My niece opened everyone else’s presents on Christmas Eve & even broke some, my brother’s mad at my plan for this year
LAST year’s Christmas drama is threatening to come back to haunt one feuding family.
After a little girl opened up everyone’s presents in 2022, some of the family is instituing new rules — but it may be creating some more hard feelings.
Redditor Jazzlike-town7686 posted the holiday blunder to the social media platform.
They said that every year, their entire family gets together for Christmas.
Although the gathering can get “hectic,” it makes the parents happy to see everyone for the holiday.
“Last year, my brother married ‘Sally.’ She has a seven-year-old daughter, ‘Mindy.’ This was their first Christmas with us,” Jazzlike-town7686 said.
“It seemed like they were having a fun time. Christmas Eve, all the kids went to the finished basement to sleep.
“We told the kids to not open up gifts without us and to wake us up when they did.
“This was repeated several times. Once the kids were asleep, we put all the gifts under the tree and eventually went to bed ourselves,” the Redditor added.
However, it wasn’t before long that “Mindy” disobeyed the rules regarding gift-opening.
“The next morning, around 6 am, I wake up early and head downstairs. I find the living room a mess,” they said.
“Half of the gifts were unwrapped. Several of them had been ripped from their boxes.”
There was a clear culprit as to who destroyed Christmas morning.
“There was Mindy, playing with some of the toys. Most of the ones weren’t even hers. She knows how to read and they were all labeled, so she knew this,” they said.
“I was in shock. I went and got my brother [and] Sally alongside the rest of the adults. Sally was super embarrassed. My mom was very upset.
“The other kids weren’t up yet, so we tried to salvage what we could while Sally talked to Mindy.
“Not everything could be fixed and she had broken a couple of toys completely. The broken ones weren’t even her own toys.
“Luckily, not everything was damaged and even the boxes that were, the kids didn’t notice.
“But my nephew (sister’s son) had one of his big gifts destroyed and he was sad when everyone else got theirs while he was told he’d have to wait for a new one to come back in.
“Sally and my brother reimbursed everyone,” the Redditor added.
Although Mindy apologized, Jazzlike-town7686 decided to implement a new rule for Christmas.
“We’re all preparing to go to my parents’ again this year,” they said.
“I put in the group chat that we should either lock the door to the living room this year or put a gate around the tree so no one can get to it.
“I didn’t even name names, just specifically said ‘no one,'” the Redditor added.