It was around the holidays where my older brother josh and I were in deep trouble.  We were both excited and ready for Christmas and for the New Year. Though when Christmas comes along josh and I get into trouble by snooping around.  It was the month of December and weeks till we could open our precious gifts. Our parents would buy the items we wanted and would find places to hide the presents from us children. Every year us kids would make a long list and send it to our relatives and friends hoping they would at buy something we wanted off the list. But this year josh and I knew that we probably wouldn’t get the items we wanted because our family had a budget and we probably went over the budget a lot. Most items were not in the budget and were a lot over so we were thinking that we wouldn’t receive the items for that precious day. It was now at least two weeks till when my brother and I were watching  TV and we were talking when josh asked the question soon to get both of us in trouble. He asked me about how we probably weren’t receiving the gifts we wanted so he came up with a way to know. We snooped the whole house and found our gifts. We opened them carefully not knowing about how we were spoiling the whole purpose of a present.  We saw at least four or less presents that were on the list but some that we hated and questioned our parents purpose for it. It was the week of and we even called our relatives and anomalously asking our gifts asking them to splurge and that we were dying to have those things. The day of Christmas josh and I opened the gifts we knew and somehow my mom knew they were already opened seeing the torn tape and wrapper. She noticed how when like somehow knew which ones to open first and which ones to open last. When the relatives came one aunt threw us under the bus and told how we called all of them begging for an item of our choice. My mom was furious and told us that next year we would receive fewer gifts and that we were spoiled because there are kids that get nothing and we had stuff that was expensive and begging for it while those unfortunate kids begged for food. This made josh and me sad to feel that way that we had to apologize in front of everyone and had to promise never to do this again. From now on my brother and I stay away for gifts till it is time to open them because if we get caught my mom says we will have to give our favorite gift to  gift away.