinheadbrigade
I did this for my husband this year because he wants something technical that has options, and I don’t know what options are the right ones to get for his setup. So the kids and I came up with clues for things around the house whose first letters spell out the thing he wants. Seemed like more fun than just wrapping up a piece of paper with the name of the stuff he wants on it.
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OhSassafrass t1_j1l46re wrote
Reply to LPT: If you are hurting this year for money and you don't have a lot for your kids for Christmas/holidays, hide what the gifts you have, make a treasure hunt with clues and riddles, and stretch it out to give them a great experience. by pinheadbrigade
My dad did this and I wished I would have kept them. I sort of remember the limerick/ poem about my Nike Air Max's, it was all about me. I was kind of embarrassed but now realize he really loved me so much or he wouldn't have known all that stuff and put the time into writing it down and being so creative.
LesWhite t1_j1l44sq wrote
Reply to comment by jnmann in LPT: If you are hurting this year for money and you don't have a lot for your kids for Christmas/holidays, hide what the gifts you have, make a treasure hunt with clues and riddles, and stretch it out to give them a great experience. by pinheadbrigade
"C'mon dad, where are our presents? It's been 3 hours."
Me: "Take a look around you. This IS the present."
RikerT_USS_Lolipop t1_j1l3m50 wrote
Reply to comment by manymade1 in LPT: If you are hurting this year for money and you don't have a lot for your kids for Christmas/holidays, hide what the gifts you have, make a treasure hunt with clues and riddles, and stretch it out to give them a great experience. by pinheadbrigade
Yea, just the act that something unusual is being done will put them on alert. And they will notice the presents are weak. That's not something a child will forget to notice. This tip is like saying, "If you're an employer short changing your employee, you should chat with them as you hand them their check to stretch it out for time."
Diesel_Or_Unleaded t1_j1l32r7 wrote
Reply to comment by meltshake in LPT: If you are hurting this year for money and you don't have a lot for your kids for Christmas/holidays, hide what the gifts you have, make a treasure hunt with clues and riddles, and stretch it out to give them a great experience. by pinheadbrigade
They should be upvoting his comment, not mine
jman308 t1_j1l32ih wrote
Reply to LPT: If you are hurting this year for money and you don't have a lot for your kids for Christmas/holidays, hide what the gifts you have, make a treasure hunt with clues and riddles, and stretch it out to give them a great experience. by pinheadbrigade
My parents also did this. I did it for my kids. And then as they became young adults they surprised me and gave me my own hunt again. Def brings back the magic. I know they’ll do it for their kids as well.
meltshake t1_j1l30vt wrote
Reply to comment by Diesel_Or_Unleaded in LPT: If you are hurting this year for money and you don't have a lot for your kids for Christmas/holidays, hide what the gifts you have, make a treasure hunt with clues and riddles, and stretch it out to give them a great experience. by pinheadbrigade
Be the present by being present.
Oldpqlyr t1_j1l2gr6 wrote
Reply to LPT: If you are hurting this year for money and you don't have a lot for your kids for Christmas/holidays, hide what the gifts you have, make a treasure hunt with clues and riddles, and stretch it out to give them a great experience. by pinheadbrigade
What a wonderful tradition.
Safe, Happy Holydays!!
NerdWhoLikesTrees t1_j1l1yo7 wrote
Reply to LPT: If you are hurting this year for money and you don't have a lot for your kids for Christmas/holidays, hide what the gifts you have, make a treasure hunt with clues and riddles, and stretch it out to give them a great experience. by pinheadbrigade
I HIGHLY suggest guessing gifts as well.
My family does these. Wrap an item in several layers of wrapping paper. The item has to be out of it's packaging. Everyone takes turns guessing what the item might be and whoever gets it right can keep it. The "unwrapping" process of a single gift can be as much as 30 minutes of guessing and laughs. We allow for everyone to ask yes or no questions to narrow down the answer.
