40 years ago my grandparents did this for my Barbie Dream house probably because they didn’t want to wrap it. But I still remember getting to go on the hunt for my gift. Creates great memories.

Posted, depending on location, ON CHRISTMAS DAY.

Do it like Hal in Malcolm in the Middle lol

Yea this sounds terrible

This might work for very young kids.

I don't fondly remember the Christmas where I was forced to run all around the house finding clues and having to kiss certain family members for the next step, only to find that I already had the same gift I was hunting.

Maybe the lesson here is if you do the scavenger hunt don't hype up one gift the whole time, and don't force affection on kids and/or bargain for theirs.

My parents used to do this and it was always fun!

Or just teach them that presents don’t matter. And not to feel pressure and guilt as a parent to give them expensive things at Christmas. Just give them your love, time and attention.

Yeah i forgot humans have a built-in anxiety regulation system using which they can increase or decrease anxiety instantly at will.

I know it says this Christmas, but there are ~others~ you can use it on 😱

We just do shots of jack and have a slap fight.

You are so kind, this is wholesome af 🥹

This is a really cool suggestion.

This advice came too late

or build a trebuchet out of a discarded pallet, endless fun.

And a shitty life pro tip of this is giving impossibly hard clues and when they can't find it you tell them it's whatever expensive gift they wished for but they gotta find it themselves. Fun for the whole year!

I mean, you can, but both of you are going to lose interest after wrapping/unwrapping the first 160.

This! I remember the hunt and some of the silly clues but I never remember the present. It’s about the experience!! I can see my mom’s cursive on the clues, her hand drawn duck, the smiley face. I remember the presents being wrapped in cereal or oatmeal boxes and the bags shoved in the cabinet. The gifts never mattered.

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In other words make them work hard for gifts they won’t like.

So don't turn 1 box of Lego into 200 individually wrapped gifts?

We've bought an "end of the roll" roll of newspaper from our local newspaper (the roll is too small to use for another issue but has plenty left on there) for like 30-50 bucks. It's a couple of feet wide and is thin white/gray paper. We often unroll a stretch on the floor and let the kids paint on it. At Christmas time, we then use that for wrapping (for anything not from Santa), especially for gifts going to grandparents etc. We've had that roll for years, gets used year-round and it feels like we've barely made a dent. Just if you want something other than tissue paper.

As a kid who experienced this, yes, this is fun. Works better when there are discrete pieces rather than individual components that require assembly. Each package should be exciting to open.

English is so fun.

It's a present to be present in the present.

Tell me bout it, lame I get the gold award while the real comment is two above.

For birthdays we do a "magic present box" in which things randomly appear throughout the day but only when not looking at it. Means each thing gets time to be played with and can open presents from relatives while in a call with them rather than a flurry of wrapping paper