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| 839.1 | | USCTR1::KFERRIS | | Thu Oct 27 1994 10:20 | 8 |
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My mother did this once with some of our Christmas presents.
Hid them, forgot all about them, and then found them a couple
of months later. *8^) *8^)
Kristin
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| 839.2 | BARBIE = 1, ME = NONE | GENRAL::MARZULLA | | Thu Oct 27 1994 13:55 | 6 |
| I did this with a Barbie Doll. Bought in September for Christmas.
I did remember it but geeze - where did I hide it. Never found it
before Christmas. Still haven't found it. We did do a move a year
and a half ago and thought - OK - I am touching everything we own,
the house will be empty - I will find that darn thing. Guess what?
Never did. It fell into the black hole and never came out!
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| 839.3 | | ENQUE::ROLLMAN | | Thu Oct 27 1994 14:06 | 22 |
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Let's see...
1) The Christmas present for my sister that I found when I
cleaned my room to go to college 10 years later.
2) The ski bag I got for Christmas from my brother, that
when I put it away in my condo, I thought "Don't put it
there, you'll never see it again", and I haven't.
3) The book-and-tape sets I found on sale, so I bought
a whole bunch to dole out over the months, that I hid
in my bedroom closet, except I asked Elise to get the
brown paper bag out of my closet, meaning the pantyhose
I had just bought, but she found a different brown paper
bag and triumphantly ran into the kitchen, shouting, "LOOK
WHAT I FOUND! LOOK WHAT I FOUND!"
Yes, I've done that....
Pat
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| 839.4 | | LJSRV1::LEGER | | Thu Oct 27 1994 14:20 | 22 |
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Oh does this bring back memories...
When I was younger, my mom use to "hide" our X-Mas presents. One
afternoon her and my dad left us with Memere babysitting. While playing
Hide-n-seek, I hid under Mom's bed. Lo and behold, there were 5 boxes
of roller-skates for us for X-mas.
Well, we (brothers and sisters and myself) took the skates outside
in the garage, put them on and skated that afternoon. We did this
numberous times before X-Mas.
On X-Mas morning, we opened up our presents, and there were NO skates!
When I asked my mother what happend to our skates, she had totally
forgotten she had purchased them, and hid them under her bed! We
showed her!
To this day, its always a joke at Mom's at X-mas time to see if she
might have forgotten anything in the closet or unde her bed....
Anne Marie
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| 839.5 | Hey, what's in *this* bag??? | DELNI::CHALMERS | | Thu Oct 27 1994 16:34 | 11 |
| re: -.1 That's funny!
Last year, we tried to get a head start on our shopping, and actually
began buying in late summer. I picked up some stuff on sale, including
a F-P tape recorder, and promptly hid it in the basement. As Christmas
approached, we were still buying stuff, and forgetting what I had
already bought, I purchase yet another F-P tape recorder! To compound
the gaffe, I didn't realize that I had bought two until I started
wrapping stuff a few days before Christmas...:^}
Freddie
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| 839.6 | | NPSS::BRANAM | Steve, Network Product Support | Fri Oct 28 1994 12:24 | 13 |
| We "hid" some toys for my son's 4th birthday and Christmas in the trunk of the car
("Heck, he can't get into there!"), but made the mistake of not putting them in a
plain bag. Believe me, he *knows* what a Toys-R-Us bag looks like! One day as
we're unloading some groceries, his eyes just able to peer over the edge of the
trunk, he sees the bag. We quickly shut it as he says, "Hey, I saw somepin!" All
the way into the house, "Mommy, I saw somepin in there!". So I run out the
basement door, grab the bag and take everything to the basement (mad dash to find
temporary safe haven), stash the goods and leave one little toy in the bag. I take
this up to the kitchen and say "Look, we got a surprise for you!" And of course he
is ecstatic as we wipe our brows over the close call.
Parenthood: How to lie, cheat, steal, bribe, and deceive. Now you be a good little
boy!
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| 839.7 | | MKOTS3::MACFAWN | Alyssa and Krystin's mommy | Fri Oct 28 1994 13:14 | 16 |
| This story has nothing to do with kids, but I can remember when my dad
got his 3 weeks vacation pay and forgot to go to the bank to deposit
it. So he hid it so that he didn't have to take it all with him on
vacation. We came home from vacation and he couldn't remember for the
life of him where he hid the money. We tore that house inside out and
still couldn't find it.
Sure enough 4 months later I sliced my finger on one of my toys, and
mom told me to go and get a band-aid. When I didn't return from the
bathroom, mom came looking for me. She found me...on the bathroom
floor playing with lots and lots of money. Dad had hid it in the
bandaid box!
I don't think I ever did get that band-aid!
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