To think this is a really weird thing to do with presents?

[Santaslittlehelper83]

So a family member has just told me that every year with the kids Xmas presents they rip off every label from presents that have been given, then tell them that all the presents are from Santa! I mean...wtf. I feel it's an odd thing to do, and also nice for the kids to know who has got them what and to appreciate and thank them for it. I've now written in sharpie across all her kids gifts! AIBU?

Put a label inside the wrapping paper/present saying "Santa doesn't exist, this is from me" (obviously don't call yourself santaslittlehelper 😂)

I always called friends and family Santa Helpers. Gifts from mom and dad of course were from Santa.

They must be very young to believe that.

The Santa business has become really out of hand in recent years.

That's a good one. You'd have endless MN parents down on you like a ton of bricks if you did that!

Stockings were from Santa - everything else is from the named present giver - DH/I or family and friends

This is how the Santa thing was ruined for me as a child.

I remember being about 6 and a family member dropped off some presents (labelled) I saw one marked for me and it was a very distinctive shape(sort of triangular & bobbly).
When it was delivered by Santa (with label removed) I twigged that I'd been sold a story. 😞
I didn't let on of course-didn't want to risk the presente!! 😬

My friend had to explain to my godson that Santa had to remember all the children in the world, so he would probably only get nice "little somethings" from him, when he blithely told her that she needn't worry about the eye-wateringly expensive wishes he had, as he would leave all that to Santa, leaving them to get little bits and pieces....
he genuinely thought that was the kindest way to spare them expense.

I really don’t understand that… also I wouldn’t be buying her kids pressies. Or I’d give it to them after Christmas lol.

In our house Santa gives one pressie. It’s the one thing you really really want. All the other pressies get bought by me/DH and we send them to Santa who delivers them on Christmas Eve. If other people buy them things they are just put under the tree and they open them on Christmas Day.

SPOT ON

Can’t believe you’re so outraged that you would write your name with a sharpie 😂😂 everyone does Christmas differently. If you are that upset by it don’t give the children gifts. Not something I could get worked up about.

Hard agree.

A few small gifts from Santa, main gifts from parents.

I absolutely cannot imagine accepting gifts from others then pretending to my child they were from Santa!

So rude and also quite a large risk to take. Just one 'Did you like the dolly I sent you?' and the kid's Santa dreams are over!!

Why? Not being goady but is it so there is more volume of gifts from Santa, is it a financial thing? A cultural thing, or just how you were brought up yourself? Do you not feel it's rude for the family members/friends that have put thought into that gift? I get that you ask permission, but they may feel awkward about saying no.

Everything was from Santa when I was little, it was the same for DH growing up too which is why I imagine no one has objected to it.

It doesn’t feel rude to me at all but again, it’s also what I’m used to.

Stockings of token gifts from Santa, presents under the tree from family etc. I hate the notion my kids would go back to school and boast what Santa brought them and some kid whose parents cannot afford it got SFA.

Also as others have said why should the big man get all the credit? X

If they are young enough to believe in Santa, I find it hard to believe that after 2 weeks they will go back to school perfectly remembering who got them what. Surely they just say what they got? Not necessarily from who.

I don't mind Santa taking the credit. Eventually, they find out who has really done it all. That's good enough for me.

This.

My other rationale is it makes the transition less of a shock when some do and don't believe, to me it's just what works for your family and what people grew up with.

With the ages in this house it works better for us this way

This.

In our house they know who every present is from. We just say they send the presents to Santa and he delivers them. That way we still do Santa and people get recognition for getting the presents. But each to their own I guess.

Yeah that’s what we’ve said pretty much.

My mum used to tell me family members had sent presents to FC for me which explained the tags

In my house all presents are from santa and they get one from my, usually Pjs, books, sweets and club gear. They also get gifts from family, which are from family. Think it would be strange if they saw me wrapping and giving gifts to other family members and then wondering why family members didn't give gifts to them. Santa gets all the credit in my house, and I get them a surprise of a 'big' gift each year- last year was a quad bike, and santa got the credit for that too. I just think that we only get a few short years of them believing in santa, so why not let him have the credit because it doesn't be long before they know it was us all along

The magic of Father Christmas lasts much longer if you go with the stocking/sack approach; separate wrapping paper, duplicate stocking already filled, Santa hat for creeping into the bedroom Xmas Eve. 🎅
Ours all believed until they were around 11 and we thought, we really need to drop some hints.

What I don't get about people who have all the presents from Santa is that don't the kids worry why their parents and literally none of their family buy them a present? Don't they get to school and their mates are saying 'my grandma bought me a new scooter etc.' and are they wondering why their granny hasn't bought them anything? I find it really strange.

Tradition here is that Santa fills the stocking but presents are from family! Because we love them and wanted to buy what they'd like etc.

Why is it matter why they do it? It's their Christmas, just let people get on with it and do your Christmas your way.

As long as the parents are thanking people for the gifts and teaching their kids to say thank you etc THE OTHER 364 DAYS OF THE YEAR, then why on earth does it matter if little kids have a few short years of thinking Santa got them gifts one day of the year?

Honestly just do your thing and let others do theirs. Why does it matter?

So your kids think that friends and family and Santa get them lots of nice presents, and you just give them PJs and sweets? Hmm.

As for keeping the magic because they don't believe for long, if Santa fills a stocking it keeps the magic, knowing that all their wrapped presents are from you, and other family/friends doesn't stop them believing.