To ask you to clear up Santa for me?

[Waltermittythesequel]

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.

I'm from the UK, Santa brought me presents in my stocking and often an additional sack. After, I had presents under the tree from family.

Here in France, Santa brings all presents for all family members, meaning there is nothing under the tree until he brings it all in one fell swoop. I find it really annoying as presents don't have labels but you can roughly work out who bought you what, yet can't say thank you directly as it ruins the illusion for the kids. You have to do a load of winking and meaningful 'thank you Santa'ing while maintaining eye contact with the right person...

In my family for a start its Father Christmas not bloody Santa.

And he only fills the stockings, all the wrapped presents are from other people.

Everything my parents bought came from Santa.

'I think Santa is an American thing.'

MN thinks everything that isn't English is 'an American thing'.

English people say Father Christmas. But I'm not English so I don't.

Don't no a single person that says Father Christmas. Santa is his name

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DD writes to FC asking for 1 or 2 things. FC brings stocking fillers plus the 1 or 2 small things (this year dinosaur slippers and a dino book). Everything else is from people and those people need to be thanked.

Santa doesn't deliver family presents in my house. The stocking comes from Santa and the other presents from whoever bought them.

In Ireland he's called Santy...none of that Father Christmas stuff for us

I'm Irish too and we do it as walter describes.

I have to say that I absolutely hate 'santy' though.

I am 41 and we always had a stocking growing up, and we don't spend anything like scarlet has stated, nor do most people we know, so it probably depends on where you live?

Dcs get a smallish present from us, as well as main present and stocking from Santa, I have spent around £100 on each of them, with maybe a few more cheap stocking fillers to get.

I am starting to get peed off that Santa gets all the credit, though. I get the impression that ds1 thinks we are a bit stingy.

I tell him that Santa makes a lot of the toys but has to buy the electronic ones, which explains why he can't ask for a PS4.

As a child, FC filled our stockings with things from him, and populated the tree with presents from everyone else. He was also an arbitrator with the power to withhold your most wanted gifts. I knew from a pretty young age that this was a bit ridiculous and unlikely, but you know what? I didn't care. I still loved Christmas.

Presents that appear in the house on Xmas morning are from Santa. Gifts handed over by friends / family over the course of the rest of the holiday are from them.

This of course leaves a question over whether mummy and daddy are giving anything like every other day of the year

ludog my skin crawls when i hear anyone say Santy and I'm Irish! Wonder how that ever came about. We've always said Santa and only know a few who use Santy