To ask you to clear up Santa for me?

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What's the deal with Santa in the UK? Or anywhere for that matter.

In my family we it's:

Kids write to Santa.
Santa brings the presents they ask for, made by the elves, from Santa and only Santa.
Santa also fills stockings.
Grandparents, parents, aunts etc buy totally seperate presents for the children which are given by them to the dc when they see them.

Dh is English and says that santa only brought stocking fillers and delivered presents from relatives who he then had to thank?!

So, what's the general consensus of what Santa does?

PS Everyone I know and knew as a child did it the same way.

One year we went to MILs a few days after Christmas day and she told the dc santa had been to her house and brought presents but they were all wrapped with tags saying who they were from.

No no no!

Here we have similar to your OP - santa fills the stocking with presents which are a mixture of things which have been on his list and little (cheap) surprise presents (fillers). he also uses different paper to everyone else, obviously .

All other prezzies are labeled from the sender. Parents, aunts, siblings,friends, etc.

I'm in Ireland.

That does help the hypothesis Internal

When I was a kid (south west England), santa brought a stocking, and one gift, I had never heard of anyone where santa brought more gifts, or delivered gifts from other people.

For DD, santa just brings a stocking, nothing else, all gifts come from people (she of course knows santa isn't real and all the gifts would be from us anyway)

We just don't do Santa.

It makes life very easy!

I got a few presents from my mum on Christmas morning and some from my dad and his mum boxing day. I can't remember ever getting anything from Santa, he was just someone in tv adverts and billboards.

DH is English and I grew up in Australia. I'm. It's our houses, and now in our home, Father Christmas brings the stocking gifts. Kids can ask him for anything in their letter but no way he's bringing the bike, it won't fit down the chimney. That will be from parents.

Like a courier? grin

Haha yes never thought how it sounded

Growing up, we never had anything "from" Santa at all. All gifts labelled from who they were from. Santa "made" and delivered them. It was still exciting and magical.

It's also what I've always done with ds (now a teen).

Until I came on mn, I didn't know anyone did any different! Dh doesn't really remember what his parents did.

When I say Santa brings things for the stockings we have a santa sack rather than actual stocking. Not a massive sac by any means but big enough to fit a couple of larger boxes.

Isn't it odd how differently people do it yet children can fully believe for years.

But then, it's only since dh I even knew it was done differently. (He's NW England).

it won't fit down the chimney.

But he's magic!

I never understood why Father Christmas brought me presents from Mum, Dad, Granny etc.

DC will have presents from Santa in their stocking, and I havent thought the rest through!

We're pretty much the same as you, Santa fills a stocking and leaves maybe half a dozen presents. These are piled up on the chair and sofa in seperate piles.
Presents from anyone else are under the tree, with the appropriate tags. These usually arrive about a week before xmas, along with DGranny who stays for a fortnight. These get opened later in the day, well after breakfast anyhow .
It was only last year that we started/remembered to put a present under the tree from us, DC had never really noticed before.

Oh and I was v upset one year because our house didnt have a chimney, but Mum reassured me that he came through the letterbox.

Santa brings stocking bits to everyone, and anyone who says they got an Xbox, a pony, an ipad and a diamond encrusted iphone from Santa is being fed a line from their parents for some ridiculous reason.

I'm Australian, and every Australian I know does it your way.

I hadn't encountered the 'Santa as Parcelforce' until moving to the UK and heard about Santa delivering the gifts from Auntie Mavis etc.

I nw England we are usual folks haha

is being fed a line from their parents for some ridiculous reason

Isn't that what we all do whether it's a stocking or a pony??

In our house Santa delivers everything but he is paid by us, gps etc for the presents. Santa only buys the stocking presents which are small items worth about £25 per stocking.

I don't think my parents did father Christmas when I was growing up, I can't remember it anyway.

I do stockings with small presents that are mostly only a couple of pounds and a main present from Father Christmas and the rest of the presents I buy are from me. Everything that is bought by other people is from them.

I'm Irish and here Santy (Santa) brings the big ticket items, each child would receive art least about €300+ worth of stuff, Xboxes, PlayStations, games, bikes, iphones, tablets, higher end toys etc. Stockings are just a recent thing in my experience, some say they're from Santy, some from parents.

Aunts, Uncles, Grandparents etc buy separate presents for each child.

I read on another thread some child only getting one thing from Santa, that's practically unheard of in Ireland, even really poor working class families will spend hundreds on each child.

We got our one big present from Santa (bike etc) It was always unwrapped. And a small stocking. Everything else was labelled with who bought it obviously the biggest majority from mum & Dad.

I remember being horrified and puzzled when a school friend said she got nothing from her parents but a ton of stuff from Santa but Santa didn't wrap anything so everything lay out unwrapped.

I took it for granted Santa just had no time to wrap presents but couldn't figure out why her parents never bought her a single gift

FATHER CHRISTMAS! I can't get my head around saying Santa at all.

Growing up FC was an obvious euphemism for Mum and Dad. So i would suggest i like something and get a theatrical wink and get told in a funny way 'weelllll WE'LL just see what Father Christmas brings to you, if you are nice to Mummy ' I never thought for a moment people thought FC was a real thing till i came on MN. No one i knew believed it. All our parents were the same. All presents were from M&D and FC if mentioned was more of a delivery person.

It is making it really hard because DH was very different and genuinely believed till quite old (and says Santa) and DS1 is 3 but he hates the idea of FC already (can't understand why we can't just give him a present, thinks the concept is preposterous and a bit creepy and his inner health and safety inspector says the roof is too slippery ) so i'm unsure whether to stress it or just be non about it.

Everybody does it different santa brings all my boys presents from us to them we don't buy them and send them to him like some families do the only confusion is that we only have a small family my parents give mw monet to get the boys presents from them so I tell them this pile of presents is from grandma and grandad and dh stepad also gives them money so I say this is from grandad tom,so they no they get separate presents from grandparents and my sister gives them presents .

Father Christmas fills stockings with little toys and sweets, plus the traditional pants, orange and pound coin. That's his thing. And you don't insult the man by sending him a list of demands; he's been watching you the whole year and he'll give you what he feels like giving you.

Parents and relatives buy presents that go under the tree.