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Which Christmas presents come from Santa and which come from you?

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DomesticGoddessInTraining · 13/10/2010 12:59

Do your DC get presents from you as well as from Santa - if so, what comes from who?

DS is only two, but I'd like to start as I mean to go on and wondered what everyone else did.

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Iklboo · 13/10/2010 13:01

The 'big ones come from Santa and the obligatory Xmas game and a couple of smaller ones come from me and DH, but Santa picks them up from the shop and delivers them for us.

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DomesticGoddessInTraining · 13/10/2010 13:05

If anyone is feeling festive, please come and reply on my presents from Santa thread

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DomesticGoddessInTraining · 13/10/2010 13:05

Didn't mean to post this here obviously

Thank you Iklboo!

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DebiTheScot · 13/10/2010 13:11

We do it the other way round. Santa brings little odds and ends that fit in the stocking. The bigger presents are from us. I think it's important for them to be aware from a young age that presents cost money and we don't have an endless supply of money.

But last year ds1 (he was 3 then) asked about it all after people saying things like 'so what do you want from santa' and me saying 'if you don't behave santa will see and won't bring you presents'- cue him saying 'but santa doesn't give me the good things anyway'.
So I told him that santa watches how he behaves and knows what he wants and tells me, granny etc what to buy him.

Iklboo · 13/10/2010 13:15

Yeah - I worry that DS will think we're cheapskates, but it's the Way It Was Done in DH's house when he was growing up. I stopped believing when I was about 5 (THANKS cousin).

Hulababy · 13/10/2010 13:17

In our house FC brings one main present. Last year it was a scooter. It is either wrapped in different wrapping papper from the others, or sometimes left set up - depends how busy FC has been and the shape of the gift :) We don't do stockings.

Christmas Fairy brings new PJs or nightie on Christmas Eve.

exexpat · 13/10/2010 13:20

Stocking fillers from Santa (not that they believe any more - aged 7 and 12), and all other presents from named adults.

I don't see how you can have big presents from Santa - how does a dolls house fit down the chimney? Also we do stockings at home and then all other presents at grandparents' house later in the day with the rest of the family - I don't think Santa would deliver to two different addresses?

(and on a practical level, hiding little stocking fillers is one thing, but big presents are much more likely to be found.)

DuelingFanjo · 13/10/2010 13:21

Stocking is from Santa, all the rest are from family. Isn't that the usual way of doing it?

Iklboo · 13/10/2010 13:22

Exexpat - you're assuming we have a chimney Santa can get down . He has his own special key he lets himself in with. I've often heard him swearing as he tries to assemble garage/fort/bike in time for Xmas morning.

lizziemun · 13/10/2010 13:24

All presents come from us. We have to send Santa money and wrapping paper and he makes/decides what presents he delivery.

SleepingLion · 13/10/2010 13:27

I'm always amazed when I read these threads that the bigger/more expensive pressies come from Santa in some households - I thought that it was usual that Santa filled the stocking with little gifts, sweets, etc and the children realised that it was actually family and friends who put all that thought, care and money into the bigger gifts!

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DomesticGoddessInTraining · 13/10/2010 13:28

Surely it's magic exexpat?

Hulababy - I seem to recall that Santa left any big presents unwrapped for me (especially those that required any complex assembly!).

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Hulababy · 13/10/2010 13:28

exexpat - magic key here; Sheffield council pass one onto one of his assistants every year at their special Christmas weekend event. Also all gifts have magic dust on them anyway in order to make them small enough to fit on the sleig - how else would they fit on, even if just a stocking size? Sometimes we have found magic glittery dust on our gifts on Christmas Day.

Sadly DD doesn't really belueve any more. She is 8y and was scepitcal last year of how everything could be done, and has said as much this year - but in her heart, through what she says, she wants to continue to believe the magic and the pretence for now at least.

bigchris · 13/10/2010 13:30

Dh insisted that stockings from Santa big present from us
when i was young stockings and main prsent was from Santa
there was an outrageous thread last year when all the presents had to be from fc and op was mad that her inlaws wouldn't bring their presents in time to be there on Xmas morning

Hulababy · 13/10/2010 13:31

SleepingLion - in our house we send FC the money for all gifts sent. FC uses his money t treat children of families with little money or no growns up to care for them.

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DomesticGoddessInTraining · 13/10/2010 13:31

My niece is at that stage Hulababy - I think she's still a bit worried that if she says she doesn't believe she might not get anything!

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SuzieHomemaker · 13/10/2010 13:32

I'm afraid we never 'did' Santa (DCs are now beyond this). DD1 got frightened by the idea of some random stranger coming into the house so we came clean and said that he didnt exist. We did say that she wasnt to burst the bubble for anyone else and she was a lot happier.

Whocantakeasunrise · 13/10/2010 13:33

In the words of my ds (5) Santa brings you the present mummy and daddy can't afford!!!

I.e. he brings the big/main present.

Until my dd was about 5 I didn't buy presents from us just from Santa, until she started sadly saying 'I didn't get any presents from mummy and daddy for christmas'!!!

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DomesticGoddessInTraining · 13/10/2010 13:34

I might have to search out that thread bigchris! We definitely want family presents to be from the family - we usually visit family over Christmas/Boxing day and DS will get his presents then and be able to say thank you.

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ProfessorLaytonIsMyLoveSlave · 13/10/2010 13:35

Presents are from whoever they are from. Stocking presents mysteriously turn up overnight and are assumed by DCs to be from Santa.

Hulababy · 13/10/2010 13:38

All DD's othe gifts are wrapped, bought and labelled by the people who have bought her them. Thank yous are done appropriate;y.FC doesn't get that credit.

However we do try and ensure all gifts are at our house in advance of christmas, to be opened on Christmas morning. It was the way it happened in mine and DH;s homes when we were little and it works well for us. Noone has ever had an issue.

I wouldn't want DD opening gifts before Christmas.

NormalityBites · 13/10/2010 13:40

Santa brings stocking and santa sack presents (all things that could have been made by elves - ie no brand names and a lot of homemade stuff!)

Everything else is from us and family.

Friends of the family used to insist EVERYTHING was from Santa, and we had to take their DDs presents round in secret, to arrive under the tree on Christmas Day.

They would take off tags if we put them on and of course we were never to refer to the gift again, just ask what Santa brought

FiveGoMadInDorset · 13/10/2010 13:42

Stockings from Father Christmas, everything else from us/family and friends.

bigchris · 13/10/2010 13:43

Normalitybites - that's shocking!

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DomesticGoddessInTraining · 13/10/2010 13:43

Thanks for all the replies. I should get back to work really, but will confer with DH later.

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