7. Check The Trash
The Americans call it trash; the British call it rubbish; the Greeks call it home. What I call it is a treasure trove of clues leading towards the identity of presents. Hopefully if you are taking notes from this guide then you have a strong stomach. For this step you will have to wait for your parents to return home with shopping that they explicitly tell you not to look at. Some parents will be naive enough to just throw the receipt immediately in the garbage, allowing anybody to get their hands on the desired information. However, the more savvy operators will dispose of receipts and any other unnecessary packaging completely unaware to the children. If this has happened, then when you have an opportunity, you dive into the filth and search, in the vain hope of locating the list of bounty that your gifter has plundered from the stores. And with any luck, at least one of them will have bought you some body wash and a new set of clothes after this grim experience.