To ask Santa or Parents

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Just a curious thread really.

At Christmas who do you tell your DC/DSC brought their presents.

Santa/Father Christmas or you their parents? Or a mixture of the two?

We give the main presents, FC brings the stocking of smaller presents.

This always amazes me - how many presents do people get from other people??

We give one present. Rest including stockings is Santa.

All presents from Santa in our family and from St Nick on the 6th.

Not 100% we'll have an actual stocking, but we'll see.

The stocking presents are from Santa, anything else is from us or family.

I don't have my own children but when I was little all presents were from mum & dad/ relatives. They told me they bought them and Father Christmas would deliver them.

@Camomila @CheshireChat this may be really ignorant but... 6th Jan? Please educate me.

Big thing, few small things and stocking from Santa.

Big thing and some small things from parents.

@FluffyMcCloud the presents that arrived in the night were from Father Christmas.
We then got separate presents from grandparents and we gave presents to my parents, between sisters etc - and they gave them to one another. Same as @NaughtyNoraTheNamechanger it never occurred to me to ask why we didn't get anything from our parents - I guess we just felt so lucky to have so much from Father Christmas and grandparents that it just didn't even cross our minds!

As others have said stocking from Santa and others from us.

I like this as it gives a limit of literal size so it managed expectations. My dd invented her own rule this year that you can only ask for one thing from Santa - he might add other things like PJs or hair bobbles but he might not. That’s the surprise

All big / main presents from Santa, stockings from Santa.
Family and friends gifts are from them.

We don’t buy for the kids at Xmas as we have family/friends to buy for so that’s why Santa brings it all

We have always said that Santa just delivers as didn't want them to think an imaginary man was responsible. I wanted them to know who had actually bought them.

Stockings from santa, one or two wrapped, usually bigger presents from us under the tree. (Not delivered by santa) Christmas is an expensive time, I want the DC to understand that we have spent time and money on them so that they have some appreciation, rather than think it's all just magicked up without any effort on our part.

Santa brings the stocking, everything else comes from the purchaser

@Torsz @NaughtyNoraTheNamechanger I'm the same as you two (I'm pretty sure). Everything was from Father Christmas (the presents that appeared during the night) - nothing from my parents. Grandparents, aunts/uncles etc would then buy presents which were from them & were thanked.

All big /main presents from Santa, stockings from Santa. Family and friends gifts are from them.

Same. This is much more common in Ireland than U.K. seemingly.

Christmas is all about the man in the red suit.

We get a fair amount from other people too or should I say the kids do.

Both sets of grandparents spend £100 on each kid. Auntie spends £40. Uncle spends the same (both have no kids). My Nan (their great nan) spends £30. My auntie another £20 ish
They also get a few presents from our friends with kids and we buy back so that’s over £300 alone each from other people before we start buying.

We did all presents from Santa until the Christmas when DS was 6 and, when asked by his TA what he'd got from Mummy and Daddy, replied "Nothing" (this despite the story always having been that we sent money to Santa to pay for the presents). After that it was around half to 2/3 from us and the rest from Santa.

@LaurieMarlow

I’m from the UK, England.

I feel the same, Christmas Day and the presents is all about Santa. They will know when there older it was me so il let all the credit go to the magic of Santa while I can.

Everything from Father Christmas here, it was how my family always did it when I was little.

My children know that everyone celebrates differently particularly as many families in my area don’t clebrate Christmas at all.

We’re in England. And of course gp and any other gifts are from them.

All presents from Santa here (except those from family and friends, the ones that appear over night I mean)

When. I was young FC bought stockings and maybe a selection box. Family bought the rest and we knew who to thank (and that we wouldn't get big gifts just for not being an arsehole and staying on the nice list, but that our parents worked bloody hard for them).

I fully intend it to be the same for my own DC (expecting first in 2019). I actually don't much like the whole Santa idea so won't go out of my way to make it too "real" anyway

Seems like it's about 50-50 then - and people generally choose to do whatever they experienced as a child, which makes sense! ☺️

Seems to be different in Ireland.
Everything comes from Santa including stocking.
Then you get presents from friends / relatives when you see them over Christmas.

Presents are from us. Santa delivers them.