The magic of Christmas is everywhere, but we’re sure this Illinois builder didn’t expect a gift to appear more than forty years later. Just as you read! Forty years have passed since Tim King found a lost Christmas present in 1978… Was Tim really that bad as a child?
Walls with a secret… or a gift!
Tim was renovating his house, in this case, it was the bathroom’s turn. Just seconds before knocking down the wall completely, he took a last look to see if there was anything. And there it was. A dusty, perfectly wrapped box. On the back, a label “TIM”. The man excitedly recounted his surprise when he saw that the package was for him, but it had been hidden in the walls for more than four decades. Specifically, it had been 46 years since the man asked for the airplane game that he then discovered.
How is it going to appear there?
A family tradition explains this mystery: during his childhood, Tim’s parents got used to hiding presents in the attic to prevent him and his sister from finding them ahead of time, so logic dictates that it is likely that at some point it would end up falling and being forgotten behind the wall.
A new family anecdote
It seems that Tim’s mother was very conscious about giving the two children the same amount of gifts, and now, both he and his sister have joked that he has been deprived of a gift for 46 years! This joke has already become a family anecdote that will surely remain on the table at all future family gatherings.
And it went viral…
On December 27, Tim decided to tell his story on Instagram. In the video, he showed the exact moment when he found the gift so carefully wrapped. The post caught the attention of thousands and thousands of users of this platform, reaching more than 35,000 “Likes” at the beginning of January. Many users also began to share Christmas anecdotes in the post.
Stories like Tim’s highlight the power of memories, and not only show the magic of Christmas, but also a special and emotional connection with a past full of loving and nostalgic moments. And although as we grow older we like Christmas a little less when there are not enough people at the table, these small events strengthen the ties with our own history and the memories of our relatives.
And the fact is that Christmas is so magical that it can bring back a gift from Mom and Dad 46 years later, as if it were a time capsule that takes you back to your childhood, to the moment when they went to the store, chose the gift, and lovingly and excitedly wrapped it up, waiting to see the excited face of their son when he opened it, believing that a man with a white beard and dressed in red was coming into the house to leave the presents. A piece of that excitement was transported, of course, to 2024 when Tim discovered that package on the wall. Who wouldn’t like to relive that excitement of our childhood Christmases!