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

[Faerie87]

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?

My then 3 year old told me Santa uses the boiler flue when we no longer had a chimney.
Now he uses the AC vent.....

We also have a magic key, we got it from a Christmas fair with a tag on it with a little poem on it. It's quite cute! We hang it in the porch on Christmas Eve.

We had a big glittery key that hung by the front door. Only Santa could make it fit the lock. Magic.

We have a large antique key and the fairies (because they are small enough) come in, shrink the key to get it out, enlarge it, give it to Santa and he uses it to come in. That's what my DD told me anyway - we still have the key on our coffee table.

Special key

A man told me that Santa comes in through the front door because my parents leave it unlocked on Christmas Eve - 7 year old me told him they definitely didn't as we lived on a council estate....

Helpfully, we found a fabulous victorian key in our attic so we've always used that as the magic key

I did a waffly explanation involving Father Christmas existing outside of space and time and sort of ended up trying to explain string theory, which was pretty awful as I'm not a physicist.

Anyway. Magic chimney/portal thing. We have a proper chimney now so no more desperate explanations!

We leave the back door unlocked and he lands on the lawn.

Magic key which is the truth anyway 😀

We live in a block of flats.

Santa has a key that lets him through the communal doors (like the postman) and then there's a magic key tied to our door handle that lets Santa into our flat.

He leaves the key on the plate that had his milk and biscuits on

Magic key here too. Interestingly DS still wants it out this year even though he is too old. Just in case he says!

Through the letter box - he's magic after all. Although the kids do love the Santa clause franchise for how he gets in - enlarges fireplaces, via radiators etc

My dad tried The 'he has a key that fits all doors' thing in the summer of 1976 when, after having central heating fitted that spring, I had spent around four months worrying about it and sprung the question on my dad one lunchtime. He was ill prepared for that conversation and I never really bought into the key story. I was the grand old age of three.

We’ve got a magic key that hangs on our Christmas tree until Christmas Eve, when we hang it up on the front door with our wreath

A Santa key.

I've always left the bathroom window open for him before, but DD has now found a magic key that my niece made at nursery and insists that we need to use that.

Yes got an arrangement with Mummy

Can we maybe stop lying to children?

Can we maybe stop lying to children?

Nah.

I always thought a fireplace appeared, like in the Santa Clause

He comes in through the letterbox!

Father Christmas has a magic key, obviously.

Shomeshoyu that is comedy gold right there 

Watch noddy saves Christmas... that will give you some answers.

My DD is a bit scared of Santa so he doesn’t come in the house. He knocks on the door and Daddy opens it. Like the Amazon delivery or when ASDA bring the shopping