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To ask what you you tell your children about how Santa gets in when you don’t have a chimney?

94 replies

Faerie87 · 23/12/2018 20:42

We never had a chimney at our childhood home and my dad always use to tell me that when you don’t have a chimney, then Father Christmas takes some roof tiles off the roof and gets in the attic and then comes through the hatch in the attic!

I remember one year when there was a really bad storm on Christmas Eve we lost some roof tiles and our attic door was blown open! It was very memorable!

What do other people tell their kids or what did your parents tell you?

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Wanttomakemincepies · 23/12/2018 22:21

Sonic screwdriver. FC is a Time Lord. That's how he gets round world in one night. Sleigh is a tardis. He regenerates which is why he is still alive.

Kittykatmacbill · 23/12/2018 22:41

He’s magic, he just can!

mindgoinground12 · 23/12/2018 22:44

Wasn't there a film where Santa has this exact problem so uses majic, to magic a chimney.

Rufusthebewilderedreindeer · 23/12/2018 22:47

showmeshoyu

Grin

Magic key here faerie

Rufusthebewilderedreindeer · 23/12/2018 22:47

mindgoing

It certainly happens in the santa clause movie

Soconfusedbylife · 23/12/2018 22:49

Magic key! We saw Santa yesterday and he said this is a common problem. He suggested I draw a key and both children colour it in together, then they sellotape it to the inside of the door and he can touch the door and magic it open. He’ll lock it on his way out too

AnotherPidgey · 23/12/2018 22:50

Magic. He can squeeze magically through keyholes, letter boxes, narrow chimneys etc

He has to have the mince pies and drinks because resisting the friction of travelling around the world so rapidly (despite maximising efficiency of the world's time zones ) uses a heck of a lot of calories Grin

Faster · 23/12/2018 22:51

My mum left the front door unlocked and he flipped the latch on his way out. I checked before I went to bed to make sure it was definitely unlocked. So it was definitely true.

BlackeyedGruesome · 23/12/2018 22:53

Depends.. hovers out side the window some years and comes in that way. Or through the door with a magic key.

EndoplasmicReticulum · 23/12/2018 22:53

My son insisted on buying a magic key when we went to a Christmas shop the other day.

So F.C. can use it to get in. Apparently it's like the President's Key (from Gravity Falls) can open every door.

Marmalady75 · 23/12/2018 23:02

Another magic key here. We hang it on the Christmas tree so that the fairy lights power up the magic.

MoonlightBringsSanity · 23/12/2018 23:05

We make a Santa key and leave it outside the house. It’s all part of the mince pie routine..needless to say the kids don’t care a jot about the mince pies- only if Santa has a way in to drop off their gifts! 🙄🙄

EverythingsDozy · 23/12/2018 23:05

We do Christmas on Christmas Eve. FC knocks on our door and the kids hide in the kitchen

QueenofmyPrinces · 23/12/2018 23:06

He comes through the cat flap in our house Grin

alansleftfoot · 24/12/2018 08:10

Father Christmas had a magic key in our house and we talked to him through the bathroom extractor fan !

ToffeePennie · 24/12/2018 08:14

We have a magic key that gets sent to us on Christmas Eve (uncle Ben brought it this year) which we hang outside our back door. Santa couldn’t land on our roof anyway because mummy and daddy sleep in the attic space. So instead he lands in our back garden and uses the magic key.

IamChipmunk · 24/12/2018 08:22

I just told ds he was magic. Although we do also have a Santa key that we leave out.
We moved into a new build in the summer which has an extrenal chimney on the roof but no fire place anywhere and one of the first things ds (4!) Said was ooh a chimney for santa. Closely followed once he had been inside by 'but where does the chimney go mummy'!! So we settled on him just being magic!

Taffeta · 24/12/2018 08:27

Santa comes in through the loft and then leaves a Skittles trail from the loft door down the stairs to the tree, of course!

desperatelyseekingcaffeine · 24/12/2018 08:33

But what's the point of leaving a magic key inside the house?! Once he's got the key he's already inside. I just told my 5 year old he's magic so will find a way (unimaginative tired parenting!)

PossiblyPFB · 24/12/2018 08:34

We live in a new build & have no chimney/fireplace. However bizarrely we all have decoy chimneys attached to the rooves of our homes- when dd asked I pointed them out & asked her since we have no fireplace, why else would they put a pretend chimney on the house unless it was especially for Santa? Smile

CaptainsYuleLog · 24/12/2018 08:39

Magic key worked for us.

WelliesAndPyjamas · 24/12/2018 08:39

I don’t think we've ever lived with kids anywhere with no chimneys but the questions has been asked of us by the dc, in the interests of fully investigating the powers of Father Christmas 😄 we have always referred them to an much-watched and much-loved episode of Noddy (of the late 90s/early 2000s series) in which the whole matter is properly explained. Involved shrinking dust and keyholes 👍👍

dementedpixie · 24/12/2018 08:41

We hung the key on the outside handle of the back door

Mother196 · 24/12/2018 14:18

A magic key that fits in everyone's door

Storminateacup1 · 24/12/2018 14:19

Through the letterbox hahaha!