Spahii t1_j1l1rdy wrote
Reply to comment by chammy82 in LPT: From now until midnight Christmas, give yourself a complete break of all your worries. by Boemerangman2
The money is good, but I've got a one year old; sleep is better right now 😂
Open_Significance_17 t1_j1l1fir wrote
Reply to LPT: If you are hurting this year for money and you don't have a lot for your kids for Christmas/holidays, hide what the gifts you have, make a treasure hunt with clues and riddles, and stretch it out to give them a great experience. by pinheadbrigade
I appreciate this so much, just got done making the scavenger list because of this post. Christmas is tight this year and our year has been incredibly rough as a family. Hopefully they remember this for Christmas thank you OP
[deleted] t1_j1l0vbk wrote
Reply to comment by KnightCastle171 in LPT: If you are hurting this year for money and you don't have a lot for your kids for Christmas/holidays, hide what the gifts you have, make a treasure hunt with clues and riddles, and stretch it out to give them a great experience. by pinheadbrigade
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uxuxuxuxuxux t1_j1l0j87 wrote
Reply to LPT: If you are hurting this year for money and you don't have a lot for your kids for Christmas/holidays, hide what the gifts you have, make a treasure hunt with clues and riddles, and stretch it out to give them a great experience. by pinheadbrigade
It will only hype up your shitty gifts maybe
DragonC007 t1_j1l020c wrote
Reply to LPT: If you are hurting this year for money and you don't have a lot for your kids for Christmas/holidays, hide what the gifts you have, make a treasure hunt with clues and riddles, and stretch it out to give them a great experience. by pinheadbrigade
This would’ve been good advice if Christmas hadn’t happened already.
EhhSuzilla t1_j1kzzbq wrote
Reply to comment by squeakysqueakysqueak in LPT: If you are hurting this year for money and you don't have a lot for your kids for Christmas/holidays, hide what the gifts you have, make a treasure hunt with clues and riddles, and stretch it out to give them a great experience. by pinheadbrigade
Thanks!
Flair_Helper t1_j1kzti2 wrote
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Reply to LPT: If you run out of wrapping paper use any newspaper or magazines you have laying around instead. by [deleted]
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Maiyku t1_j1kziml wrote
Reply to LPT: If you are hurting this year for money and you don't have a lot for your kids for Christmas/holidays, hide what the gifts you have, make a treasure hunt with clues and riddles, and stretch it out to give them a great experience. by pinheadbrigade
Treasure Hunts are awesome and we really should do them more.
My parents never did it for a birthday, but they did do it for Halloween in 2001 after 9/11. They succumbed to the “someone is going to poison my child’s candy” fear and wouldn’t let us trick-or-treat that year, so instead they did a treasure hunt for us, with our candy hidden at the end. Each clue lead to one of the magnetic letters we had around the house and once we had them all it spelled the location of the candy, which ended up being the sandbox. We actually had to dig our candy out of the sand like real treasure! Hahaha. (Don’t worry, mom put it in ziploc bags first!).
As much as their reasoning might’ve been a little strange, the treasure hunt was incredibly fun and despite missing trick or treating, we all honestly felt we had a lot more fun doing that. My parents hid stuff outside, we had to walk down the road to visit our grandma for clues, and overall they just did a really good job.
Any event can be made into a treasure hunt!
chapstikcrazy t1_j1kypj4 wrote
Reply to comment by RunawayHobbit in LPT: If you are hurting this year for money and you don't have a lot for your kids for Christmas/holidays, hide what the gifts you have, make a treasure hunt with clues and riddles, and stretch it out to give them a great experience. by pinheadbrigade
My mom did this too!! Its been such a blast to carry on the tradition.
RunawayHobbit t1_j1kx7ju wrote
Reply to comment by mattrhere in LPT: If you are hurting this year for money and you don't have a lot for your kids for Christmas/holidays, hide what the gifts you have, make a treasure hunt with clues and riddles, and stretch it out to give them a great experience. by pinheadbrigade
Mine did it for Easter! She hid our baskets and wrote these really incredible rhyming clues. Absolutely loved it
keepthetips t1_j1l5ywv wrote
Reply to LPT: When low on funds for Christmas gifts for kids. by Boredandsleeps
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