santa presents??from others?!!

[crazygal]

right ok,im from another country,and in work the other day ia asked the girls what they were getting there children for christmas from santa? they all said one maybe two toys.....i asked is that all?(i mean,they werent much)
they said, well,friends and relatives get them stuff from santa....
i asked,what do you mean??they said all the gifts others get are put away from there childs sight untill xmas morning,and the child thinks santa brought them all!!!!!!
i asked them,dont they get to "thank" your friends and relatives for the gifts they purchased? they said well yes coz it says on the tag that they asked santa to get it for them!!!
im finding this realllllllly odd!
were i come from in ireland,santa was seperate from everyone elses gifts,
and thats the way i continue to do it,
is this the way it is done in the uk and other areas?

No. They are mad anomalies.

I never had a present off Santa. He just brought the presents from other people. Who I then thanked for getting them for me.

Santa pressies are from Santa (paid for by Mum and dad) and other pressies are from other people.
No mixing them up!

yes thats the way i see it to mummomachine,x

Not in our family. Presents are given to parents and hidden until Xmas morning. Children wake up to a tree with all the presents under it, that Santa has delivered. These are gifts from people, not from Santa, he just delivers them.

I have never known anyone who has done it any different way either.

I knew some people like that when I was little. Its one of the things that made me realise Santa wasn't real. I'd just get a big present from Santa, then everything else would be from whoever bought it for me. Some kids got "santa presents" from their mum & dad then other presents from whoever bought them (which I always thought ridiculous that everyone bought your presents except your parents. And some people just got all presents from Santa. Which is problematic because people expect to be thanked by children for buying them presents.

It happens, but it's rude and bad form

I've spent Christmases where it's been done both ways - when I was a child, Santa brought gifts separately from gifts from others, but when I spent Christmas with my exIL's - their presents to DD and us were brought by Santa !

Each to their own - I think we get used to the way 'we' did at children and anything else seems odd!

FC brings DD one present generally - not wrapped up, laid out and ready, left next to the tray where DD has left FC's drink and snack.

All other presents are under the tree and labelled with tags saying who they are from - me and DH, grandparents, family, friends, etc. Some are under the tree before Christmas and some arrived under the tree on Christmas Eve.

When I was younger many presents were delivered by Father Christmas on Christmas Eve - FC can sometimes be used as a delivery service.

And the pressies under the tree are for other people- not for us, we exchange gifts as and when we see people

when we woke up we had lots of toys from santa,
the run up to xmas,friends and relatives brought gifts to us,so we knew they were from them,santa was seprate....

Yanbu. It's frickin' weird

Father Christmas brings some small stocking toys, useful things like pencils, nice socks, choc coins, bubble bath.

Presents from family and friends go under the tree and thank yous are sent after xmas.

we always as children had to say thank you to everyone who sent us gifts,funny how it is done in different areas/homes

bonkers!

All our gifts are directly from the sender and our children thank the sender directly. Santa takes responsibility for a small sack of goodies delivered on xmas morn.

I have bought Santa presents for my DN's.

However, my IL's don't really do Santa (non-white British, yes they do celebrate Christmas just not the Santa present bit!) while it's half the fun for me (white British). Plus, DNiece has ASD and SIL has quite enough on her plate to fuss about Santa presents as well as everything else. DNephew is 4 and just started school, so will be disappointed and think he's been naughty if there's nothing from Santa - so there is going to be an administrative error whereby his stocking is delivered to my house and brought up on the day! They will be getting small toys and sweets in their stockings, plus a big present each from DP and I.

All this has been done with the full agreement of DP and SIL - and MIL and BIL - before any purchases were made!

Under normal circumstances (ie DNiece not needing 24/7 supervision and SIL not having been recently forced into single parenthood to 2 young children ) I would most certainly be backed right off as SIL is more than capable of organising her own children

Father Christmas brings the main present off the list and stocking. He also brings a teeny Birthday present for DS whose birthday it is that day.

Apparently Father Christmas makes a mistake every year and delivers presents to MILs house and SILs house too DS did say that was silly cause FC knows where he lives ... and we always make a point of saying thank you to MIL, and to SIL when we see them. for their presents

I know one family who do it that way, I think it's bonkers [hgrin]

i do get were you coming from with the delivery service...(a bit)
at work,they couldnt explain that to me,x

Santa only brings the presents that me and dh have bought and everything else is from that person i.e. grans, aunties, uncles, etc

My family is from Ireland. All our presents from family came from santa.

wow really kladd?thats interesting!
never heard of it from ireland till now,or untill i mentioned it at work on saturday.....so were you told it was a delivery service?

Father Christmas brings presents, some requested and some surprises. Dc are aware that FC will not bring everything they ask for, but sometimes he'll pass on a request to another person who wants to buy them a gift. This gift is bought and wrapped by other person. Simples

It must be regional thing- everyone I know has seperate family/friends and Santa pressies.