when does your family open christmas presents?

Question

i need help because people say on christmas morning but my 17 year old sister wakes up after lunch, so does my older brother, my little brother, my mom and i wake up really early, and if we wake up our older brother and sister they say "you guys go ahead, we'll open our gifts later", and if were not together it wont really feel like christmas, so please help me, thank you

Answer 1

Well being from the "Old Country" (Germany) My family always celebrated Christmas on the 24th ( Christmas Eve) and that's when we would open our presents.
When I was very little the tradition was that we would eat dinner and then the children went into a different part of the house to play and weren't allowed to come into the living room. The adults would put up the tree and put out all the presents. When everything was ready we were told that Santa had been there and we came in to see the tree with all the lights and all the packages. It was great !! As we got older the tree on Christmas Eve thing kind of developed into the way it is now, with the whole family putting up the tree the week before. When children were little we kept the same cycle going.All the kids are grown now,None of us is fooled, but it still makes Christmas that much more special.
However you do it at your house, MERRY CHRISTMAS !!!!

Answer 2

yea as I have gotten older, christmas doesn't feel like christmas.

Usually the morning of xmas is when the presents are to be opened in our house, cuz thats what we did growing up.

me being the oldest, would always WAIT till they got up. just sitting in front of the tree watching the lights.

why not try the night before? xmas eve? a new tradition. they would be awake. you didn't say how little the little brother is. little enough to believe in santa? than they may cause some questions, but if you open only gifts from each other than
maybe it might work.

we are always used to santa coming when we sleep, and waking up to presents. that is how it is supposed to be. I said that not too long ago. my X and I are divorced, her remarried, wants the kids to have a REAL xmas over there. you know open the gifts in the morning it was hard

$h!t still is hard I want them to be here when santa comes. traditions hard to make new ones, and hard to follow old ones.
compromise and change.
those are two difficult words.

when ever you open presents. enjoy your family that is the idea......

Answer 3

The kids open a couple of gifts on Christmas Eve and then the rest first thing in the morning. I couldn't imagine opening up presents without everyone. I would make those lazy siblings wake up. Its Christmas! They can sacrifice a few hours just one day of the year to do a family thing. Or you could wait to do it later, together, but I can't imagine. The whole point is getting up to see if Santa came.... Good Luck!!

Answer 4

Well when I was a kid and teenager I would be up early no matter how hard I tried to sleep, so after waking our parents we normally got down to presents at 9 am or so...we were allowed to open our stockings as soon as we woke up on our own, had to wait for everyone though for the main gifts. Now I have my own kids and they wake me early 7am and were downstairs ripping into it all before 8am! Ask them if they could please just this one day get up at 10, that's not too early but also not too late and tell them it's important to you that as a family you share this morning together, really they should try this one day to get up a few hours earlier to be together and celebrate...just let them all know how much it means to you and if that doesn't work bribe them with cash....kidding.

Answer 5

Compromise, you can open some gifts on Christmas eve, like pj's or movies then the family can stay up in the pj's and watch movies, then on Christmas wait and open the gifts together after lunch, it will still be Christmas, just later in the day.

Answer 6

My husband and I started a tradition with our kids...we open one gift a piece in the evening on Christmas eve and we open a "family gift" which is always a new game for us to play before we all go to bed. Then we open the rest on Christmas day after everyone is out of bed.

Answer 7

To solve this very problem my family open our presents in two stages. You can open your stocking presents from Santa whenever you want (normally as soon as you get up, whenever that might be) then we open our gifts to and from each other once we are all up and awake together. Some years this has been mid-morning other years after lunch once everyone is up. This gives you the best of both worlds we get to have a family event and also get out of bed when we want.
(This system also means everyone gets to have a stocking from Santa regardless of age, the youngest member of our family is now 23!)

Answer 8

I kno that some families do it on x-mas eve, but I feel that isn't the true x-mas holiday celebration. i think you should wake them up (or set their alarm clocks) and then when they give u the "you guys go ahead..." speech, you should throw some giult on them about how because of them the christmas spirit is lost, and now you won't be able to celebrate christmas like a family because they are sleeping through your precious time together, and that you should be together and they are not fufilling your very possible christmas wish. (also if you like say " all i wanted today was for us to be together on x-mas morning and open our presents together, but i guess that wish won't come true").

Answer 9

I think if they do not open up presents on Christmas morning, I would plan a little differently next time. Thats just pathetic. You spend money, its a holiday tradition and they are not greatful enough to get out of bed to celebrate the holiday.
I remember when I was a younger, I bought a present for my boyfriend and he chose to go out drinking with his buddies rather than come open his present, so I took it back and forgot about him. That was the last time I ever bought him anything.
If they dont get up to open their gifts, take them back to the store and get the money back. I bet they remember that.

Answer 10

Our policy is: everyone gets up early and opens gifts together. If you want to go back to sleep, you can. Your right. I don't think it would be much of a Christmas if both of my children and my husband weren't opening up gifts at the same time.