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

[DomesticGoddessInTraining]

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.

We also get the children their big presents and santa gets the stocking fillers - I'm not having him taking the credit for the bike / scooter / dolls house / whatever we decide to get them this year!

DS is 4 so this is the first year I think that he will really get it.

There was a similar thread on here last year and the general consensus was that stocking fillers come from Santa and big presents come from family. This way it solves the dilemma of
a) mummy and daddy not buying anything and
b) Santa bringing their friends much better stuff and therefore Santa must like them more

Santa gets the stocking and the big present, the odds and ends are from us. Ex Doesn't do this though when it is "his" year. I keep thinking DS will ask one year why Santa only gets small things at Daddy's and Daddy buys loads compared to at Mummy's where Santa gets good stuff and Mummy looks tight!

I think this will be our last year of full belief though. DS is almost 8 and looks a bit sometimes about it all.

I made the mistake when ds1 was a baby to make him a Christmas sack for FC to put his presents in when he comes down the chimney as well as a stocking.Now with 3 boys they all have their sacks and so FC brings the big presents. Dh is very disgruntled by this saying that FC gets all the credit!!!! Also we now have the problem that both older boys still believe and ds2 in particular thinks nothing of asking for an expensive gift from santa expecting it to be no problem.

Big stuff from us. Small stuff from Santa.
Santa delivers everything although he sometimes gets muddled and leaves presents at GPs houses too.

I'm trying to work this one out too - have previously done lots from FC and one small thing from us but from this year I think we will do one 'main' present plus stocking from FC and some books/a board game from us.

Anyone else starting to think it'll be easier when they know

Absolutely bigchris! And the joke is that within 2 or 3 days after Christmas they prob won't have a clue who brought them what anyway!

Isn't it amazing how long children will believe for despite it being done differently in everyone's household?
I do remember that one of the things that finally convinced me he wasn't real (when I was about 24) was that I got little things from santa and a 'big' (wasn't usually very big) present from my mum and dad but my best friend got a BIG present from santa and nothing from her mum and dad.

DH's family got the main thing from santa and everything else from whichever person but he didn't have any problems with us changing it to how I did it as a child.

There is no Santa. Presents come from us.

We do:

Santa = stocking presents (and it's a small stocking so pretty much full once you've got a toy car and an orange in there
Everything else = from whoever they're from

I remember when I was little thinking that everyone else did it 'wrong' if Santa bought their big presents - but then I started being judgy very early!

I was always a bit at people I knew who had pillow cases at the end of their bed instead of stockings (we had my dad's old fishing socks and I still use them )

Now packing little presents tightly into the stockings is half the fun of Christmas Eve.......

DH is happy to go along with any 'tradition' I throw at him as he seems to have a very hazy memory of the details of his own childhood..........

sizeable stocking and big present from santa

also 'big' present from us.
Plus the siblings buy each other presents.

Santa fills the stocking all other presents from the named person. It was really important to me otherwise there is huge inequality in what Santa brings to different children.

stockings from father christmas, a few other small bits and always a new annual- this year ds1 has dr who, ds2 has ben 10 alien force, dd1 has peppa pig and dd2 has timmy time

I forgot about annuals CherryMonstersUnderTheBed. We always got a selection box and an annual in addition to our stocking. I think my parents thought that the chocolate and annual combo would keep us in our rooms until a more respectable time. They were wrong!

DH always had a pillowcase stuffed full of tat wee presents, but I don't think we'll be going down that road.