Husband keeps telling son I bought presents

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Basically ruining his Christmas. Hate it. Mentioned it like ten times today. Effing fuming.

I'm going to need more...

Que?

Does your Dad still believe in Santa? If so YANBU

I’m guessing it’s meant to be DD and he’s spoiling Santa.

What age?

Wait. Now I’ve read it again.... what?

I’m guessing it’s meant to be DD and he’s spoiling Santa

The OP said ruining "his" Christmas. I bought presents and Santa brought presents, it wouldn't ruin Christmas if my husband told my kids I bought presents.

Haha sorry. Meant to say son not dad. Yes, just that. He keeps dropping that the gifts were bought. I am not sure if son heard but FFs. He's such a knob. Such bloody hard work this time of year.

How old is your son? My husband took a couple of years of me kicking him every time he opened his mouth to keep his trap shut. He would stupidly say things like that cost me a lot of money etc. He's caught on now that it ruins the magic and thankfully the kids weren't quite old enough to realise

Melania?

Is he seven? It's marginal at that age.

Evening all,

We've edited to title from dad to son.

Melania?

Yes that would massively piss me off? How old is DS? I mean if he's 12 and just going along with the santa thing for fun then I couldn't get annoyed if he's 6 and still full on believes I would be properly angry.

As a child, I was always told parents, or other relatives, friends etc, bought the presents, and Santa only delivered them. And that’s what I’ve done with my own dd.
Otherwise dc don’t appreciate them, don’t realise people have to be thanked, and may wonder why they haven’t got the latest gadget when their friend has.

Presents under the tree come from the people whose names were in the tags (whether bought or made by them) - perhaps your DH sees it that way too.

Father Christmas brings stockings, not all presents.

After all, with all the family gift-giving that even small DC see on the telly or hear their friends talking about, it would be a bit miserable to think your parents hadn't got you anything.

Can you compromise in future years? Label one tree present (if that is where Santa puts them in your house) as from Santa, and another from you and DH.

My children know that we buy the presents. Santa brings them one present, and us/family buy the rest.

It's a lot easier to explain that way!

How are they supposed to thank people if they think Santa brings everything?

Santa brought everything when they were little that I would have got them. Other people put their names on gifts. I didn't need thanks other than their happy faces and now I can tell them all the hard work that went into it and gain their gratitude !

Fr Christmas brings the stocking stuff, the rest is mum and dad.

My dh does this. Luckily my dd corrects him. I remind myself he's not doing it on purpose, he's just pretty clueless about the whole christmas thing. I live and breath it the whole of December tbf.

We need to know the age of the child

We always do it so that Santa brings some and parents / other relatives brings some.

It does sound like your husband is being an arse though.

We send money to Santa to bring the presents (so a glorified amazon delivery driver basically ) if he ever questions it you could say that?

In fairness I've slipped up a couple of tones today but my DC are 3 and 5 so it's the first year that one of them fully understands so I'm not used to having to be so careful about what I say. May be the same for your DH. How old is your son?

We gave one present in their bedroom off Santa with their stockings. My 5 year old opened his stocking chocolate and said oh we bought these in the shop the other day 😂 and just carried on lol. All the other presents downstairs were off us and other relatives. Maybe try and agree how you're going to do it lol

He is nearly 7. And he is somexcited about the santa.thing.