Important reminder re Santa

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KabukiNoh · 24/12/2025 22:00

AIBU to remind you to go put the stocking presents in your kids’ rooms? I can feel the post-Christmas-Eve-party-hosting-wine-induced lethargy setting in. Those stockings seem so far from my sofa right now. There’s been so much trauma over the years from that unreliable Tooth Fairy character. Surely Santa won’t let us down…

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MammaTill2Pojkar · 24/12/2025 22:37

Must say I loved waking up to a heavy stocking weighing my legs down on Christmas morning though, so it is a bit of a shame (I had a freakishly large stocking, at least twice the size of my sisters' ones 😅).

MammaTill2Pojkar · 24/12/2025 22:35

My eldest asked me to take the stockings out of their (shared) bedroom as he was worried Santa might wake him up! I happily agreed, they will be waiting on the sofa for them in the morning 😄

EdithStourton · 24/12/2025 22:22

We decided that the stockings went by the fireplace when DC1 was 6.
So much easier than hanging around till midnight and then risking waking them up...

katmarie · 24/12/2025 22:19

Stocking are downstairs under the tree for exactly this reason. I learned from the masters (other mners )

Sillysoggyspaniel · 24/12/2025 22:19

My kids are a bit scared of Santa. Another excellent reason to have stockings downstairs so that he just "pops in" rather than stomping around the house 😂

Ineffable23 · 24/12/2025 22:06

Stockings go in the living room precisely to avoid this madness.

Squarestones · 24/12/2025 22:06

Ours are always downstairs partly for this reason but this year a god awful mix of tweens just young enough to believe, egged on by teens wanting to stay up late, none are in bed. Can't put any presents out yet. Exhausted and fed up of in law stresses, when can I go to bed ?!

Pancakeflipper · 24/12/2025 22:04

Our stockings go round the fireplace downstairs. Putting in them bedrooms is asking for mayhem

randoname · 24/12/2025 22:04

My DC are in the pub and their unfilled stockings on the hearth, but yes, point taken!
🎅

mumofoneAloneandwell · 24/12/2025 22:03

There’s been so much trauma over the years from that unreliable Tooth Fairy character

namechange3651 · 24/12/2025 22:03

😂 This is year 2 of the stockings being downstairs for this very reason, and I’m never looking back!

MaybeNextYear2026 · 24/12/2025 22:02

She doesn’t have a stocking, thankfully! She has would never sleep if she did!

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