To insist Father Christmas is real until I drop dead?

[johnnymarrr]

My mum has always insisted Father Christmas is real. I believed until I was around 11, despite most kids at school not believing I pretended I also didn't but secretly believed with all my heart, and my mum and dad would go all out for Christmas and it made it SO special.

She still insists he's real now (I'm grown up now with kids of my own and I have 4 older siblings, eldest is almost 40!!) and my mum still insists to us that he is real and buys us presents from Santa 😂

AIBU to do the same for my kids? Or is this really odd?!

He's also real in our house still, my DC are 24 and 21. I always say "if you don't believe, you won't get any presents"

I still put the mince pie and carrot and very large Bailey's out for Santa.

nope hes always real.and even when we found out.he was still real at home.we all new it.but we never said it or acted like santa wasn't coming if that makes sense.

He's real in this house too. I love the magic around Santa.

YABU to even ask, of course he's real. If that makes me odd, hurrah - hand me another mince pie while I get onto PNP.

I am 32 and I still get a stocking and after a 40 year respite Santa started visiting my parents again about 10 years ago. I think they must have been very naughty in that time and must have been put back on the nice list when they started being good again!

“He is real, if you want any presents “

Bribery and blackmail.

• a non Christian prespective.

Of course he is real - I am married to him but he only dresses in his red costume near Christmas as otherwise people would keep stopping him in the street. He has lots of events to attend before Christmas as he goes to schools, playgroups and Christmas fairs.

My siblings and I are 32, 30, 28, 26 and 21 and we still put out a carrot for Rudolph and get stockings...

I am clearly the only one who never understands this thing about Father Christmas ......I do try not to let on ...

Of course he's real, but what's all this 'milk and cookies' business? Maybe just about acceptable in Trump-land, but in the UK it's got to be sherry or whisky and a mince pie. Or two.

Milk and mince pies for him here, carrot for Rudolph too

My children are 51 and 46 and still believe in Santa, and so do I.

Milk?? The poor old bugger needs something to warm him up!

I'm 69, and I still believe. When my kids asked, I always said that he only comes to those who believe...

Elvis isn't dead either. The moon landings were faked.

I have young adult DC and of course Father Christmas is real. We have never had a conversation about him not being real so therefore he exists. He justs changes the stuff he puts in stockings, that's all.

Yip. I'm 42 and my Mum has never told me either.

A so-called friend told my dd1 when she was only 5 that there was no Father Christmas. Dd was distraught.

I had no compunction whatever in telling dd that X had probably been so naughty when she was little (as dd had witnessed, she had form for yelling, effing and blinding in public) that FC never came, so no wonder she didn't believe in him.
Glad to say it worked a treat.
I loathe adults who dare to try to spoil the magic for anyone else's children. They can piously dress it up as 'refusing to lie' all they like. To me they're just killjoy miseries.

Santa IS real. My almost 11 year old insists so. I shall not even consider that he doesn’t exist until she tells me. And when she does she would have to lose Santa’s presents..... so it won’t happen. Ever. Mwahahah! Christmas is alive and well.

She does want to know how the creepy elf got in though.

And if Santa isn’t real, who drinks the whiskey? My DH couldn’t... he barely drinks, he’d be pissed for a month if he got rid of it!

I decree, he still visits us.

I cried last year when I got the presents down for the kids. I felt like the magic was over. Santa still brought me a stocking though so I know he's real. I believe and always will.

Santa is real, don't @ me.

I can't wait till my kids are all old enough not to believe in Father Christmas any more, will save a whole load of faffing about wrapping presents in different paper, hiding lists etc. Plus it'd be nice to get the credit for the great presents!
I don't need Santa to think Christmas is magical. I love Christmas, I just can't be arsed with the fairy tale side of it.

Real here to DS is 19 and 16 - I insist they write letters to Santa or they don’t get presents! They indulge me!

I think adults who don't have to keep up the pretence for kids a bit odd to think a fat bloke in a red suit brings them presents each year but each to their own you loons