I don't open presents until Christmas morning. My family's always had a set tradition: wake up, open stockings, eat breakfast, get dressed, and open presents. A few years, we were able to open one and only 1 present on Christmas Eve, but those years were few and far between.
Any present opened before Christmas Eve is a birthday present, of course. :-D Even then, most of the time, I want until my birthday, the 21st. Ah, anticipation! What a wonderful thing.
Christmas just isn't Christmas without all the presents under the tree. Once all the presents are unwrapped, and the space under the tree is empty, it means Christmas is gone, and I'll have to wait another 11 months to revel in the season again.
Noticed Bethy's comments on what time to get up.. it used to be that we weren't allowed to wake up the parents until 7am. But that was Mom's rule, not Dad's. After the divorce, it was usually just once everyone got up. Last year, everyone was at my Dad's, including my mom... Dad was the first one up, somewhere around 6am, and the rest of us followed soon after. I think my middle brother had to go wake up the other two around 7, because we couldn't wait any longer.
