Do you open gifts Christmas Eve or Christmas Day?

[Chazz]

We've always opened them Christmas Day. What about you?

[tinkerbell2]

We open ours on Christmas Day, well that's when we can get the two
older children to get out of bed to come downstairs.. It's me that gets up at a silly time
in the morning waiting for them..

[ornamentmaven]

Ha Ha Tink - I always have to wait for my kids too. Even when the 26 year old was a very little girl - we could never get her up!

Well, we open ours Christmas morning as a family. On Christmas Eve we have extended family over for a buffet dinner and open gifts from them at that time. I still buy my two daughters new pajamas to be opened on Christmas Eve!

[Home alone 2]

We open one on Christmas Eve (been a tradition for years) and leave the rest until the day.

[Chazz]

My daughter gets to open her gifts Christmas morning. Then, we have a big family gathering at my parents' home, where more gifts are opened. Finally, my wife and I open gifts from each other on Christmas night. A whole day of gifts makes for a lot of fun!

[Greetings !]

My DH likes opening gifts after midnight mass, but I prefer waiting till morning. So we do both.

[olga]

Open gifts New Years Eve, thats the custom, here, in Greece.

[SilverBells]

We open them Christmas morning but save one for New Year's Day.

[olga]

We open them Christmas morning but save one for New Year's Day.

Tiatia, you're the first person I know, in Greece, opening gifts Christmas morning!!!

[Jordan]

What a great thread!

I've always opened my gifts Xmas morning with my family. My wife and her family have always opened one gift Xmas eve, though (usually a pair of pyjamas), so we sometimes do that, too. That said, the gift giving is usually spread out among my family over a day or two.

Neat to hear how they do things in Greece!