Hi everyone. I've noticed that a lot of people have strong feelings about this. So, do you open gifts on Christmas morning or Christmas eve?

My dad always let us open one gift on Christmas eve and we opened the rest on Christmas morning. My grandparents exchange gifts on Christmas eve so we went there on Christmas eve and exchanged gifts our gifts for them. I will admit I always thought it was kind of weird to exchange gifts on Christmas eve instead of Christmas morning. What is there to do Christmas morning if you already opened your gifts the night before? But it worked out nicely this year. Tristan's family does it on Christmas eve so I can go there for Christmas eve and he can spend Christmas day here with me.

Which are you? Christmas eve or Christmas morning?

Christmas Day is the day.
We've tried the 'one on the Eve', not the same
We have opened on Christmas Eve for those that cannot be with us day of.

There is no substitute for Christmas Day gathering for the opening of presents, secondary to the reason for Christmas in the first place.

Hi Julia 🙋‍♀️ We open gifts with friends and family that we won't see on Christmas on Christmas Eve or sometimes before.  The immediate family on Christmas morning.  The extended family and friends after Christmas dinner with desserts!

Merry Christmas, Jessica 🤶

Always Christmas morning for family. For those we can't be with we are more flexible, sometimes before Christmas, sometimes after.

There was a time when we opened one on Christmas Eve, and the rest on Christmas day. These days, we just give them to each other whenever. Today, we are going to my brother's house to exchange gifts.

Let's get down to brass tacks. Do you peek? Peel the tape to get a look? 

I won't touch a present until it's time to open it. I try to peel the paper off without looking so I get the full view all at once. 

Hugs, Devlyn

Both but mostly Christmas morning

Was always Christmas morning when I was a kid.  Had the tree in the basement and my parents would make us all wait at the top of the stairs until they set everything up.  They'd yell om and we'd all run down and have a frenzy.  Grandparents would then show up after noon or so and we'd have round 2. 

Don't remember when or why but sometime after were old enough to actually spend our own allowance money on them, we started opening the gifts from our siblings on Christmas Eve. 



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Most of my life we did them on Christmas day and then we gradually moved them to Christmas Eve and now we are getting back to making them Christmas day again. Hugs
Mariah

It was always Christmas day for us, but some years we did one gift on x-mas eve when were were younger and couldn't wait. I think xmas eve gifts were usually the ones my sisters and I got each other. back in my early teens I would ask for a lot of CDs for christmas, so the holidays are sentimental for me because I got a lot of my favorite albums as gifts. One album that I remember getting on x-mas eve though was Kerplunk by Green Day, I still love that album and try to listen to it on x-mas eve every year lol, I think I was 10 when I got that one, maybe 11

We did mornings for the longest time.  Then my parents decided to do midnight mass, and set the presents out while me and my siblings were in the car.  When we got back it was an end run into the living room to see if Santa came while we were out.  Became nights ever since then.
I know that was still, technically, morning, but it became the night before for many presents, and they still hid some to come from Santa for the day, after that.
Now it's kind of whenever we can all get together.

We do both :-) trying to give our kid some of our German Heritage and the new life in the US...

When I was little we'd open all the wrapped presents on Christmas Eve, then in the morning Santa would bring us a bunch of unwrapped stuff & filled our stockings. We were horribly spoiled. Tip to parents: don't spoil your children.

Christmas after my family split apart was almost nonexistent. Occasionally I'd join my stepmom's family where we opened things on Christmas day.

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Christmas eve. Santa Claus always knocked at our door after sundown to ask whether there were any good children in the house. We always told him there were, and he'd hand us the gifts.

We'd also tell him he was welcome to join us for dinner, as we had plenty for a guest or a traveller, but he never accepted the offer. I guess he just was too busy.

When I was a kid we did the one gift on Christmas Eve and the rest on Christmas day thing

Christmas morning